A Bright New Beginning

Okay. So. I was gonna upload the animations I did for last week's assignment, but I didn't realize it took Vimeo over two hours to upload a ten second clip. So here are some screenshots.



The coolest comic book in the world right now is Scott Pilgrim. I did a little animation of him based off of this picture.



I went into photoshop and deleted the background and stuff to make it an alpha layer. For the background in the video, I found picture online of comic book speedlines, made it a 'multiply' layer in photohsop, and added a gradient behind it to help it look a little like the original illustration. It ended up being kind of a hack job.

Using the Pupper Pin Tool in After Effects, I placed a series of joints on the picture where I wanted him to move. I was surprised that AE somehow configured it so the arm and hand went above the head. Anyway, the animation is of Scott doing this pointing motion and some headbanging. It would've looked a lot cooler if I had any sense of time at all and realized that ten seconds goes by really slowly, so the final animation looks a little weird.

So hopefully I'll have the animations up tomorrow, if not later tonight. I also did one using the bug samples from class, but I probably won't upload that one (not if it's going to take over two hours).