Hilda's Brilliant Use of Colour | Art Analysis

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Breaking down one of my favourite colour palettes in any animation, Hilda.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Early History
1:11 Colour Palette
2:15 Line Art
2:58 Light
3:56 Colour Relativity
5:51 Demo

[DanielAngArt]

What other animations have great colour palettes to check out?

[onechaoticneutral]

Hilda is honestly the most beautiful cartoon I've seen, even though it's not overly detailed or realistic, it expresses itself with a quaint simplicity and limit of colour while avoiding total minimalism.
it was very nice to see your drawing studies of the style.

[notu_productions]

wow thank you for covering Hilda!! Not many people are talking about it. it's one of this show that is so cozy and gives me a sense of comfort. definitely have to watch it again

[moritakaishida]

Hilda is definitely a comfort show for me

[NoahPopejoy]

The look of the show is what drew me to watch it. There is nothing I respect more than the brilliant use of color in animation. And while I can never figure out why it might be brilliant, I know brilliant color usage when I see it. And when I saw Hilda, I could just tell it was something special. Something unique with it's animation and color.

[eddieboi]

Yessss, I've been thinking about Hilda's colour palette since I first watched the show. It's so nice to hear it explained!

[wattamborenjoyer]

A really great analysis! I also wanted to add on something cool I noticed regarding the characters, specifically the main trio Hilda, David and Frida.

The colours used on them before was blue, red, yellow, and orange. Hilda’s clothes are made up of primary colours, while David’s are made up of the one secondary colour, orange. This was to show how Hilda and David are opposites with her being more adventurous and him being more fearful. And Frida’s clothes are a combination of the same blue and orange, likely to present her as a sort of equaliser of the two that posses both of their qualities.

Now in season three, David and Frida’s colours drastically changed. David’s shirt, rather than the secondary colour, orange it’s the same blue as Hilda’s hair. This was likely done to show his development in becoming more adventurous like Hilda. And Frida’s clothes are now grey, white and purple which is the exact same palette as the Librarian Witch, Kaisa. This was also likely done to show her development in becoming a more powerful witch.

I could be misinterpreting it but I thought it’d be something nice to mention.

[BenChurchill]

The color palettes were also one of the first things I noticed and really liked about Hilda. It reminded me a bit of the early two-strip Technicolor process that was used in film in the 1920's. It had a red-orange and cyan-blue color palette, which is a lot of what HIlda has. It's just aesthetically pleasing to me.

[Renkencen]

It should be mention that the show kinda went out of the way to avoid using as much green as possible. Yes they still used green but it was like Earthly green. It was only the Marra debut episode that they first used bright green aka the Marra magic!

[cbubs_art]

I don't know how this doesn't have more views. I just started watching the show and was fascinated by the use of color. Your video was a joy to watch and I am now inspired to create my own demo with the day and night color palettes :) Seems like a good exercise.

[gojak-one-day]

I really love this analysis!! i've always wanted to look at Hilda's color use in depth.
It's really interesting how the palette is so eyes-calming.

[Dardasha_Studios]

Daniel, this is great content. I always wanted to watch Hilda because of its color palette. Allow me to list of shows whose colors looked inspiring:

1. Jackie chan adventures. (For example the colors leave the outline and it still loos nice)
2. Totally Spies ( The shiny vibe of beverly hills, even when they travel across the world, the shony vibe is till there)
3. Bare bear (The colors are magnificent )
4. One piece (Romance dawn era, just look into the color of the ocean and then the color of green chosen in Nami arc).

Nice work.!!

[candivee_art]

Loved this analysis! I never watched this show but the art style is sooo gorgeous and I'm really fascinated with how they handled the color pallet from day to night. It works really well with the extremely light/pastel scenes (maybe early morning?) that are almost a bit washed out but in a masterful way. Also loved the demo at the end, and that reference photo is perfection! 😍

[VictoriaPutinski]

Amazing video! I had the pleasure of working on S02, S03 and TMK, and I can tell you that a LOT of effort went into the colour language (and shape language) in the show.

[YetiBoyPlays]

Its such a great show it always gets me sketching when i put it on.
You should definitely do an analysis of Bee and Puppycat!

[marymori]

So glad you talked about Hilda. The colors and style are so inspiring. It was great to see a demo done in this style too. Thanks!

[FinmacleFresh]

Cant stress enough how much this video has opened me up about how amazing colors work. I love this video

[ricebeane]

Amazing analysis! I also really love your structured studies at the end, great and well constructed video!

[loganberryyaps]

I’ve always loved the colors of that show!! The show is lovely, and totally underrated. Great video!

[hritikwadhwa]

Amazing, i recently started watching this show and could not help but notice how beautifully color has been used and this is the only video i found analyzing and appreciating these details.