It is agreed that the background is way too saturated - it distracts from the characters in the front and doesn't work too well with it. The blue is also a little too close to Johnny's hair, so maybe adding a bit of magenta before lightening and desaturating it would look better. At the moment we are moving on to the animation stage and I am finishing designs before moving onto clean up, but hopefully we have time to do a few tests between us with the colour. This is less of a priority than the animation though, considering we have a lot less time than we intended to finish this, so a minor colouring issue can be addressed much later on.
Another issue that was brought up, but I don't necessarily agree with, is the scale, there were comments that Johnny looks too small, and that he should be scaled up - the only problem being that 1. it makes his head look crazily big, and 2. it puts him to nearly chest height when scaled to the suggested height.
Here is the original [left] and the changed one [right]. The right one looks extremely out of proportion while, when put right next to the Cakeman, the original Johnny looks the right size.
The Cakeman is supposed to be tall anyway, but it around the right height compared to an 8 - 12 year old child. I think that the difference might look larger because the two characters are not standing level with each other in this test, since they have a full cart between them both. They do not stand like this often in the animation if at all - the characters are constantly moving around the cart and in scenes without the cart, so I think that the audience will be able to see and understand the scale much better within those scenes.
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