Background Painting Walkthrough for Animation

This is not a time lapse, but rather a video of me walking through the process of a painting, clicking through the layers and explaining why I made some choices.
If you would like to follow along and download the PSD and brushes, you can grab it for $5 at my gumroad store (link below)
gum.co/Ceuue
PLEASE let me know if this was helpful! I'm on the fence about making more of these kinds of videos and your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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Love,
Nick

[@jordynbridge7058]

It was interesting to see you change the stripe on the road from yellow to green. I have never thought to paint an object a different color in anticipation of what the multiply layer would do to it. I have just always accepted what the multiply layer gave me. 🤯 lol Thanks so much! Love your design and color sensibilities. Thanks for sharing the process.

[@boopydoop491]

This is extremely helpful insight!! It's so nice to see the logic regarding how you compose value and color, especially since they're both so strong in this piece. Thank you for making this video! :)

[@NicholasKennedy]

Thank you for the feedback and kind words!!! You are motivating me to make more!!!

[@flyingart.budapest]

@@NicholasKennedy Thanks a lot!You answered a lot of questions and confirmed a lot of things. Eternal gratitude

[@inkseer]

"Cuz you know how rich people have... stuff..." wasn't expecting that, made me burst out laughing.

[@ita_qupo]

I find thought process much more helpful than timelapse. Thanks for taking your time and sharing this!

[@christopherwright6032]

Great stuff, this is super helpful. Much better to learn from than a timelapse. :)

[@LieLikesMusic]

Thanks for taking me through your process of making this. It's gonna help me a lot!

[@swer9112]

there are so many ridiculously useful tips in this, thank you so much!

[@StephanieHarlow]

Thank you! It's VERY helpful to hear the thought process that goes into these!

[@OneDisguisedFish]

I’ve been having the most difficult time to work on backgrounds this video helped me a lot and even though I still have a long way to go I will use this video as a reference for whenever I feel stuck again thank you for putting out this video I’d be 10 times more lost without the help of these videos✨✨

[@zeldrias]

I did like it and I love you too.

[@meghan369]

This is such a goldmine - thank you!

[@bigboyamy]

This is a weird thing to bring up but I've never seen anyone use layers on the left side of the screen and that's all I was focusing on but still, a scrumptious video!

[@karyssadittmann8228]

Great video - thank you for sharing! I especially appreciate your point on the amount of time that goes into a piece like this, which can be easily forgotten when watching time lapse videos. :)

[@nicolemeehan3401]

i know im very very late but i found this video so helpful and would love if you made more like this :)

[@levinhale8584]

Welcome back!

[@eythanyvin8585]

Great video, do more pls ☺️😁

[@o500123456789]

great video! from a beginner learning how to paint backgrounds

[@miaandrea1449]

make more- this was super helpful

[@jeslynsama6135]

Ohhhh this is really insightful. The accountable thing is really interesting

[@gabby_donz]

This is a really insightful video!

[@glenncogan8109]

Thanks for sharing with us, I love this painting! Hopefully you will do more. Would be great to see how you you do one small section from start to finish. Showing brush and texture techniques would be awesome. Thanks Nick.

[@chrismartinink]

Thanks for sharing!

[@DRAWTIST1]

How am I just finding this? Awesome work!

[@filiparamalho1654]

Thank you very much for this video! it's very helpful

[@Manadays]

omg i love you too Thanks a lot!!

[@trueessence13]

Great Work this is so helpful !

[@jenniferballesteros7715]

This was great! Thank you so much for sharing.

[@NicolasRix]

Great video! Straight forward and to the point :)

[@ViolaGMidi]

I love you too!

[@thaismanda263]

This is super cool class thank you

[@jgepfile]

dw bro i love you too

[@catherinengo4808]

Very helpful! As someone who is going to college soon, I have a few questions: I would really love to work in visual development. I have more of an interest in games/animation b/c of the storytelling aspect, but I'm also interested in apps as well. Is it smarter to specialize in one of these fields rather than trying to do all? A lot of people I know tell me that, just b/c you major in something doesn't mean you can't get a job in another related field. I just want to know your opinion b/c I want to go to a college that requires me to pick one, when in reality I haven't decided what type of visdev is right for me.

[@artheaux666]

catherine ngo Take a game design course, it’ll cover almost everything you’re interested in. And don’t pick a school with an art program, go to an actual art school, more funding and specialized classes.

[@downwithfaith]

Hi, this looks different than my Photoshop but I’m assuming this IS Photoshop? Thanks for the video.

[@melyannz8046]

Hey my friend is looking for a background artist for her animated series. It’s similar to what you do. If your interested I’ll give you more details.