Digital Background Painting for Animation
Light It Up!
A course by Susan Yung , Designer, Illustrator, and Background Painter for Animation
Joined January 2020
About the video: Light It Up!
Overview
“Well done for making it to the final step for your digital background painting! You made it and give yourself a pat on the back! Your painting is probably looking near finished, adding that final lighting pass will bring it all together! Let's do this!”
In this video lesson Susan Yung addresses the topic: Light It Up!, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Background Painting for Animation. Learn the entire process of creating digital background scenes for 2D animations in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Light It Up You've made it to the final step. In this lesson, we'll add some lighting to the painting. Let's do this. Well done for making it to the final step of your digital background painting. You gained it. Your painting is probably looking near finished, though adding that final lighting pass will bring it all together, like the thumbnails we've already planned, what the final lighting will look like, so we'll start using those layers that we did in the thumbnails and add it onto the final painting. These layers are to only enhance the painting itself. You already want to get your pai...”
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Course summary for: Digital Background Painting for Animation
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Animation, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Susan Yung
A course by Susan Yung
Since a young girl growing up in Hong Kong, Susan was captivated by eastern and western animations. This sparked a profound curiosity that would send her to art college in Los Angeles, California with the intention to fulfill her dream: working in animation. Although a Design internship at a motion design studio wasn’t what Susan hoped was her first job, it was where she discovered the art of background painting.
Through tons of passion and dedication, Susan got her first job as a background painter at Nickelodeon and hasn’t looked back since. She has worked on animation series for Netflix, Green Portal Studios (Solar Opposites for Hulu), Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, and Cartoon Network.
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