#color scripting

[ancomestrogen]

Color and light analysis of some shots from Nimona :)

[justpickupthatpen]

Color Scripting

Picture books, like animated films, video games, or graphic novels, are sequential art forms. Each painting is part of a larger statement th

[spaceaceart]

Animated gradient progression using the upstairs hallway background. Adding a yellow palette definitely helped ease the transition between red and green, however my old green palette did not mesh well with the new yellow one. I reworked pretty much every palette into something more monochrome, with yellow being the only constant color.

I don’t love this gradient progression. The green just really throws everything, especially since this is supposed to be a sunrise to daytime progression, and green isn’t in that range of colors. The purple and red palettes are pretty much set in stone, and I’d like to keep the blue as it is. I think I’ll do one last palette test getting rid of the green altogether and leaning more towards yellow, perhaps adding more orange to that and the red palette to just marry them a little better.

[aven12]

Made for a color scripting assignment! Super proud of how each of these turned out, hoping to use similar concepts for my senior project! **Please don’t repost/use in any way**

[vsho-dev-blog]

art dumpppp~

[spaceaceart]

Some recolored backgrounds for Part 2, encompassing shots 29-34. In addition to being recolors, some details have also changed from their Part 1 counterparts. The cat toys are gone, the kitchen fridge is emptier, and the living room plant has wilted. If these were full backgrounds I would probably add a lot more to both my Part 1 backgrounds and these, but they’re not supposed to be full backgrounds so this is fine for what I need.

The palette (called Gloomy for now) here might be subject to change, but I like having some blue tones to the gray. The rendering is also softer because the light is more diffused due to the outside weather, and I have yet to see how this palette interacts with my Day palette.

[spaceaceart]

Backgrounds for shots 03-10! I’m getting tired of fighting with my color palettes so I’m taking the ones I do have and just blending them however to get the look I want

Something about my backgrounds as well is that I have a total of 37, but over half of them are reused in later shots with different color palettes. So basically I’ve changed the way I’m scheduling my background drawing. I’m starting with the most complicated ones first, and the ones that are reused the most times. Like the downstairs hallway shot is reused 4 times, so I can essentially knock out 4 backgrounds with one drawing.

I’m still going to prioritize Part 1 backgrounds for June, but I think I could easily get a majority of ALL my backgrounds done before just my Part 1 backgrounds are due.

[spaceaceart]

Color progression

Working through how I’m going to do the gradient shift through the animatic and recycled my test backgrounds to play around with colors

The general method I have so far is to incorporate my lighter colors first, then go darker as the animatic approaches the “main” palette for a given section. This works pretty well for the shift between the Purple and Red palettes, as well as the Green and Blue, but the challenge I’ve discovered is shifting between the Red and Green palettes in the middle there. Red and green are tough colors to blend nicely, but I think the main thing with that is I have too many similar values on that one.

Every palette has 5 colors on it, and there’s a lot of matching numbers on the palette I used for this one. I’ll probably try and reduce how many colors are present or add more variety to the tones and see if that helps.