Shake a Tail Feather

To make colouring easier for Jo (and likewise to make Jo's colouring easier for me) we were required to put our work through two different Shake scripts.

The scripts were written by Laurie Priest, and made very simple to use.

The first script increased the contrast, and made the lines picked up in the line tester matt black. It also made the backgrounds perfect white, so that to colour the characters, all that was needed was the paint bucket tool in Photoshop. Anything white, however, had to be coloured bright green.

After the frames had been coloured, the frames were taken back into Shake. Anything painted bright green was then colour replaced in Shake to white, and all background was turned into an alpha channel.

This makes layering the final film together much simpler, and makes the colouring process far easier as well.

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