Summary of the process

Ink and Paint process

Summary of the process

The Ink and Paint process is made up of the following two lines of production:

Color styling

Inking and painting drawings in one or more levels.

This is shown graphically in The production process. Note that you must first scan your drawings and image process them; only then can you start the Ink and Paint process.

Color styling

The first step in color styling is for your color stylists to:

Create a color reference model.

: This holds one or more drawings, to demonstrate how to color the level(s); and one or more palettes of ink and paint, which you'll use to do the coloring.

Then they must:

Choose the colors for the palette(s) in the color reference model.

Ink and paint the example drawing(s) in the color reference model.

Initially, each model only needs to have a single example drawing, and a single palette. You can add extra drawings and palettes to the model later on, or change the colors in its palettes; this won't undo any of your ink and paint department's work.

Inking and painting drawings

For your ink and paint department to start their work on a level:

You must have scanned the drawings into the level, and image processed them to create the regions for inking and painting.

Your color stylists must have prepared the relevant color reference model.

Your ink and paint department choose colors from a palette in the color reference model, using the example drawings as guidelines; they then apply the colors to the drawings' ink and paint regions. They can instead have Animo 2.0 automatically paint a drawing; they simply choose another already-painted drawing in a similar pose (e.g. the previous drawing), for Animo 2.1 to use as a guideline.