From the course: Animation Foundations: Storyboarding
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Lighting and depth
From the course: Animation Foundations: Storyboarding
Lighting and depth
- [Voiceover] Don't overlook the importance of lighting a scene. It can really make a difference. Now, there's nothing stopping you from boarding an entire production in line only, but let's take a look at why you should consider the extra step of blocking in some basic tones. Now, in this case, we have our rubble pile of the aftermath of the Martian attack. So let's apply just three tones, that's all you're seeing here, three extra grey tones, and that's on top of the white. So we have white, light grey, medium grey, and dark grey. The dark grey is for the sky, medium for the buildings, and then we have this kind of off-color tone, and just to pick out some depth in the rubble pile. So this lifts the image onto a complete different level. It creates aerial perspective, gives the illusion of three-dimensional space, as well as spotlighting the rubble in the foreground, focusing the eye of the audience exactly where we want it. Here's the same image, and now all I did, I inverted the…
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