This, is my final piece for my sound animation. I think this turned out well because I managed to time my animation to the music. In order to improve this I could have timed some of the changes better to look more smooth, but overall I’m happy with the result.
These, are my animation sketches, before I started editing my animation together on Adobe After Effects I decided to draw it out frame by frame and label the colour changes and size changes. This helped me stay on track when I started editing my animation together. I think I’ll use this planning process again in the future.
To create my line explosion for my animation, I used this tutorial. I think it explained using expressions and using the pen tool to create shapes and animate them together really well.
Here’s my experimentation trying to make a stop motion puppet. I drew some designs a couple weeks ago and decided to try and make it. I made it using air dry clay, wire and purple acrylic paint. I think it turned out okay because I got it to stand up which was hard because the head was bigger than the body. However, to improve this I could’ve made it look a little more like my original design. But overall I’m happy with how it’s turned out.
This, is an experiment for my sound animation. I created the zoom in tv idea I came up with, which I spoke about at the end of my last post. I think it turned out well because it engages the viewer and makes them feel almost apart of the animation.
Here, is another experiment I created for my sound animation. I created a tv design on illustrator and added it into after effects, I liked the idea of the animation being on the tv almost. So I might try changing the camera movement for it and zoom into the tv to add the effect that the viewer is going into the tv. Lastly, I’m not sure If I want to keep the waveform idea so I might adjust that to make the animation look better too.
Here, is my 2nd liquid circle experiment. I think it turned out well because I managed to get the colour change and set the small circles up so they moved and changed at the same time. To improve it more I could put it on a loop or add more circles to it and change more colours to make it more interesting.
This, is the liquid shape experiment I tried for my sound animation. I think this turned out well because I got the blend and colour change I was going for. However, to improve this I could’ve made it loop or added more shapes to it to make the animation look more interesting but overall I’m happy with how it’s turned out. I followed a tutorial for this that I found early on in my research and I think it turned out to be a helpful simple tutorial to follow. (See tutorial I followed below)
Here is my puppet drawing I came up with. The bottom image shows my original sketch up to the coloured vector vesion. I think it turned out well because I kept it small and simple. To improve this I could’ve added a bit more detail to the puppet to make it look better but overall I’m happy with how it turned out. I got inspiration from the instagram account below. I like their cartoony pastel style of art but also their style of drawing.
This is my second attempt at a walk cycle, I improved it by making the character walk on the spot instead of across the screen. I think this ended up looking better. Also, I saved it as a gif on photoshop so the walk cycle would keep repeating.
Here, is my experiment with trying a walk cycle. I think it turned out well because I got the right walking rhythm. However, to improve this I could’ve added extra frames to make the walk look smoother but overall I’m happy with how it turned out.
Here, is my experiment with a walk cycle. I think it turned out well because I got the right walk flow I was going for. To improve this I could have added more frames to make the animation less jumpy but overall I’m happy with how it turned out.
Edited 30 second clip for the sound animation. I think it went well because I started to learn how to use audition. To improve this I could add markers for when I start to make my sound animation but overall, I think it’s turned out well so far.
This is a after effects experimentation I’ve done. To create this I used the liquid text tutorial I found previously in my research. Doing this has allowed me to learn more about after effects and also it has helped me to put ideas together more for my animation.
This video I found was super useful it’s a tutorial on how to edit text or shapes to a soundtrack. I’m going to use this in my own work for getting my shapes and morphing to match the beats to my music.
For the start or end of my animation I want to use shapes to morph into text to spell out the name of the music and melt away. Here, I found a tutorial that shows you how to create liquid text on after effects. I think that it explained it really well and I’m going to use this tutorial when creating my own work.
I had an idea that I could use the liquid drip effect to blend shapes in after effects, so I found this tutorial in order to give me an idea on how I could create this and it also helped me see what it would visually look like and also helped me for ideas for when I do my idea drawings later on in my research process.