The Brief:
Create motion graphics to accompany one of your band's songs; minimum length 15 seconds, target length 210 seconds.
Create motion graphics to accompany one of your band's songs; minimum length 15 seconds, target length 210 seconds.
Chosen Song
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London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared, and battle come down London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls London calling, now don't look to us Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust London calling, see we ain't got no swing Except for the ring of that truncheon thing The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin Engines stop running, but I have no fear 'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river London calling to the imitation zone Forget it brother, you can go it alone London calling to the zombies of death Quit holding out, and draw another breath London calling, and I don't wanna shout But while we were talking, I saw you nodding out London calling, see we ain't got no high Except for that one with the yellowy eyes The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin A nuclear error, but I have no fear 'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin A nuclear error, but I have no fear 'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river Now get this... London calling, yes, I was there too And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true! London calling at the top of the dial And after all this, won't you give me a smile? London calling... I never felt so much alike alike alike alike... |
Messages of anti-racism, anti-capitalism and anti-fascism.
Highlighted words that could be the focus of the animation:
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Research & Inspiration
Top 5 Types of Animation:
- Traditional animation (cel animation)
- 2D animation (vector-based)
- 3D animation
- Stop motion
- Motion graphics
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LinkedIn Learning
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I started watching the essentials training on After Effects on LinkedIn Learning and took some notes of key definitions. Even though the videos are broken down really well I struggled to take anything in and wasn't really getting much from it.
YouTube
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I went to YouTube hoping to get some better tutorials and found out the functions of After Effects are actually very similar to Premier Pro which I have used before. Now I need to figure out what I actually want to create so I can get started in the programme.
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I followed the above video and did a few quick little experiments to get back into the features and tools accessible on After Effects.
Moodboard
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I made moodboards of London and relevant lyrics to the song to give me directions on what I want to visualise in the video.
Initial Ideas
Eye Animation
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Storyboards
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I worked out the timelines of the video and planned out what would appear when.
Assests
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I made all the assets I knew I needed for the video in Illustrator so I had a base to start with.
Legs Animation
No matter how many tutorials I watched explaining the process of animating legs, I couldn't get it to look like what I envisioned. I decided to take it back to basics with a talking skull which was one of the first ideas I had.
Basic Plan
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This was the start of the making of the animation. I was getting really frustrated with this as each time I added a new element it seemed to mess with the positioning or timing of something else. The next stage was adding lyrics and effects to the background.
Feedback & Reflection
After receiving feedback and guidance on where to take the project, it was clear I wasn't happy with what I was producing and decided to take a step back and return to what I created within the 3D project. I'm going to use stop motion with added animation and my felting creations to make the final video.
Stop Motion Research
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Experiments
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Photoshoot
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