Visual development studies
These are some images from the color script of the film, establishing the tone of the narrative through light and color. From the beginning we wanted to make Elemental very colorful; The tricky thing here was to keep the strength of the saturation while balancing it out so it wouldn’t be too overwhelming. Definitely a challenging task!
These were also an opportunity to study how our characters would behave, one being a light source and the other one see-through! Luckily we were able to find way to stylize them so this was manageable.
There were many variables we had to keep track of in terms of color design philosophy: Ember’s own color which evolves with her mood, the colors attributed to each of the elemental cultures (Fire, Earth, Water and Wind), as well as the evolution of the love story between Ember and Wade among others.