Palette Colour Tests

I've been experimenting with the colours of the panels and what sort of mood I want for my film.

Using the stock photos and the ones I took myself, I made up two sets of colours that I really like. One is quite bold and rich with colour and tones, while the other is more dull and flat. Personally, I quite like the flat colour one because it doesn't give the impression that it's a unsettling or eerie mood, neither does it set a sad and depressing one. With that in mind, the bold colour one kind of disregards cliché weather moods. I will get some feedback on these, and see what they think suits the film best.

Bold Colours. (Sunny)

Flat Dull colours. (Misty)

Changed the hair colours.

Adjusted the filter.

Slightly brighter but no shadows.

Grey filter.

Colour Palettes for possible lighting effects on the river and wall. I think that the sun in this concept is little too strong and I personally don't think it would work with the story and the mood. 

Below is an aerial view of what I want my layout to look like. It's a basic plan, and I will draw the other side later on. But I have also coloured it using one of the stock photos I took from the internet to see what it would look like, however, I don't think that I will necessarily use those colours exactly as I think it looks a bit too dark. 

Sketch.

Coloured.

Colour Hue on top.

AJ and RM designs with colour.

River Man form.

Background Colour palette. I thought that I would keep the backgrounds simple and make them brighter, so I used this image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGMtOdYsniUCYyq2CiW6grbZCjr_YRC4806ETCRh1zmrFs7EbMdMXiV4vOHRQBxzpiFgP8i-U7zTdnS42SQXcek9iT9M0uBLxT3RNDF5QQd1TB23yyj0ZWPOMImIb9HgsWtpQnwtL8kmA/s1600/dawn-at-staunton-caundle-dorset-england.jpg and took the basic colours to create a cut out background that I will use in the shots. 

Blurred (for focus on the characters).

Slight colour change to the characters.

Adding contrast.

Final RM colours

Final Colours (flat).

I slightly changed the saturation of the landscape colours so that they do not appear too bold or bright, as I am going for a dull day. Here shown are the bridge and grass colours as well. 

Proposed (no pun intended) ring design. I may consider asking a CG modeller to make this so as animating will be considerably easier...however, it would look out of place...I'll have a think on it. Watch this space...