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Color model

Color model

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Color model

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- [Instructor] Another aspect of the coloring process is which colors to use for a character. And, again, the traditional animation studios had a much harder time with this than we do today. We're spoiled today. Back in the day, they would have to paint different versions onto their different sheets of celluloid, so the color model department was a pretty busy department as they were trying to fine-tune the right color combinations for each figure. So we would take, for example, this character, and apply different treatments. And you can see how radically different he looks with different color model approaches. In addition to creating different versions of a character, in other words, each of these different color models really represents a different character. The art director is going to have to pick one of these and settle on it. In addition to that, let's say we settle on the little green man cliche. We might still want to wonder what he looks like at nighttime. And in this case,…

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