When I saw this concept made by Valerie Ben, I wanted to bring it to life for two reasons. One, it's damn cute, and two, it came with (what I suppose are) unused colour variations. Which gave me an idea: since this is a futuristic park, why shouldn't it flash with *all* the colours? To pull this off I had to use a different texturing approach than I normally use. For all the assets (except the bench and the bin), I painted black-and-white maps which distributed the colours. The colours itself were selected in colour inputs, which had the benefit of being - you've guessed it - animatable. Er. Keyframe-able? Whatever you want to call it, it worked, and I'm quite pleased with the result.
Concept: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mqNKG8
@wesburke Thank you very much, Wes. :-)
Stunning work! It looks so painterly, I had to flip back and forth to Artstation to look for the slight differences with Valerie's piece. Love the extra work with the shaders too!