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Anime Background Painting

Kenn Yap (Chroma Moma)

Capture the look of classic anime backgrounds with Kenn Yap (Chroma Moma). Combine real brushstrokes with Photoshop in a flexible workflow that brings handmade quality to your scenes while getting results quickly and efficiently.

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Artwork by instructor Kenn Yap

Classic tools, modern techniques.

Capture the look of classic anime backgrounds with concept artist and background painter Kenn Yap (Chroma Moma). In this Session, you’ll learn to combine the texture and character of real brushstrokes with the flexibility of Photoshop. Kenn will show you how to design a space, paint over printed line art, refine your scanned paintings digitally, and add detail using your own hand-painted assets. This workflow lets you balance traditional and digital techniques to suit your strengths, bringing a handmade quality to your backgrounds without needing to be an expert in traditional painting. This Session also includes a free materials guide in the first lesson, showing every tool that Kenn personally recommends! 

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Artwork by instructor Kenn Yap

Handcrafted with care.

Kenn is a devotee of classic 80’s and 90’s anime, and he has recently released the first taste of his own anime project, Orbital Drop. This is a fully solo project that he created in his free time over the course of 3 full years. The beautiful trailer was entirely hand-drawn by Kenn, using the techniques taught in this Session. Check out the Orbital Drop trailer below!

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What you'll learn

A guided path through every stage of the course, broken down into focused lessons you can work through at your own pace.

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Kenn Yap (Chroma Moma)

Kenn Yap, also known as Chroma Moma, is a concept artist and background painter based in Malaysia. His work includes mechanical and environment design for Sun Creature Studio and illustrations for Magic: The Gathering. Through his Chroma Moma YouTube channel, he shares his approach to art and design. Inspired by classic ’80s and ’90s anime, Kenn is also the creator of Orbital Drop, a hand-drawn animation project which he developed over three years.

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Anime Background Painting
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tons of workflow crap and programs i would have never thought of trying.... PEEP DATTT!!!1

beeple

Designer

My career as a concept artist started after taking these courses. Much of what I learned I applied to my portfolio and in a couple months ... I got my first job.

Elias Ravanetti

Concept Artist & Illustrator

Learn Squared gives me the freedom and flexibility to learn from the best in the industry at my own pace.

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Course Lesson Plan

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  • 4 hours 3 minutes
    Total Bundle Duration
  • 31 Videos
    Video Lectures in Bundle
  • 709.15 MB of Files
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Tools Used
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The tools listed below are used throughout the lectures of this course. Using alternatives is definitely possible depending on your proficiency, but we can only recommend using these listed softwares.

  • Blender
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Traditional Media

Homework can be cool.

Check out some of the amazing work Anime Background Painting students have created by doing their homework.

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