Coloured Chaaracter Turn-arounds

Alright, so after a long time comin', the COLOURED character turn-arounds are finished. These are the colours that will be used in the film.

Finished Environments!

So after weeks and weeks i've finally finished all of the environments. Jazz and I have basically worked out a strategy called 'The Master Shot', which is basically one shot that enables us to zoom in and use different aspects of it for the environment, thus saving us lots and lots of time re-drawing unneccessary backgrounds. I've designed the other environments for the shots that had different angles or different environments. I've used the final texture over all of these backgrounds, which is hopefully what the finished product will look like, but before post production we'll just be using the colouring and putting the paper texture in later. SO here are all the finished backgrounds.

Animatic...almost done!

 

An almost finished animatic. We re-arranged shots, cut out shots, added in shots, and basically did enough to cut our film down to the length we wanted it to be with it still being readable. Although the sound still needs to be added and the timing adjusted, we're pretty happy with it. We'll start animating this week/next week hopefully. Ben is working on the layouts while I am working on key framing a few shots. A new schedule is in the making for each shot as well.

Animatic with Sound

Hopefully final character colours!

Alright, so i finally did a colour change of the old lady. For this i used a linear burn texture over the whole piece set on 54% opacity. I just changed the colour of the pink on her dress from a very intense to a very vague, light pink, which i think works well. I like the drabness of the other two characters, and how they contrast with her cheerful colours. These colours were unsaturated, which i believe still works better than the completely coloured, pictured below.

This is another unsaturated texture, this time with a multiply layer instead of linear burn. I've also basically drawn an enormous white circle from the centre and changed it to linear burn. The difference from the first picture is very subtle, but once you compare them it's an obvious change. It was Simon's idea to do it, as he thought it looked a bit flat and if there was a certain colour change that kind of 'cascaded' out of it, it'd give it new life and depth. I'm pretty happy with this one.

Character Colours in Environment

I re-coloured the characters together, and placed them in the actual evironment to see what all of the colours would look like together. This color of pink for heather was new, as Jazz pointed out that she imagined her in a pinker dress. The colours of Rich and Joe were also Jasmine's colour  picks from the sheets. I've done a few mock ups of each, changing the saturation etc.

 The saturation was toned down for this one, and i think it actually works a lot better with the background. Not so sure about the colours working with the background though.

These were some of the colours i chose. I obviously was in favour of choosing drab browns, but i think in this case it works better with the mood of the overall shot.

The saturation was turned down for this one, and although i may be biased toward the colouring, i think it works best with environment colours overall.

Finished Character Colour Sheets

 The colour sheets were a lot of fun to do, and it's been about 6 weeks in the running where i've been pestering jasmine if it's finally time to do them. I got the green light. Keeping in with my usual style of colours i did mainly murky greens, reds and browns for Joe. The colours were also put down to about 15% saturation because we're thinking of having minimal colours for the film as well, just to try them out. I personally like the second from the right with the brown jumper at the top.




For Richard i chose a few more colours on the palate. There were purples and turqoise and blues thrown in there, all very toned down mind you. I took a lot of influence from google imaging businessmen attire, and found that a lot of em wear light purples and camp kinda colours. I still think the first on the left works best, as it's simple and straight forward. much like richard.




Heather Rose was probabely the hardest to colour, as i was trying to find those old lady coloured dresses, but also make it not stand out too much. I think the yellow or the brown works best in this film, as it ties in with the rusty kind of colour and feel of the movie as a whole. Although i played around with purples and lime greens, i just don't think they fit this kind of film. I gave a few of her glasses rose and yellow tinges which was a lot of fun, maybe to signify that we was stuck in a different decade?