Color Design

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For the story, I thought it might be interesting to make the moments where Skylar indulges, or rather, invests in himself to be very saturated, so definitely things like the climax also moments like when he steps out of the house and ignores his mom, or like when he goes "I can almost reach the moon!" and then genevieve's smile kinda goes away, cut to that I'm thinking could be very desaturated.

Moments where "it is not worth it to invest in others" could be desaturated. Moments where she starts to cry after sky yells at her, maybe even when her mom is yelling at her for hanging out with him, or when he falls from the moon and lands among the crowd, I'm thinking especially the end, could be let out very dry and desaturated.

Moments that could be "pastel" or rather, balanced I'm thinking would definitely be at the beginning, the end, where they're on the roof and she gives him the hot chocolate (water, coffee, w/e).

In fact, the entire 2nd act could maybe be a microcosm of the entire story arc. We start with both of these characters lives in shit, in desaturated, boring shit. baby crying, mom about to protest, but then...they meet, colors balance. 

Going into the montage, we can start building up in intensity, and when they start to steal things, or rather, sky starts to steal things, that represents a saturated indulgence, so we go full saturation there, building to a foreshadowing of the climax where he can "almost touch it!" and bang! we go desaturated as soon as genevieve gets on screen. Where, maybe even genevieve herself represents a piece of the crowd.

Then we go back to normal colors when she gives him the suit, because they're investing in each other, safe, home, etc.

For cool idea colors, Kuler rocks:

http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30

you can even copy the HEX code straight from a color you may like and input it into photoshop. They also have that craig mullins option where you can grab colors from a photo, or a "leaf" and make a color scheme from that.

So yeah, just some thoughts on art directions. Also...are we doing this in flash? or what?

Also, can you upload your character designs? Want to go Shane Prigmore on this thing and really start thinking about what the character would do and not what we THINK the character would do, remember Henry Selick: "That's it! that's her! That's Coraline!"