Colour/Art Direction workshop – Sue Tong
During this workshop we got a look into the world of colour and pre-production in animation. Pre-production has always been my favourite part of the process and my strongest points. Since the course began in September, I’ve been focusing on animation to rekindle my love for it, but this workshop was a reminder as to why I put a lot of my time to specialise in this. And even so, I picked up so many new things during this session.
We covered the do’s and don’ts of composition (of which the don’ts are few and far apart) and got some tips on colour and contrast and on how to make things more visually pleasing. We learned about the tricks of using warm and cool toned colours to create depth and using colour to add layers to our storytelling process.
These are some of my notes from the workshop:
Colour/Art Direction workshop – Duane and Saffron
During the clean up workshop we were given a briefing on the clean up process and the industry requirements for it. Clean up has always been the most intimidating part of animation for me and listened to Alumnis of this course go into their process and reassure us that everyone feels similarly about clean up and have people to guide them through this until they get a hang of it eased my mind a little. We got to look at some of their works and discuss the process of it. We also discussed in-betweening key frames and did a little brush tutorial on TVPaint.