Colouring Helpers Wanted

As promised I made a couple tutorials to explain the type of help I'm looking for with regards to my grad film. I will apologize ahead of time for the sound quality, I did not realized how much background noise my internal fan would cause. And I don't have a lot of scenes animated at the moment but by the time the end of January comes around there will be plenty of colouring work for everyone.

**I would like to have all my scenes coloured by the end of March if at all possible. So if you have a friend, or a friend of a friend who would like to help, send them my way. They don't even have to be in the animation program or at the school for that matter. Just as long as they are timely, dependable, and have a good work ethic.

*Watching the tutorials directly on Vimeo will provide better quality and a larger screen size.*

Tutorial One

In my first tutorial I talk specifically about the first scene in my film and how I want it to be coloured. So far it is the longest scene with the most complex animated sequence. I would not recommend this scene to people who think they may not have a lot of time to spend helping me out, or to people who are not very confident with photoshop CS3 and above. This scene will be very time consuming and will require a basic knowledge of proper lighting. All that being said, if you can do this scene the rest should be a breeze.

Tutorial Two

In my second tutorial I talk about a different scene which is by far one of the most simplest scenes to colour because there is not a lot of character movement despite the fact that this is more then one character present in the scene. This is an example of a scene which should not be very time consuming and would be great for anyone who does not want to take on a lot of work... but it doesn't mean you can be lazy. Even though I myself am a lazy person.

Now it's important that you watch both tutorials because I discuss slightly different things in both of them. But since I've never been very good at making tutorials, so before you start working on any scene you'll probably want to ask me to explain it first. I can either do that in person at school (if we go to the same school), by email (which you can find in my contact information to the upper right...or you can use my other emails if you know them), over Facebook (if you have me on fb), or over Skype (contact info will be provided via email). You can also ask questions here.

Another good tutorial which would help you with the colouring process can be found on my friend Betty's blog. She describes the colouring method for the characters in her film, which varies from my method....it might even be better....but she provides written instructions and screen caps to explain what needs to be done. So if you want further details it is the tutorial for you. 

She uses Photoshop CS5 Extended for her animation while I use CS3 Extended so there will be some differences simply because of the newer software, so keep that in mind when looking at both my tutorials and Betty's.

Also you may find my first attempt at making a tutorial amusing, but you'll have to follow this link: http://vimeo.com/18383881 to watch it directly on Vimeo.

And I was going to talk more about my film in general but I will leave that for another post because I would like to update my animatic again with the new ending. Talk to you guys later.