Image Ordering & Construction

Not that I spent too much time ordering and numbering the layers for my backgrounds as I am nearing the completion of them I have found it increasingly important for myself to get this side of things under control. On average each shot as around 20ish layers. I have started using folders for each main element of the shot, these have been: Character, Clouds, Mist, Cloud Shadows and Ground. Outside of these folders I have kept the standard gradient color for the background of each sky and a complete black layer which is very using in flicking back and for from to gain a good understanding of the varying levels of opacity in the mist and clouds, inspecting the edges of them and the hills, working out exactly where things sit and getting a brief preview of the change in look of the image I will get as I am planning to tweak the colors in a 1 or 2 of the shots to make Izel look very formidable and evil.

Thumbnail of how I have organized the layers for shot 2