About palettes

Ink and Paint process

About palettes

A color reference model must have a Painters' palette. This contains the colors used by your ink and paint department to ink and paint drawings.

You can add up to 254 further output palettes. These contain the actual colors that appear in the drawings when they are output to film or video.

Changing colors and palettes

You paint regions by selecting a color from a palette well, and clicking on the region. This makes a connection between the palette well and the region. Whenever Animo 2.0 paints the region, it refers back to the well you chose, and uses its color. (This is why the model is called a color reference model.) For example, below we have painted a region of a drawing with a a palette well named 'dungarees'. The well is pale blue, so the region is painted pale blue:

Your color stylist can change the color in any well at any time; all drawings using that palette - including ones that have already been painted - will then use the new color. For example, changing the palette well to white makes the region white:

Your color stylist can also create new output palettes at any time. These can have a completely different set of colors - say to reproduce special lighting effects, such as night lighting, deep shadow etc. You can then make drawings use this new palette for output, even if they've already been painted. For example, changing to a darker palette automatically repaints the entire clown using the darker colors:

Ink and Paint process

About palettes

Changing colors and palettes