KND PILOT COLOR KEYS

Back before everyone was using their 

fancy computin' machines 

to draw pitchers and stuff,

backgrounds for TV shows were

painted with actual paint.

But since most of the backgrounds 

are going to be painted at 

a studio overseas,

we just do what are called

COLOR KEYS.

These are usually wide-shots 

of each location

 in the storyboard board to give 

the overseas artists an idea of what's happening 

color-wise.

The problem with doing things this way is

that the studio often just goes in tighter on

these keys for close-up shots without redrawing the BG for details.

And it looks like poop.

Generally you try to send them

as many keys as you can,

but there's usually no

time or budget for that.

But these days digital painting 

HAS

sped things up

and made the process easier.

Here are the color prints

that were sent to

Rough Draft Studios

for the

Codename: Kids Next Door pilot

"No P in the Ool"

all done by

sooper paint-powered

Jenny Gase-Baker

It's funny looking at these

since so much changed when we went to series!