FINISHED!

Here it is. I like it. not loads and loads, but i like it. it's been a very good starting point to get me used to the basics of after effects.

City Cycle

And this is the genius wheel of landscape in action. I've already tried it in my animation and it works well. here it is on it's own

Walking cycle test

Landscape for my Walking Contraption animation

I meant to have a go at making a video using something like this to make a stop motion, and i still might, but for now, i'm using this little handy peace for my After Effects work...

It's simply just a circle with the landscape of a city around the edge. as it rotates, the city looks more and more destroyed. I can make this rotate 360º once in time with the walking.

Final contraption

And here are some of the main pieces that will make the full contraption. i plan on parenting certain points and making some -hopefully- reasonably good looking physics!

 

Style development

This first drawing I did at work. it's not a style i've done before, but quite enjoy thinking about the character of the contraption and it's different features. I'd like people to look at this and wonder what it is and what it does. I'm trying to capture the crazy unpredictable nature of the song i've been given.

Something with a bit of watercolouring. More of a landscape design than a creature. With the contraption moving along the landscape, realistically, i wouldn't be able to keep up this amount of detail for the whole landscape in the time i have

Updated storyboard

Probably very complicated to do within about 2 weeks (with an essay to do to!!1) but I'm going for it. if i get a nice dynamic walking cycle it should look good!

It'll be like Howl's Moving Castle but without the crack team of crazy Japanese animators and very basic After Effects skills

I've decide to have a go at doing an animation involving a walking character like Howl's Moving Castle from Studio Ghibli's film... Howl's Moving Castle.

I figure if i parent separate animations to a larger drawing, I could get a really dynamic animation that way!

'Round of applause'

playing around with this animation i rotascoped. using sliding pictures and things

Franz Ferdinand - Take me out

Just got reminded of this on a music channel. it's the sort of style i want to go with. the shaky collage effect, but with metal textures and a bit of a darker slower pace to match the music.

Upload time

RIGHT THEN, now i know how to upload so i get get a couple of my animation experiments on the screen!

lets start with the first thing i did. I still have an abundance to electrical tape from the first project we did at Uni...



This kind of stop motion, for a smooth nice animation, really needs to be in a studio with a nice clean constant light, not with the light from an overcast day like me!

Story board draft

Rough draft of a story for my final piece

 

 

Beautiful hand drawn animation music video to another great tune from Blockhead

As..bonkers as it is, it's still got a narrative, i'd like to do something like this. it really keeps you watching