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WIP - Saturation of Complementary Colors?

RARA Posts: 78
in Art Studio

Hello,  I recently watched the director cut of the original Blade Runner. Inspired by Ridely Scott's use of complementary tones, I experimented on a current project. Using Castle del Diablo, I added orange tone to the cavern(s), snakes and roof, lavendar tone to the stairs and the mist and green to the Castle. Attached are a couple of renders.  In the second one I lowered the lavendar until it almost appears grey, for a more realistic stone.

But since this will become a background in an animation designed to set a mood, I am wondering whether the purple stairs would be effective or distracting.

Any thoughts appreciated.

RA

castlle3wfog.png
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Comments

  • TheMonkTheMonk Posts: 43
    edited February 2018

    First image, the stairs look off, and un-natural. In reality many buildings like this are made from predominantly the same materials due to locality (using local resources for ease of transport)

    Second image looks better.

    Depends I guess on anything else you may add to the scene near the building etc. I would personally make teh entire building darker maybe, more like Basalt to lift it from its background and make it seem more imposing.

    However that said, I am a portrait man and am not that flash at larger scenes.

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  • RARA Posts: 78
    TheMonk said:

    First image, the stairs look off, and un-natural. In reality many buildings like this are made from predominantly the same materials due to locality (using local resources for ease of transport)

    Second image looks better.

    Depends I guess on anything else you may add to the scene near the building etc. I would personally make teh entire building darker maybe, more like Basalt to lift it from its background and make it seem more imposing.

    However that said, I am a portrait man and am not that flash at larger scenes.

    Many thanks. I will experiment with darkening the castle.

     

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    I actrually like the color tone of the castle given the effect you are going for.  I think if you go less than the first one on the stairs and just a tiny bit more than the second one it may work more as you intended.

  • ultimativityultimativity Posts: 0
    IceDragonArt said:

    I actrually like the color tone of the castle given the effect you are going for.  I think if you go less than the first one on the stairs and just a tiny bit more than the second one it may work more as you intended.

    Thanks. I’ll try somewhere between the two.

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