Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life
Colour Palette
A course by Yukai Du , Illustrator and Animator
About the video: Colour Palette
Overview
“Time to design your colour palette based on the mood board you've made in the last lesson. ”
In this video lesson Yukai Du addresses the topic: Colour Palette, which is part of the Domestika online course: Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life. Transform your unique drawings into playful motion graphics with Photoshop, After Effects, and Animate.
Partial transcription of the video
“Colour Palette In this lesson, we'll design our colour palette, guided by our final mood board. We can extract the colour theme from our mood board through Adobe Color. I'll show you how to do it. We can extract the colour theme from our mood board on Adobe Color. This website will select the colours automatically for us. You can see this button here, Extract Theme. From here, we can upload our mood board. Drag your mood board here and automatically the website will select a colour theme for you. It doesn't get it right always, so you can move these pins to select the colours you want from ...”
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Course summary for: Hand-Drawn Digital Animation: Bring Illustrations to Life
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Illustration, Motion Graphics, Traditional illustration

Yukai Du
A course by Yukai Du
Yukai Du is a Chinese-born illustrator and animator based in London, UK. At just 15 years old, she began training at GuangZhou Academy of Fine Arts where she learned to work with acrylic and still life paintings, pencil drawings, and sculpture. From there, she went on to study animation at college, where her traditional art skills were put into practice. It was there that she discovered her passion for creating craft-like illustrations and animations, and she later moved to London to pursue a Master’s degree in those art forms.
After graduating, she worked at various studios in the UK including M-I-E and Bliink. Since then, as a freelancer, she has collaborated with well-known brands including The New Yorker, Spotify, The Guardian, MTV, Adobe, Apple, and WeTransfer. Her work has also been recognized by Adobe Design Awards, 3x3 International Illustration Awards, and more.
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