Chapter 7: Colour Styling and Colour Models

Colour styling and colour model

Once the characters, props and locations are designed, it is time for the colour styling and colour models creation. This is when the colours and moods are determined. The line models created during the design step are painted and organized as colour models for the colourists.

Harmony has a great concept of colour palettes. Each character can have its own set of colours that is carried through the entire project called the master palette. If the master is modified, the colours in the entire project are updated simultanously.

By doing the colour styling in Harmony, your master palette will be created at the same time, so you do not need to use third party software. Also you will not have to recreate the colour palette again in Harmony. It is possible to create this step in an external software, but it is a great time saver to do it directly in Harmony.

Throughout this chapter you might notice slight differences between your interface and the images used to demonstrate the procedure. This is because the images are taken from Harmony Stage. Draw is a subset of Harmony Stage.

To create the colour style and colour models, follow these steps:

Preparation
Working with Palettes
Colours
Painting the Model