I've been studying animation recently. As we're approaching the end of the semester, I've had to turn in my final projects. Here they are.
For this one, I created the video in Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects, and I made the music with Ableton Live. Caveat: it looks better on my machine. YouTube's compression has not been as kind as I would have hoped.
The assignment for this one was to create an intro credits sequence for an existing film, and I chose
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. The film's based on a series of graphic novels, which I own, so I scanned images from the comics, tweaked them in Photoshop, and added color by animating brush strokes in After Effects.
The soundtrack's a song called "Scott Pilgrim," by the Canadian band Plumtree. The author of the comics named the character after the song.
I figured I had aced the basic skill of coloring in a black-and-white image back when I was five, with crayons, but it was actually an arduous process. If you count brush stroke effects as layers, two comps in this animation had over 300 layers.
Ironically, I picked this approach because I had limited time. I had to turn in both projects a little early. On the last day of class, I'll be on an airplane back from
RobotsConf. I have to give a big shout-out to my employer, Panda Strike, not just for sending me to this awesome conference, which I'm very excited about, but also for being the kind of company which believes in flexible scheduling and remote work. Without flexible scheduling and remote work, I would have a much harder time studying animation.