{"id":3099,"date":"2010-05-28T05:03:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2010-05-28T05:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:03:21","slug":"bruce-timm-color-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Timm color guides"},"content":{"rendered":"
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hand colored marker guide for the colorist<\/p><\/div>\n

This one is for all you color nerds out there. I was leafing through the Batman Animated <\/a> book and found a few color guides by Bruce Timm from his Mad Love<\/a> comic. There are some notes for the colorist from Timm and I think they’re worth sharing. Remember this was 1994. Timm’s notes read:<\/p>\n

“Basically, I wanted to keep the color as simple as possible. I feel a lot of the new, computer-separated books are way over-rendered, the “Image” books being the worst offenders. In particular I really hate that “hard-edged” gradation that Oliff & Chiodo use so often. Please try to keep gradations as smooth as possible & “air-brush”-y as possible.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hunh. Pretty interesting to think that Timm in ’94 was reacting against Image Comics coloring. Also interesting to think that his way of thinking, that his reaction<\/em> has had its own influence on comics and on animation. <\/p>\n

And beyond that the Batman Animated<\/em> book by Chip Kidd seems to me to be a big influence itself. Dash never stops talking about it. Jim Rugg too. Something about identity or something. Bodyworld<\/a>, Afrodisiac<\/a>… seeing around a character, a setting, a story. Hunh. I feel like Joe Pesci in JFK<\/em>, “It’s a mystery wrapped up in a riddle…!” What does it all mean? It means, the pledge drive<\/a> is over, dear readers, thank you for your support. <\/p>\n

Welcome back to regular programming.<\/p>\n

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Bruce Timm's color guide for Mad Love<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one is for all you color nerds out there. I was leafing through the Batman Animated book and found a few color guides by Bruce Timm from his Mad Love comic. There are some notes for the colorist from Timm and I think they’re worth sharing. Remember this was 1994. Timm’s notes read: “Basically, I wanted to keep the color as simple as possible. I feel a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,100,176,256,1233],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-animation","tag-batman","tag-timm","tag-color","tag-oliff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}