Photoshop Experiments...

Red:

• I made the same frame size on photoshop to what I would be working on in after effects, to get a feel for the composition and how my imagery could work within it.
• I started with this red print, and made the red printed texture fill the rest of the screen, leaving his face transparent.

• I looked at how I could make the brain bounce around the head, I don't like how you cant see it come outside of his skull.
• I liked the full red aesthetic but it makes the image hard to animate and forces it to stay in the centre of the screen.
• I need to make the different sections interact easier.
• The movements in this are way to subtle for the effect i'm trying to give.

Black:

• I realised that the head worked better as a floating image, without a background attached it.
• The brain could then stretch outside the outlines and gives the warping effect I wanted.
• It would also making moving the entire head much better and can move around the composition however I want.
• I also think it look more interesting having a lone standing outline (not connected to the background) that fits around the brain. Black worked better then red when reduced because its bolder and sharper.
• Im going to make the background colour an off white (newsprint) colour, keeping to the printed theme.
• I want to make sure there is printed texture visible on the face and not to make it too dark like I usually do with my photoshop designs, I want to make the lino quality as obvious as I can.
• I used the magic wand tool to chop the face away from the background, I think this takes away to much, i still want a bold boarder outline surrounding the head, all the outline are floating.

• I chopped the face out leaving a thick outline surround it, This is the face design I will use to animate.
• I really like how the designs works like this, looks almost like a stamp.
• I like the subtle printed texture still visable, and i'm not going to darken it any more than this, although I find it tempting for some reason.

• I dissected up the the face with the polygon tool.
• I had the glasses and eye balls as separate movable sections, I think stretching them and rotating them at different rates could give a good effect.
• It would be trippy and distorted, and warp the perspectives of the face.

• When chopping out brain sections, I had the idea to make the brain merge into the head a few circles at a time.
• So circles would appear one after the other eventually ending up as a whole brain sitting perfectly inside the head.
• I didn't like how the brain looked in blue with the black, it looked to mellow. I think the it works better in a vibrant fluorescent colour, its more relevant to the psychedelic concept.
• I think moving the eyes and glasses in synchronisation to the brain, would hint ideas of the mind and vision having a connection, and also thinks gives messages about intelligence which is relevant to Huxley and his experiments.
• I think the most suitable noise to go with the animation will be sound effects, I think a consistent sound track/music would make it too comical. When I want the animation to give a weird and surreal atmosphere to the audience.
• I want to try and create some warpy psychedelic sounds by layering up different types of sounds and syncing them with my moving images.
• I think combining sounds that dont naturally go together could work to mimic the un easy surreal atmosphere of the animation.
• Some of the sounds could be:
• nature sounds, crickets and frogs
• sci-fi sounds, lasers ect.
• glitchy sounds, like tv disruption 
• distorted voices
• possible drum beat that kicks in at points where a lot of movement is happeng