Being the director and the production designer is a thing that I really like. I have more control of the visuals and of the actions in the film, but it is also a lot of work. Ill share some first ideas of the colours I wanted to use in the film and then how that was my starting point to source films that have that palette.
I was looking for nature colors that remind me home. Like sunsets in the sea, the colors of the country side, the fog of the capital city and so on. Also I really want it to have a little bit of magic and surrealism thats why some parts of the film have this fantastic feeling in the colour as well.
After this research I started to understand what I wanted and did some slides for each part of the film.
For example in this slide we can see how the colours are now used in this shot. Now its easier to stablished the locations and the colors of it. For me it is important to have references of places and colors so the art direction can be more accurate when the 3D designers are doing all the film.