First Background Ideas and Concepts

Here are the concepts for the backgrounds I am going for. Starting with the older stuff to the newer stuff.Below is some reference images for inspiration. Really like Fosters Home for Imaginary friends and the way they use monochromatic backgrounds. I also love the stylized old school 2D cartoon backgrounds. So pulled some reference from there too.




Did a sketch for the first idea of doing an African water hole type setting using the orange color scheme.



Below is an image of one of the storyboards with color. Showing here the monochromatic blues put to use for the beginning sequence. Really want it to be centered around the elephant at first and the blues help to make him pop while making the bird more secondary.