Here's the final trailer featuring my paintings turned into scenes with special effects, weather, and parallax. The goal was to create a teaser-trailer for a movie.
Here are some sketchbook lighting studies from life I did for the project. I mostly used candle light so that I could learn to replicate night lighting in a pre-electric era.
This is a closeup of Death's gondolier. She drives the gondola and collects the souls of the dead for Death. She wears red and controls a cloud of mosquitoes because she is the personification of malaria. Malaria was a problem in the swampy lagoon of fifteenth century Venice.
