Colour

After being advised by numerous piers that it would be better to not add a wobble to the backgrounds, this meant I was then able to focus fully on the characters, once the backgrounds had been drawn. When it came to adding colour to the characters, I knew I could not achieve the aesthetic I wanted in Animate CC. Therefore I decided to render out my finished scenes as PNG files, which then allowed me to colour them with in photoshop, where I could create the shading aesthetic I wanted!

I found it easier to create the shading and blending that I wanted in photoshop. Although I may have been able to do this in Animate, I was not fully familiar with all of the brushes in this piece of software and really wanted to crack on, so felt it best to colour in the software I was the most comfortable in.

The task of colouring my frames was in itself a very enjoyable and quite therapeutic one. Also the fact that I already had my backgrounds done, meant that I was able to see exactly how the colours of the characters would work with the environments around them.

Because I planned on creating shading and blending on the characters, I knew I needed a colour sheet to use as reference, to avoid the shots looking inconsistent. Therefore I went ahead and created a sheet of colour swatches, which covered blocks & shades.

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