Week 15 & Week 16

These two weeks, I was working on the character color design.
I fell in a struggle that how much should the character stick to the reality. We are told to make the animation believable so the audience can have empathy and follow the story. Yet, there are many reasons that creators may need to break the boundary and add some imagination, such as to need to attract attention and using different colors to let audience recognize different characters.

It is quite difficult to find the balance. Therefore, I found some reference for myself to learn how others deal with this issue.

Ojarumaru image from the Internet.

In Ojarumaru, there are many firefly characters but they have a different color for the body. People can recognize different characters and genders with colors but it does not depend on the real firefly color, except the wings and tails.

This is a clever way to combine imaginative and real color choice together. I was trying to apply this to my design too.