Colour Pop!

This image came about as I was working out my colouring methods. This was just testing out fills with block colours in The Gimp, and I ended up with a weird Pop arty look.Here I thought it would be cool to have a split image with the digital clean up line on one side and the colouring on the otherside.
And this is a composite test. Yeah I started this cartoon in late 2006 and I'm still doing a lot of tests. Mainly because I'm trying to find out what works with a home set up as I don't have access to the tools and software that I used while at school.

This background is from another scene. Kind of a funny story in a twisted way, I was all ready to composite this scene together but I didn't have a coloured background for it. After searching through my archives I now realise that I don't have any digital version of the background at all. No clean up scan, no rough scans. All I have is the cleaned up background sitting in a scene wrap.. as I don't really have access to a scanner and I'm looking for 'what ever works' methods, I will have to put the compositing on hold while I colour up some other scenes which use the same background before I get around to digitizing a background.
When I was school we used sheet feeding scanners and software including Premier Pro, Toonboom, Flipbook and After Effects. Working from home, I don't have the luxury of those things but I am thrilled with what is available to anyone willing to cobble together their own "Creative Suite".

Some software I'm using at the moment:
The Gimp / Monkey Jam / Pencil / Inkscape / Wax

Notice anything in common with these programs?
As I get more familiar with these programs I plan to post more on the methods I use to put together an animation.