Color and Light
- Publisher
- Kat Tsai
- Product Type
- Video Course
- Product URL
- https://www.chuwenjie.com/class
- Author
- Kat Tsai
- Language
- English
- Duration
- 21:00
- Release date
- Dec 1, 2023
- Skill level
- Project Files
- Yes
- Product Price
- $399
Description:
Uncover the powerful connections between color, light, and emotion, and learn how to harness these relationships to elevate your storytelling through art. In this 7-week course, students will first learn the fundamentals of color and lighting, and then learn how to break those rules to make gorgeously stylized environment illustrations for feature film development and TV background painting.
Registration begins
SPRING 2024 DATES: January 6- February 17, 2023
TIME: Every Saturday, 2-5 PM PST
Teacher:
Kat Tsai https://www.chuwenjie.com/
Course outline
WEEK 1: VALUE
The fundamentals of value, contrast, and value grouping. We’ll learn about how value forms the foundation of color.
WEEK 2: HUE & SATURATION
The fundamentals of hue and saturation, and how those components interact with value to create appealing color palettes.
WEEK 3: LIGHT & ATMOSPHERE
A deep dive into the ways that light changes our perception of color, and how to compose images with a full understanding of lighting and atmosphere. We’ll learn about different times of day and different lighting conditions, and how to achieve them in our paintings.
WEEK 4: COMPOSITION
This week, we’ll discover the role that color plays in directing the eye and conveying a narrative within a single image. You’ll leave with the tools of how to construct a solid composition using color, and how changing your hue and value structure can fundamentally alter the message of your painting.
WEEK 5: STYLIZED COLOR
With a full understanding of the rules of observed color and light, this week we will proceed to break all of them. We will learn how to create stunning stylized color palettes and how to see colors where they don’t exist.
WEEK 6: NARRATIVE THROUGH COLOR & LIGHT
The finale of the course will elevate everything we have learned into a grand conclusion: how to evoke emotion in a series of images from exploring different moods and lighting. We’ll study color keys and learn about the process of arriving at a color narrative when working on an animated film.
WEEK 7: INDUSTRY CRASH COURSE
A crash course of information in the day-to-day of different industry jobs that focus heavily on color and light such as color design, TV background painting, and feature visdev. You’ll learn about daily routines, the work expected of these jobs, average salaries and my own personal experiences of working in the animation industry.
Pricing:
GENERAL TIER: $399
Uncover the powerful connections between color, light, and emotion, and learn how to harness these relationships to elevate your storytelling through art. In this 7-week course, students will first learn the fundamentals of color and lighting, and then learn how to break those rules to make gorgeously stylized environment illustrations for feature film development and TV background painting.
Registration begins
DECEMBER 1ST, 10 AM PST
Each week's class will be composed of a 3 hour live lecture, demo and Q&A.SPRING 2024 DATES: January 6- February 17, 2023
TIME: Every Saturday, 2-5 PM PST
Teacher:
Kat Tsai https://www.chuwenjie.com/
Course outline
WEEK 1: VALUE
The fundamentals of value, contrast, and value grouping. We’ll learn about how value forms the foundation of color.
WEEK 2: HUE & SATURATION
The fundamentals of hue and saturation, and how those components interact with value to create appealing color palettes.
WEEK 3: LIGHT & ATMOSPHERE
A deep dive into the ways that light changes our perception of color, and how to compose images with a full understanding of lighting and atmosphere. We’ll learn about different times of day and different lighting conditions, and how to achieve them in our paintings.
WEEK 4: COMPOSITION
This week, we’ll discover the role that color plays in directing the eye and conveying a narrative within a single image. You’ll leave with the tools of how to construct a solid composition using color, and how changing your hue and value structure can fundamentally alter the message of your painting.
WEEK 5: STYLIZED COLOR
With a full understanding of the rules of observed color and light, this week we will proceed to break all of them. We will learn how to create stunning stylized color palettes and how to see colors where they don’t exist.
WEEK 6: NARRATIVE THROUGH COLOR & LIGHT
The finale of the course will elevate everything we have learned into a grand conclusion: how to evoke emotion in a series of images from exploring different moods and lighting. We’ll study color keys and learn about the process of arriving at a color narrative when working on an animated film.
WEEK 7: INDUSTRY CRASH COURSE
A crash course of information in the day-to-day of different industry jobs that focus heavily on color and light such as color design, TV background painting, and feature visdev. You’ll learn about daily routines, the work expected of these jobs, average salaries and my own personal experiences of working in the animation industry.
Pricing:
GENERAL TIER: $399
- Admission to the weekly live classes and live Q&A participation
- Access to the class recordings and review sessions
- Invite to the class Discord server community, where students can communicate with me outside of class hours, share educational resources and info, and socialize
- Price per Participant
- $16
