Q: do the colors on the juggling stick things in "out to lunch" have any meaning or are they just colors
A: i almost wanted them to be the same color, but the reason it's important that they are different colors is because this is an animation (not real) so it's technically more powerful to prove that there are actually 3 clubs. Otherwise it might feel like the animation loop is only 1/3 of the length it actually is. it's important to see the individual clubs changing hands. I made the juggling animation first, and i had 3 different colors just so i could tell them apart. Then i modeled the rooms and did the rest of the animation. Then i had to deal with whether the colors looked good with the scene. There are several moments where 1 club is featured (thrown into the ceiling tile, or onto the light, or when the last 2 go up to the atrium.) So i needed to find a color scheme which looked good with all 3 together, and, also looked good when the individual ones are featured. And switching the clubs at that point was out of the question. so i had to juggle the colors around a bit to make all the scenes look good with the same color scheme. That is generally the meaning of colors: how they look, and how the look feels. And with 3 different but consistent interchanging items, that became somewhat of a puzzle for me