Working on backgrounds. Again

Trying to decide what looks best. I know I need to go back in and fix the ground issue. I feel like there's way too much brown and not enough green. The grass pieces will look extremely weird just sticking out of dirt...I think anyways. I'm not sure how I want the plants in the foreground to look just yet. I think the semi-silhouette with a little light shining on it is nice. You can see the grass and flowers yet they dont completely distract from the cliffs in the background where I want to the viewers' eyes to go. Once I fix the grass issue and put the rest of my trees in here all I have left to do is add the skeletons here and there and on the right cliff. Then this background can be used for multiple scenes(most of the scenes actually). Started making puppets, so I feel ok about where I am right now.

More progress!

So, there's a lot missing in the foreground and yeah I don't know about that tree being so close the screne. I'll have to to work on that. At any rate, here's my background progress so far. It may not seem like a whole lot but those trees take a while a to make. I made about 11 and I'm wondering if I should make more....do they repeat to much?! Does it bother anyone that there cliff on the right have a very visible line down the middle? I'm thinking about touching it up in Photoshop? Please let me know what you think. I know its not finished but talk about what's there and not what isn't there.

Testing out background

This is not a complete background its just a test of the sky I made in Maya. Not much of an atmosphere YET, but its well on its way.

Dinosaur cut outs I found.

What a marvel concept we have here. Dinosaurs in cut out form. I love it.

So there's no mistake about designs.

And for whatever reason blogger wants them sideways.

Finished animatic.

Well here's my animatic. I plan on redoing it or at least certain parts. It's extremely rough at this point but hopefully the overall story comes through. I realize that the first part is difficult to see, but until I fix that image that's the best quality I have at this point.

The overall story is about the dragon origin and how dinosaurs played a role in creating these mythology creatures. It starts off on a Medieval tapestry telling the story of a terrible dragon that destroys the village, and then it pans over to a skeleton of the dinosaur(the main character). I have so recent changes in whats going to happen next, but a bird flies by and as it flies over the ocean it turns into a pteranodo. She flies to her nest and the babies hatch. I think most of the story is pretty clear from there. The Compsognathus tries to get to them by trying to fly using leaves as wings and dies. After the credits a Medieval farmer digs up the skeleton which ties it back to the beginning with the tapestry and the skeleton there. I think....

Just a little more progress.

Here's a few more examples of process.