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My Smarter Travel Animation. I really enjoyed putting this together and discovering various tools and tips for animating. I had originally planned to have dialogue in the video but at the last moment I went with the chosen song as I felt it conveyed more humor in the animation. I wanted to add a walk cycle to the character on the street and some slight motion of the arms but toon boom would not run on my old laptop.

Background designs for the Smarter Travel Brief. Created on Photoshop.

Robin from Teen Titans Go! assignment for Arturo’s class. My illustration on the left with the referenced image on the right. Created on Adobe illustrate.

Smarter Travel concept and storyboard. My approach was to have a character stuck in traffic and become stressed as he keeps seeing a student passing him by on foot over and over and then realizing he’s low on petrol. I was trying to convey how stressful traveling by car can be, your either stuck in traffic or sometimes being low on petrol when you least expect it. I was also trying to highlight the freedom you have walking to your destination, you can stop and go as you please and that there’s no delay. I wanted to add humour to the story to by having the character in the car headbutt the steering wheel at the end showing his defeat both to the student and the traffic he’s stuck in.

My 12 photoshop line drawings made from the original sketches . I used these line drawings for the animation.

Life drawing animation I made using 12 sketches of myself quoting the line “does this suit make me look fat?”. I chose this audio from the movie Tommy Boy on thesoundarchive.com. When approaching this brief I wanted to include a head lift and turn.

The other 6 sketches for the life drawing animation brief.

First 6 sketches for the life drawing animation brief.

Monogram Animation. I used the effects Stroke, CC Radical Fast Blur and Lens flare in the animation and enjoyed exploring each. I made a mistake when overlapping at the bottom, I think this is due to the brush thickness of the path and was unable to fix this. Enjoyed the overall process and feel more comfortable with the tools on Adobe After Effects.

Monogram Research. I really liked these styles of lettering and the idea of how one letter can spiral into another or even join together when animated.

Monogram development with some early sketches and final design on bottom right. I approached the design based off the style of writing I like such as Celtic and illuminated lettering with some overlapping and swirls. I also wanted to design the monogram based on how I wanted to animate it too. I wanted the monogram to grow on screen with swirls, curves and some overlapping of the line.