Color Testing

I am trying to determine an interesting color scheme or technique that will blend into the character without drawing your attention to it. I want to avoid the flat "Cel" colors by adding levels of shading as well as textures. To do this in Toon Boom, I am using After Effects to composite all the pieces together.


I might be doing too many things to accomplish this, but I want have a blue jean texture in the farmer's overalls. Then I want to separate the characters from the background, throwing the background out of focus slightly. Here a green color is around the Farmer and Pig and a red color on the Farmer's overalls. The first pass, I'm keying out the red and putting a the denium texture on the level below it.



On a second pass, I am now removing the green background to reveal the background level below. This second pass is combined with other levels as well as the background and rendered out with sound track as a final shot.

Here's the final composite with a blurred out background photo of a farm.