I’m looking forward to more behind-the-scenes info on how colors are chosen and applied. Do syndicates specify a standard palette? I ask becasue I’ve always been impressed by what can be achieved by a limited range of colors. For example, the two-color Trucolor process managed to look good in a number of Roy Rogers films.
Syndicate guidelines run the range from "do whatever you want" to "follow the spec sheet and the CMYK percentages." It is not like Moses is standing over me with the chiseled rules, though. Cartoonists who color their own Sunday features, while I color the dailies, often drift away from their own recommendations. I'll address these guidelines in another post. It may take more than one.
As you know, there are varying degrees of difficulty across the full set. I’ll touch on some of them in future posts after I select some good examples.
I’m looking forward to more behind-the-scenes info on how colors are chosen and applied. Do syndicates specify a standard palette? I ask becasue I’ve always been impressed by what can be achieved by a limited range of colors. For example, the two-color Trucolor process managed to look good in a number of Roy Rogers films.
Syndicate guidelines run the range from "do whatever you want" to "follow the spec sheet and the CMYK percentages." It is not like Moses is standing over me with the chiseled rules, though. Cartoonists who color their own Sunday features, while I color the dailies, often drift away from their own recommendations. I'll address these guidelines in another post. It may take more than one.
64 panels! And you have to be sure that every piece of clothing which is interrupted by a different object carries the right color. Yikes.
As you know, there are varying degrees of difficulty across the full set. I’ll touch on some of them in future posts after I select some good examples.