Visual Storytelling with Color and Light

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by Michael Humphries

Type: Didactic
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
Keywords: aesthetics, color, lighting
Publishing date: 2026 (June 01, 2026) (Upcoming)
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English

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Paperback • 280 pages
10 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches (26 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-86067-7

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Book Presentation:
Create visually-stunning backgrounds that stand out.

Visual Storytelling with Color and Light teaches background and concept designers in animation and film the skills needed to create visually stunning and professionally appealing pieces. In the world today―where digital is considered king― the importance of traditional media and the skills attached to them are often overlooked.

Visual Storytelling with Color and Light offers behind-the-scenes secrets of standard-setting practices used by some of best that the animation industry has to offer. Michael Humphries provides step-by-step techniques that will help readers better understand color theory, composition, and lighting. He shares common gouache techniques and then show readers how to develop their own style, and how to create a piece to match the studio exec’s dictated styles. This book also displays practices to help take readers’ paintings and backgrounds to the next level with Photoshop interventions and enhancements.

• Learn the traditional techniques of background design to further enhance your work with computer animation
• Ample demos and step-by-step examples to give you a better sense of how to create and enhance your own artwork
• Contains beautiful, yet practical imagery to not only give you technical guidance but to also inspire your own artistic creativity

About the Author:
Michael Humphries has had a distinguished career in animation as a background artist, visual development artist, and art director for many of Disney Feature Animation Studios films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Great Mouse Detective, The Rescuers Down Under, Brother Bear, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Fantasia 2000, and The Princess and the Frog. Michael was also nominated for an Annie Award as the Production Designer on Sony Pictures Animations first feature length animated movie Open Season.He resides in Pasadena California where he teaches entertainment art at Art Center College of Design.Please visit his website at: www.michaelhumphries.net

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