What did I do this week?
After doing colour I wasn’t sure if shading was a good idea, I did not have an idea on how long it would take me as I had not tried to shade in this program before. So after some consulting with my tutor I decided to test out some options. I was able to do some consistent shading by doing a stroke on a separate layer (Stroke is an invisible line) using this line as a guide on the colouring layer and darker versions of the Chonker’s colour palette to add shading. The before and after looks night and day and looks far better with shading as it creates much more contrast on the characters as well as matching the background far more as well.
When I was done with colour I moved on to exporting, then adding the final effects and overlays to convey the right ambience that was in my mood-boards. Taking colours from my Silhoutte Mood-board I created these gradient overlays I put over my scenes just to match the lighting (Putting these together in Adobe After Effects). I made sure not to use strong filters that change the colours of the characters too much but just enough to fit the atmosphere of the background and merge them together. Then the animation was ready to render out to a mp4.
What did I achieve by the end of this week?
Shading (Done in Toon Boom) and lighting/effects done in Adobe After Effects. Exported in Adobe Media Encoder.
Overall critique on my work output this week
I am very proud of what I was able to achieve inside the set time frame of the course to create a short animation and I am very proud of what I have created even with a program I had not used before this project, but I persevered and created something amazing out of it.
Full ‘Duality’ Animation Link: https://youtu.be/DtFcMNWd8s0
