A wellyboot of animated happenings

Layouts: Above is a sneak peak of my double pan layout! (I decided to do that apposed to 2 separate pieces) It's come from a storyboard from the Penryn 800 project, in a sequence where Peter Mundy walks through Russia and wanders into a camp of Samoyed people. I used mountains in the background to add a sense of scale and drama to the scene. The style for the actual animation is fairly flat and 2D, so I tinkered around with the perspective a lil'. Below is the panel from the storyboard showing what was worked from to create the layout above. 

Backgrounds: I decided to base one of my final painted backgrounds on a storyboard I jotted down a few weeks ago set in a remote fantasy land. My photoshop skills have definitely improved since the beginning! I got the hang of creating shadow and a sense of mass, ultimately I went a bit mad on the smudge tool but I'm sure I'll get bored of it soon.  When it came to colouring I wasn't sure which angle to take - the tones in the top picture are what you'd expect a fantasy land of this nature to look like, but that bugged me. I didn't want to fall into the trap of the obvious! Below shows the changes I made, the scene seems a lot grittier and the mushroom house roof has become a lot more prominent.