Description

The emotional tone of an anime scene often hinges on lighting and color choices. This course dives deep into how to manipulate light and color to craft moods, highlight drama, and guide viewer focus within your anime environments. You’ll study different lighting setups—such as dawn, dusk, night, and interior artificial lighting—and how they affect color temperature, shadows, and reflections. Learn how to use color grading to unify scenes, evoke specific feelings, and create cinematic effects. Practical assignments will help you experiment with lighting direction, intensity, and color overlays, giving you tools to make your scenes more vibrant, moody, or ethereal according to your story needs.

You'll learn how to:

• Apply lighting techniques that enhance atmosphere and realism
• Use color grading to unify scene elements and reinforce tone
• Create dramatic contrasts and subtle gradations with light and shadow
• Simulate different times of day and weather effects with color
• Enhance storytelling with targeted lighting cues and effects