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About reference drawings

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A color reference model includes one or more reference drawings, to show how to use the model.

Sharing or adding reference drawings

These reference drawings can either be shared or added:

• A shared drawing remains stored in the level from which it originally came. The color model fetches it from there when necessary. Changes made to the drawing affect both the level and the color reference model.

• An added drawing is copied into the color reference model. There is no connection to a drawing from a level; changes made to the added drawing do not alter any drawings in a level.

The color model drawing

Each color reference model must include a color model drawing; it is always added to the color reference model as a part of creating it. This reference drawing appears whatever drawings you are painting.

It is typically used to illustrate the main points of using the model.

Color model reference drawings

You may also include any number of color model reference drawings, taken from any level. These reference drawings also appear whatever drawings you are painting.

Each color model reference drawing can either be shared or added.

These are typically used to illustrate how to paint a character in a different pose. For example, if the color model drawing shows a front view of a character, you might add a color model reference drawing to show a rear view.

For more information about adding color model reference drawings to a Color model, refer to Adding color model reference drawings.

Level reference drawings

You may also include a single level reference drawing from each level. This reference drawing appears within the color reference model only when you are inking and painting that same level.

A level reference drawing is always shared.

These reference drawings are typically used:

• Where an additional detail for a character in a level has not been shown in the color model, or in any of the color model reference drawings.

In this case, the color stylist can pick a drawing from the existing level and paint up this drawing to demonstrate to the Ink and Paint department how to paint the level.

• To reuse a Color model to paint another level, when the drawings in the level are radically different from the Color model.

In this case, the color stylist can pick a drawing of the character from a new level and paint up this drawing, to demonstrate to the Ink and Paint department how to paint the drawings in the level using the Color model.

For more information on how to nominate a reference drawing for a level, refer to Using level reference drawings.

Using reference drawings

You should be very careful when deciding upon which type of reference drawing to use:

• If you require reference drawings that will always be viewed when a color model is open, you should use Color model reference drawings. These types of drawings will always be shown when that color model is opened in InkPaint. i.e the drawings are color model-specific.

• If you require reference drawings that will only be viewed when the level and its associated color model is open in InkPaint, then you should use Level reference drawings, which are level-specific.

For more information on displaying reference drawings from InkPaint, refer to The Browser window.

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