Elements Animation: The colouring

The Elements project ended at the end of January. But one of the key problems with my final animation was it was essentially not finished. One see in which the grass grows up around the teddy bear was coloured but that was it, the rest was just black and white.

I was advised that I should colour my entire animation because it would be a really nice piece of work to put on my show reel.

It became evident to me mid-project that I would not be able to colour my entire animation. The scene in which I had coloured took a massive chunk out of my time so I knew at that time the priority would be to get up to the desired amount of frames before time ran out. After the project was over I was really happy with it, despite being uncoloured, therefore I was happy to go back and colour every individual frame in my spare time.

The second scene I coloured was the scene in which the grass covers the teddy bear. Colouring these frames took a massive amount of time, particularly due to the fact that the grass grew bigger and more grass strands appeared on screen meaning there was more to colour and more to shade. Towards the end of these frames, each was taking around twelve hours to colour. This process was sped up quite significantly after I moved on to using a cintique and a wacom tablet.