Session 20

Character Color Part III

Here is everything you get!!

-3 Structured HD Video Tutorials with commentary, annotations, and detailed process demonstration: Sirena (62 min.), Calidan (55 min.), and Color & Lighting Principles: Translucency (64 min.)!!

-Explanations and demonstrations on stylization/design process, color approach, and step by step instruction to create characters and their color for game, film and animation.

- Timelapse Videos (3 MOVs)

- Full Res Images (4 JPGs)

- Raw PSD Files, including all layers!!! (4 PSD Files)

-Brush Set: Some of my favorite brushes 

You'll learn:

-to paint believable translucency 

-to build hierarchy in your lighting design

-to push character design, style, shape and appeal

-to utilize local color blockins before adding details

-to use nature as a basis for inspiration

-to paint materials such as: leaf, fin, scales, water, and rock

-to embrace lighting principles and design

-to emphasize volume with fill and rim light

-to paint light direction into form

-to build shapes conducive to appeal

-to reveal form using shadow shapes

-to create a story moment

-to paint characters within a scene

-to light a scene using literal warm and cool lights

-to paint with active and passive color

-to build up a focal point

-to light a scene using an off screen light source

-to balance a design with shape and line

-to create rhythm/balance within your work

-to build a composition from line, values and temperatures

-to conceptualize ideas for an executive or director

-to compose a final "moment" with color and light

-to render complex shapes

-to retain vivid colors from rough to finish

-to add final touches using modes and PS adjustment layers

-to provide the best option for presentation

-to commit to an idea and carry it through

-to facilitate coherent technique throughout a piece