About the style, the traditional Japanese art style is a mixture of colours and patterns. It instantly reminds me of an anime called Mononoke. This anime has an unique aesthetic unlike usual anime which many traditional painting methods were used and texturised the background by old parchment paper.
''The directing and art have been called "boldly confrontational."It blends a murder mystery structure with "twist of supernatural and a shake of historical, peppered with plenty of stylistic experimentation." It frequently achieves "the ideal - great directing combined with great animation." The Mainichi newspaper said it could not be dismissed as a mere experiment, and that the story's themes were every bit as advanced as the digital animation techniques employed.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononoke_(TV_series)#Reception
I wish my title sequence could be partly hand-drawn with Japanese traditional art style according to the content and message behind.
The patterns on the umbrella gave me inspiration to present the atmosphere of the essay. '' Really, what a wretched thing the human heart is!'' this sentence could be visualised with a lonely personal left behind by a group of friends and family in a rainy day, how fragile and mentally weak human is when being alone.
I have also look into different painting techniques of cheery blossom trees. This splashing texture reminds me of the salt effect I have learnt in High school which salt is place on top of the watercolour painting to absorb excess water, beautiful marks would appear after dry out that give similar effects as the picture below. I want to experiment with watercolour backgrounds with salt and possibly with masking fluid as well.
This is more like ink than watercolour, the colour is more vibrant and the strokes brings a lot of rhymes to the brunches and blossoms. However, this might not be useful in my idea as I am not drawing the whole cherry blossom tree in details and painting each blossom is too time consuming.
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