Why are some animation sketches purple, red, blue or green in places? Are specific colors used for special things?
— Sometimes it takes more than one pass to complete a scene, some passes are used to clean up or change something, so it helps to use a different color. Sometimes particular jobs are assigned particular colors on a certain project. Like for example, sometimes a production will say “all inbetweens are to be done in blue”. But this is on a production per production basis. If I’m doing my own private work, usually I just use whatever color I happen to feel like using. There are some col erase and prismacolor pencils that are “non-repro” meaning that the camera or scanner won’t pic it up, becuase it’s such a light color of blue. Other than that though I dont think that the color matters.
