During the inception of this project, we knew that we wanted to do it in color. Of course, the problem that was posed was what colors should we use? We knew that the most important theme to capture was summer, and so the challenge was figuring out how to capture summer with a limited palette.
AV Cris jumped in with some strong takes on color. We started by collecting color palettes we liked on Colour Lovers as inspiration. We started realizing we loved BOTH super bright summery colors and darker hazier night colors.
Laying it all out, we realized we had an overarching theme - the colors of water, the sky, and the sun throughout the day. During the day, the crisp color of the sky with the blue-greens of water, reflecting the bright yellow of sunshine.
Then, the deep, cooling colors of the night sky.
Gabi did color tests but coloring in sketches she’d done before of the characters, to see if the colors worked. As AV Cris kept reminding us “Just because it looks good as a swatch, doesn’t mean it actually works on the characters!”
