Chesca Hause
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Making of "A Change in Perspective"
🕑 Added 2019-11-08 16:07:13 +0000 UTCThe big challenge in this one was to not make Fran look too cold. It's supposed to be an innocent enough exchange between parent and non parent friends -just the idea that Fran's "seen some things".
I started with the "WAAAAAHHHH!" coming from the TV, but we were worried it might be misinterpreted as crying coming from the baby monitor. When I removed it, it left a gap, so I shuffled the sofa over to the left. I was going to move the bottom panel too, to match, but I liked how the "camera" moved to accommodate who was speaking.
I messed with the fox's expression a LOT. I wanted her to look like she'd just considered how hard being a mom must be for her friend to say something like that, maybe tinged with a little bit of "Oh shit. That might be MY life one day!" Turns out that range of emotions are impossible to do in a single frame and she just looked like she was being judgy. Instead of risking the misinterpretation, I fixed her eyes back on the TV.
The shadows were a lot of fun to do! I color the characters and backgrounds in the correct colors before adding the shadow layers on top.
The foreground characters have 2 layers of purple shadow, one at 50% and one at 25%. I do most of it on the 50%, but sometimes it looks a little too harsh (eg on lighter colors) so then I use the 25%.
The background is 2 layers of a less saturated purple -the more painty shadows on the walls and sofa and then the sharp shadows on the characters and couch. I duplicate all the characters lines and color layers, merge them, color the whole thing purple and then take one character shadow at a time and distort it, getting wider the further away it gets. Here are the 4 shadow layers by themselves so you can see how they work more clearly:
