backgrounds in industry

role: set the stage and atmosphere, subtextual visual information for viewers/support the story and character

industry role

layout artist–camera angle, composition, make viewers feel grounded, create a consistency

Background painter: takes the linework and render

Skills: advanced illustration skills /extreme attention of styles/ mastery of colour theory

Colour Theory

Mood: set by your dominant and secondary colours/contrast

Saturation: a measure of how pure a colour is.

Hue: simile for the term colour. (eg. the hue of navy is blue, the hue of burgundy is red, the hue of mass green is green): the local colour of a colour.

Tone:

Value: how light or dark the colour is, on a scale to black to white. Make a painting greyscale(B&W)to see the value.

High key (light) vs low key(dark)

3 tone sketch-set the background to key value

Complementary: opposite colours

Analogous: colours which are next to each other

Split complementary

Next Step

canvas: 1920*1080

For Wednesday:

review for your pre-production work. Complete the linework for the background.

can record the process on PDF(which is also for final submission): moodboards, storyboards, animatic, character designs, background style decisions and line art.