So I just came back to the apartment from Nathan Fowkes' workshop, and I've learnt quite a few things over the 5-hour talk about colour and lighting, which I thought I'd share with you guys. Nathan Fowkes has been working at Dreamworks for over 17 years (if I'm not wrong), and he's worked on Prince of Egpyt, Sinbad, Spirit, Puss in Boots, Shrek: Forever After, How to Train Your Dragon and etc. He does mostly colour keys as well as production paintings.
I am sorry to say that there isn't a lot of visuals to work with, and these are the most I could churn out during the talk because it was going so fast, and all I could do is write down notes on Pages. I've attached a link to download the PDF file to my notes, if you want it. They're all written in mel-language (not Maya) so if there's anything you're not sure, I can try to explain it.
[Download the PDF here]
Here's also a tidbit on a couple of Scott Willis' (Samurai Jack) stuff: http://pumml.blogspot.com/2008/08/message-from-scott.html
