This is the selection of colours that I will be working from. It has been produced from the characters that I have all ready designed. However this is not to say that there was no criteria for for picking colours that I used to make my characters. As you can see the colours that are on the pallet are only a few shades apart from each other and they are not pastels. This is because I wanted it to look like a child had made it so I wanted to use colours that looked like they had been made using a felt tip pens.
The idea behind setting a colour pallet seems to be to give you’re work uniformity (something to pull it together) and to give the piece the appearance of production value. However it was pointed out to me that is you look at animations such as ‘Family Guy’ all of the colours that are used in that are all very similar. Limiting the colour pallet that you use also helps the animator to use colours so that they do not stand out from each unless that is the effect wanted.
So all in all limiting your colour pallet can:
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save you money
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make your work seem more expensive
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give your work its own theme
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make you look like you have thought deeply about the idea that you are trying to convey
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and all so like super ted give your work some conspicuously high production values
