Color Theory

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Interior/Exterior Environments, Personal Palettes

Create an environment, exterior or interior (your choice). The environment must include some sort of signage. The environments in the past have been enclosures or habitations where you live.The signage can include vital

Create a palette, either from your environment after you have created it, or create your palette first, and then create your environment color scheme from that palette. Use at least 25 different colors. The palette can be placed as a compositional element or presented off to the side.

The project becomes clear when you view the macro cityscape online, with the clickable views of micro environments.Procedure for creating a palette in photoshop will be covered in class. You can get colors from images, photos (see simcity images), you can pick them from the color picker, or you can read the hex number from a web page and enter it in photoshop (eboy, find bg) things to cover in demo: picking a color, entering a number in to find a color (eboy, find bg), pasting color into selected areas, copying and adjusting colors with hue and levels to create new

colors -note
tones
scale of color/chroma use (warm and cool - see Tufte, see virtual environment examples)
transparent overlays
scale used in composition
text color




Tenents of the above environment Art Institute California San Diego 2004

under construction

1. Alexis Boadilla
2. Gonzalo Villareal
3. David Gonsalves
4. Charles Bradbury
5. Artur Brzuza
6. Emer Tanciatco
7. Eric Bydlo
8. Robert McQueen
9. Lauren Crunk
10. Tony Malanga
11. Eryn Taylor
12. Ryan Griffin
13. Allison Hull
14. Galia Karamycheva Environment

Sample Game Environments and Colors

Ghost recon	Kelly Slater
(complements)
zoom of previous
	Sims