a background inside itself (Patreon)

Hi everyone, here's a background for the rat movie! The background also doubles as a frame for the next scene, so to demonstrate, here it is inside itself!

At the beginning of this piece, I did a test animation of a rat in some walls with a background kinda similar to this. Those walls were a bit old timey, like they had stone masonry and dirt floors in them and stuff. Now that the film is underway and I've got more context, I thought that the walls would need to be a bit more modern, so I've revisited them with concrete and chipboard and insulation.

This was a little more challenging to work with, since chipboard and insulation are kind of ugly! And that's thematically appropriate, but we also spend a lot of time in the walls in this movie and I don't want all the backgrounds to be ugly! So I've done my best to romanticize these building materials. Hopefully I've done ok, because there's a lot more wall cavities to come!