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Anna Terruwe

Goud van Brabant animatie. (2018)

Opdracht

Het televisie programma Goud van Brabant, zocht naar creatieve inzendingen over Brabants erfgoed en verhalen.
Samen met Tosca van der Weerde leverde wij deze korte uitleg animatie aan over Anna Terruwe.


Concept door: Tosca van der Weerden
Animatie door: Mijzelf, Louise van Straten

Over Anna

Anna Terruwe (1911 – 2004), was de eerste vrouwelijke psychiater in Nederland. Zij richte zich vooral op het bespreekbaar maken van sexualiteit, wat in haar tijd een zeer taboe onderwerp was.

Het maak-proces

Van storyboard, naar thumbnails, naar moving- storyboard, naar animatie.

Tosca had al snel een sterk kleur pallet in gedachten, waarna we samen de stijl verder hebben uigewerkt. Het is uiteindelijk een soort samenvoeging geworden van beide tekenstijlen.

Toen alle tumbnails netjes en geordend onder de voice-over stonden, kon het animatie werk beginnen.
De animatie is frame-by-frame getekend met wat hulp van Adobe After Effects.

Inspired by Shakespeare

Ophelia

The series

In March 2018, I decided to do a series of illustrations based on plays written by William Shakespeare. The illustrations were one per play and I played around with the composition and framing for each drawing.
For this project, I worked with gouache and colour pencils to give it a storybook kind of feeling to it. Which contrasted with the often dark tones of the scenes.

The project was called ‘Shakespeare week‘ because I tried to upload an illustration to my Instagram page every day of the week of 12 to 16 of March 2018.
This wasn’t the first time old Bill had inspired a project, a year earlier I had illustrated some book covers including one for Macbeth

“What’s done cannot be undone.”

 William Shakespeare, Macbeth

For some of the illustrations I used a lot more light water colours and negative space. I always give myself a hard time because I do not practise painting backgrounds enough but I think in this case, the illustration in the series with the least amount of background are the stronger ones.

I do believe however that I can improve in backgrounds and the use of space. For example, I would colour the stares red like the throne and make the queens dress a bolder colour or make it white to a darker background.

Romeo and Juliet

Final thoughts

Critiquing yourself is not always easy to do. I tent to look back on my work in a very negative way, to only see the mistakes and to hide it away from the public. But what you see is not always what someone else sees in your work and hiding won’t give you more confidence it does the opposite. Part of the reason I choose to revisit this project was to be re-inspired and to learn from myself.

https://www.instagram.com/lovastra

View all my Shakespeare illustration on my instagram page.