Studio Mouette's use of lighting and gradients really sets the atmosphere in this room, and makes it look very positive and comfortable. It would be easy to keep this as just plain, flat colours, but it feels much more believable and life-like this way. The use of more saturated colours within this lighting help a lot, as well as keeping the well lit parts slightly less cluttered; this creates more space, drawing your eyes towards it where the lighter parts also are.
The above two images are from the Japanese animation 'Concrete Revolutio' which I've put here because of the screen tones/texture used. It give it a bit more of a comic book feel, and adds more colours to the image, making them more bright and upbeat, which I want in my animation. There are no black lines to be seen, instead using only slightly darker versions of colours, and making some parts of the background seem more organic. The screen tone covers mostly bits in shadow, stopping there from being too much as to hurt the viewers' eyes.
This then reminded me of Roy Lichtenstein's art. Though he is more known for his are involving characters rather than backgrounds, he has some good mixes of both. Again, the screen tone is only used for certain parts of the image, rather than all of it, and definitely adds to the printed comic look.
I am also looking at some of Kevin Dart's art - specifically this piece and it's use of lighting and gradients. The reflections in the puddles look very realistic, and the areas of dark compared to light pull your eyes to the centre extremely well. This is am extremely interesting and effective background, and I would like to reach that level of detail and interest in my own backgrounds.
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