Here is the colored render of the pencil test for the diver. The basic colors used are blue, light blue, orange, yellow, and pink. All the colors came from the color map.
The hight lights are just whites applied to the diver’s anatomy: belly button, notch on lower back, shoulder blade, top of hair, forehead, bangs, top of rib cage, simulated tan lines especially around the bikini. It’s the base color of the canvas bleeding through.
Other factors came into play when coloring the diver. Darker skin and hair tones are just another layer of the same color but at different opacity. A blue filter layer at a low opacity was also used to unify the entire image, then Photoshop curves was used to pump up the saturation of the colors and the darkness of the lines.
There were plenty of problems when it came down to the final product. Colors were lost, frames were dropped thereby altering the timing of the animation, and even the resolution was cut in half. The best workflow for the entire process is summarized below.
WORKFLOW TO EXPORT GIF
- rough animator
- export mov or png files
- so all the colors come out right
- i.e. yellow and pink
- photoshop
- import mov
- apply curves
- to fix saturation and contrast
- 1280 x 720
- export as mp4
EXPORT METHODS
1)
- photoshop
- reduce the file size 640 x 360
- or percent/50
- (less resolution than original)
- change frame rate to 24
- convert to video timeline
- set timeline frame rate
2)
- ezgif.com
- 25 fps
- preserve transparency
- optimize the gif
- 600 x 338
- (more accurate timing than photoshop but less resolution)
3)
- keynote (best method)
- document settings/resize
- 1080 x 608
- (better timing & resolution)
- WHY 1080?
- For Twitter and Instagram,
- the image size of 1080×1080 pixels is ideal.
wrong timing, correct colors overall
