The color of the light is not significantly different, but in real life the perceived color is because of the Purkinje effect. For someone watching a film, this effect would only come into play if the viewer were in a dark environment, and the duration of the night shots was long enough for the eyes to adjust. It makes sense when you're making a brickfilm that will probably be short and watched in someone's decently lit bedroom to apply the effect to the film itself to emulate how the viewer would expect night to appear.

I pretty much agree with consensus on what's been said, but that said, I think you could stand to brighten up the entire shot even though it is night. The important thing is to not have much fill light and rely on highlights from the sides, but you don't have to underexpose just because it's night -- ideally, your brightest areas in a night scene would still be somewhat close to white, for optimal contrast.

Thanks for the critiques, guys. You all really helped me with this and I think the new backgrounds are going to look nice in a film.

I'm going to be working on some other backgrounds too (next up is a cityscape), so I'll post them here.

Well, if you can't, then they should go ahead and ban me, because the frames I posted aren't going to be used in a film, they are just tests.

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This frame is technically from an actual shot from my film, however, the WIP nature of it is the editing that I'm doing to it, and I would appreciate some feedback upon that long before I finalize anything.  I hope I am not amiss in posting it here.

First off, here is the edited frame, it is not the final edit probably, and I might change it based off of what people think of it:

I've tried increasing the contrast and brightening the middle of the frame whilst darkening the edges slightly.  I've seen in some old movies and old pictures that there is sometimes a a dark border at the edges of the frame and I wanted to try to emulate that somewhat.  However, I'm not going entirely for an old movie look, as I'm using a 16:9 aspect ratio and will make no attempt to add the "old film look" with the black lines and such.  But I want to have a kinda happy medium that looks old and looks nice.

Here is the original version of the frame:

I intentionally filmed it with very soft lighting with very little contrast since I wanted most of the contrast to be added artificially.  I've noticed in a lot of old films that the film used sometimes seem to make images have a very strong looking contrast that look to me more like it wasn't because of the original lighting.

For wider shots though I'll have the black edges pushed further to the edges of the frame.  And for shots where the subject is to the far left or far right of the frame I'll shift the bright spot to wherever the subject is.

But what I'm wondering is do you guys think the edit should have more or less contrast?  or should the edges be darker or lighter?

I think the vignetting is good. (That is what you mean when you say "Making the edges darker", right?). I like how the character is brighter and more distinguishable. I can't say that anything needs to be changed, it looks quite nice.

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Good idea!

I have my first commissioned job! My dad is giving a presentation at his work and wanted me to animate something for him. I was wondering if anyone has any tips or advice before I start animating.

The building/piece of paper in the back ground is a placeholder. Also, I forgot about the 16:9 aspect ratio until after I took the picture, so I will be adjusting for that.

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This seems pretty interesting. It took me a bit to figure out what the setting was, but I've got it now. I'm not quite sure about sloping the grass plate. It seems a tad off, but granted, that could be just me. (no pun intended:P ) Hope this turns out great!

Harbor:

I like it a lot! The closeup gives it an intimate sort of feel. Very cool. In my opinion, keying this in isn't all that necessary, as it looks very good as it is. Of course, the final outcome is up to you. Again, excellent.

Also Harbor, make sure to wait until the last frame has gained at least three comments before posting your own frame. Just an FYI.

-Grant

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Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I will keep that in mind.

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