Digital Background Painting for Animation

Digital Background Painting for Animation

“The final project for this course is to paint your very own Digital Background! To make things a little easier, I have provided a lined background that you can use as your design. That way it doesn’t take away the focus on the painting part. Of course, you are more than welcome to use your own designs! Feel free to play around with how you want the painted background to feel. I would love to encourage you all to try your own take on this. What I have shown in these lessons are tools to help you do just that. It is your turn to shine! Think about what your background would look like if it is set in the sunset, or at night when the interior and signs light up, or even if this place was set in a horror movie, what would it look like? Finding those references that inspire your ideas will help you go a long way. Don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone too, if you’ve never painted a nighttime scene before, try it out with this project! Final line design

Shape grouping Final design color Also, don’t forget to be patient with yourself. Background painting takes a lot of time and tries to get it. It takes lots of practice so don’t be discouraged or frustrated if it doesn’t look the way you want it. These hardships are part of learning something complex so be kind to yourself and take it one day at a time. If you’ve painted a background for the first time through this class, congratulations! Now that you’ve learned some basic skills in BG painting, you can start creating different types of backgrounds and slowly build your own collection of your own work! I really appreciate every single one of you for taking your time to take this course. I am very grateful that I can share some tips and guidance to help you along your background painting journey. I am available to answer your questions as you move along through the course but please be patient, I may not be able to answer your question immediately. I am a working professional, so it will take me a little time to get back to you. There is also a forum provided, don’t be afraid to share your work in progress and ask for feedback from others taking this class. You may find that having other inputs may give you some new ideas that you might’ve not thought of that would be a great addition to your final piece! Be helpful but don’t forget to also be kind! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Thank you so much for accompanying me on this journey into the world of digital background painting for animation. In this lesson, I'm gonna review all the steps we've done in this course so you can start on your project with confidence. Here's the result of my final painting. I'm so happy to share the process with you. Hopefully you found it enjoyable as well. I wanted to guide you through the process of planning a background that required a lot more research. I've also wanted to paint an old tattered gas station in the desert so I thought it would be fun to share those stage...”

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Course summary for: Digital Background Painting for Animation

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (257)
• 7142 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 20m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Animation, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration