Ping and Noodle - Colouring and Animation

So far the Beano Project seems to be going quite well. We've set up a little production line where Anna would do the sketches for Ping and Noodle, Tao would line them and separate their layers and I would colour and export as transparent PNG files. This way we can layer up the images in Adobe After Effects and animate each layer individually if we need to.

This is how I've set myself up in Photoshop to colour the images:

I had also done a couple of little experiments in After Effects to see how Noodle might animate but since then Anna has done some nicer animations!

I also messed with the colour in the kitchen scene and so I'm going to spend some time tomorrow trying to tidy it up for the background renders.

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