ABSTRACT
Some production artists create a monochrome-values version of the shot first. With the color concepts done, character designs complete, animatic established, and layouts finalized, it is time for an animator to create a color script for his/her film. Essentially, a color script is a small-size, colored-themed strip of each scene that animator's film requires. When complete, his/her color script will look somewhat like a colored picture strip that represents in linear format all the color, light, and mood changes contained within his/her film. It is possible to create a color script at any stage in preproduction. Working through each of these images on a scene-by-scene basis, the entire color script for the film is created by joining the individual frames together sequentially to create a long image strip, or even in a colored storyboard format. If dealing with distant, perspective shots, delineate animator's planes with varying color values as much as possible.
