So this scene was inspired by this photo that I actually came across on facebook of posts of abandoned areas and places around the world, I felt that this image resembles calmness, however, a calmness which is due to the panic that was possibly happening in the past having subsided.
In a lot of apocalyptic scenarios, a very typical scene is cars being stuck in gridlock and people panicking, although this may have not been what was happening in the photo below at some point in time, it is what I took creatively from the image.
Another childlike response that I have seen in films and sadly the real world in 3rd world countries, children have fun or perhaps even make fun with their surroundings when they have nothing else. I wanted to capture this scene to show how my young character is living in this world which would have once been racked with fear and panic but is now embracing it as it is.
As my animation is set in the future I wanted to make sure my cars were modernized as well as when it came to the number plates to create my own language. Once the car were finished in Paint Tool Sai I then did the same as I did with the buildings and put them into Paintstorm where I added the foliage and dirt effect to age them.
CCH-Animation Degree 