Alex's Block 2 Blog – Visual Narrative Unit and Informed Practice Unit

It took me a long while to work out how to colour the way i wanted to in toon boom. With a lot of trial and error. I wanted to colour the same way as my turnarounds with three shades of each colour, Dark, Base and light, but all under the outline. Unlike photoshop which i am used to, you cannot create a colour layer and use the art from a different layer to fill in with a paint bucket. Both the fill and the line art must be on the same layer. With a bit of research, i found there are subsets of layers in each layer., the more simple version that i used having a line art, and a colour art layer. i didn’t realise before i painstakingly filled in each frame with colour so i had to go back and painstakingly UNfill each frame too. I transferred the line art to the colour layer in vectors, meaning the line is 0, leaving no gap. i filled in each character on each frame, on the colour layer, only to realise the block colour obstructed the shading layers from being seen in the onion skin meaning i had to go back and unfill the shapes AGAIN. I finally landed on the method to draw the shadow and light contours before filling in the gaps with the base colour. You can see me doing that on the photo above.

Here is my final line art and colour, all without a background for the moment.

I’m not sure what the white lines are on the sides of the car, it must be something to do with the transparency of the image. I will try to export the animation as a PNG sequence.

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scene setting group project

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Post date 24th May 2022
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Victorian Gothic Photography

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Post date 23rd May 2022
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Cameras during the victorian period were all made with light exposure technology. A glass plate was coated in chemical, and slotted into the back of the camera. Light would flow through a tiny pinhole at the front of the camera and expose the picture onto the glass, imprinting the image. This would take a long time, the exposure time varies depending on sunlight conditions of the day. People having their portrait taken would have to sit utterly still to avoid blurs. Mothers who wanted single portraits of their babies would cloak themselves in blankets to hold them still while the chemical was being exposed. This resulted in some pretty strange photos. Some are less obvious than others but it seems hilariously creepy to me that someone is stealthily disguised in the back of every baby photo.

Living Voices

Post author By Alex Hill
Post date 11th May 2022
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