Color Design
/Three years after September 11th (2020) we finally return with a new blog post. The goal was to share our process through the production of Speedman. A lot happen in the last 3 years and I forgot to keep this production diary up to date for the 5 people who read it. That doesn’t mean progress wasn’t being made during this time of silence.
The good news is Speedman is 99% complete! The last few years were indeed very productive. Today I want to make a post that should have been made over a year ago. It’s about the Color Design!
“Speedman used to look terrible”
As Animation was coming to completion on Speedman, we needed to figure out the Color Script so we could start on the final renders. We knew the tone and mood we were after, and we needed help realizing a final look for these shots.
We reached out to Shannon Hallstein who is an amazing Visual Development Artist! She took images of our saddest shots and breathed color and life into them. When you spend years looking at the same temp color in Layout and Animation, seeing actual Color Design applied gives you a fresh eye on the whole project. A lot of the intended tone and mood became visually clear!
Below are some shots we gave to Shannon, and the paint over work she did.
Old temp color
Paint Over
Old temp colors
Paint Over
Old temp colors
Paint Over
Old temp colors
Paint Over
Old temp colors
Paint Over
Special thanks to Shannon for all her amazing work! You can see more of her work HERE!
In the next post I’ll go into how we decided to render out Speedman and why we went for this look.
