Staging and Lighting

Staging

Staging enables a good composition by creating clarity within a scene to achieve an easier understanding of the overall image and its expressed emotions. The relation of negative space, the area surrounding objects, to positive space, the objects themselves, will enhance the overall composition and readability of the image by guiding the viewer’s eye. (Bacher, H. 2007. Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation. Focal Press)

 Images from Bacher, H. 2007. Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation. Focal Press

Staging with Characters

There is a trick to get the perspective right with characters not entirely in the picture. One must adjust the characters to the character with visible ground contact to make it look correct. Therefore use the horizon-level of the painting and place the new character at the same size relation following the perspective grid.

 Image from Bacher, H. 2007. Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation. Focal Press

Staging with Shapes and Positive/Negative Space

Images from Bacher, H. 2007. Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation. Focal Press

Staging and Lighting to Create Atmospheric Scenes

Images from Bacher, H. 2007. Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation. Focal Press

Lighting

Lighting can be used to tell a story or draw the viewers attention. Basically it is a category of colours as lighting is merely a lighter colour/value to its surrounding. But with the portrayal of different sorts of lighting one can produce very atmospheric scenes and art pieces. Lighting defines the mood of a painting further and can be used as a staging guidance and amplifier. 

Lighting Behaviour on Diverse Materials

Image by Sam Nielson (http://www.artsammich.blogspot.co.uk/)