Colour is elusive

 In the book 'The Art of Pixar' Amid Amidi describes how colour is elusive and the mutability of a single colour with its vast amount of possible hues, shades, tints and tones is perceived in relation to its context and its neighboring colours. It is for this reason colour is so effective for expressing mood and emotion in so many different ways. Colours are so powerful that their slightest change can express many different things form the same colour. The colour blue can be interpreted as associated with ice and cold but in contrast can also portray the hottest point of a flame. The colour red can evoke emotions of lust and love and at the same time draw connotations of blood and gore. It is the quality and skills artists at Pixar posses that they have the utmost colour understanding and can create images to directly evoke particular emotions from an audience to set the emotional arcs within a film. The psychology behind colour theory is amazing. I have included a page from the book, 'The Art of Pixar' because I find looking at a colour script so broadly really shows off the use of colour in such an appealing way.