Colour design 101

At the aptly named Colourful Animation Expressons site, Oswald Iten has been writing about colour design and theory including a series regarding Walt Disney’s 101 Dalmatians. He does a great job of highlighting the subtext involved and how potent effective use of colour can be. Many videogames and advertisements are trying to use such techniques now but many movies are really struggling with good colour design lately, either totally ignoring it, or trying far too hard to force chromatic themes over narratives. It’s never too late for us to learn from the masters though, so higlighting and discussing a wonderful example never hurts.