cool

Squee! So on my watch list now!

Ok, this was very interesting. So you basically put all the shading down in one tone and then change its colors? Or did I miss something? :o

Yup... did all the shading first (For the most part) And then I duplicated the layer... used a gradient map to adjust the colors to what I wanted them to be... then erased what I didn't need :)

I seriously need to try this method one day. Thank you very much for sharing! :D

Jetfire became tiny in Animated...

Whoa...that is amazing...

Wow, watching this in action is amazing. Is this done in Flash? I LOVE the step where you sort of flesh out the shadows and stuff. So epic.

Nope.. it's all an animated GIF XD put together in adobe imageready

what are the layers set at to show the shading through...and is the shading on a normal set layer or is it like darken or something?

I am afraid I am confused at what your question is asking. The layers are all set to normal. No darken was used at all.

I think what was meant was what was the transparency setting for the layers that you used.

I wish I had been able to see you work on this, it is always fun to watch you work. Awesome work as usual. :)

Nice, I see you did the shading first, did you do that as one layer with blue and black/dark blue? or just used the blue as backing or the shading layer?

It was blue the whole way through

I do all my shading and highlighting on the same layer, no weird tricks there XD

all solid colour? or do you do a burn for the shading?

All solid color, I don't use the burn tool at all and I use the highlight tool sparingly

huh so you re-do the shading with each colour after you do the original shading?

so let me put this square in my head, it goes..

Sketch
Base colour
Shading and restructuring
Colour + shading
Details

No not exactly.

I do the shading once. After I am done with the shading I don't don't normally touch it till later.

I duplicate the layer (so in this case there would be two blue layers) and then I go onto "Image/adjust/gradianmap" The gradiant map allows me to change the color of the layer and adjust the shading without any sort of drawbacks (though it does take some experimenting to learn how the sliders work)

After I choose a color... I set it. So in this case the color is now orange. Then I Erase all the area's that I do NOT want orange to be, and the blue layer below shows through. After I have Erased all the bits of orange, I go back to the original blue layer, I Duplicate it, and I start the process all over with yellow XD

after I have all the base colors down, I then go back in and add details and shading where I may have missed.

Then I add highlights and some lowlights to define form a little (In this case a little bit of blue on the black so he doesn't blend into the background)

Then I create another layer, and set it to screen... Screen is Glow... and I add where I want the glow to be

And then I am done XD

Wow nifty O,0 I might give that technique a try when I have the time O,o never tried "gradianmap" before ^,^

I might also force my self to do the shading first, never done it that way before.
I looks like its clay carved when it reaches that blue with shading. Ha reminds me of Fimo funnily enough.

How do you do the transition from the monochrome to the colors? Do you use an Overlay layer or do you select and adjust with colorize (ctrl+U)?

I duplicate the layer (so in this case there would be two blue layers) and then I go onto "Image/adjust/gradianmap" The gradiant map allows me to change the color of the layer and adjust the shading without any sort of drawbacks (though it does take some experimenting to learn how the sliders work)

After I choose a color... I set it. So in this case the color is now orange. Then I Erase all the area's that I do NOT want orange to be, and the blue layer below shows through. After I have Erased all the bits of orange, I go back to the original blue layer, I Duplicate it, and I start the process all over with yellow XD

after I have all the base colors down, I then go back in and add details and shading where I may have missed.

Woot! That's great to know. Switching monochromatic to multi-color images was always a puzzle to me. That helps out a lot. Thanks!