Assignment
Create a short animation in After Effects that has a primary character and tells a quick story 1-3 minutes. Due week 5
Brainstorming
My partner was Erkin. We had several ideas we wanted to do: an ITP promo video, a person exploring Brooklyn, and a dog walking through the streets. We talked to our professor and decided to animate the dog because it’s cuter. The idea behind our animation was our day to day anxiety caused by news. Every single day is “breaking news” in 2019. With Trump as president, it’s unbearable. It feels as if there is no air. We wanted to show that in our animation.
Storyboard
Process
I'm experienced with Illustrator and After Effects and Erkin is familiar with it and After Effects, but overall it was a new endeavour for us both in terms of animating. I was in charge of animating the backgrounds and designing the dog, and Erkin was animating the dog and chose music. We were both very busy and met up rarely, but when we did meet up we got a lot done. We think that we would have done a better job if we had more time, or if we had done animations full time.
Result