Illustrator - Specialisms
The next specialism we're exploring involves learning Adobe Illustrator to create vector assets that will then be imported to After Effects for animation.
We've been given a color palette limited to five colors, and the prompt "Fable". We have to come up with a script, concept the characters therewithin, and divide the work decided upon by the group by the members to create a ~60-90 second animation.
Not only are we using a new program, writing our own script, and doing our first real collaborative project, we've also got an extremely limited color palette with not a lot of time for concepting.
This has been a little bit of a challenge, mostly the time constraint, though I have a little prior knowledge of Illustrator.
I've never used the program before, but I have watched a course or two about it, and I didn't have much trouble figuring it out. I'm confident in my writing abilities, but my main concern is keeping everything within the time limit, which I think I achieved with my script.
That which I've had to fiddle around most with is the design of the characters. When I first made Midas I was very fresh to the program, but I slowly got bolder with my technique until I had made Dionysus, and the change in style did draw comments from my tutor. I do think it would be good to complexify the designs of (especially Midas) the other characters a bit more so that they don't look so stylistically different. I think they should also have proper hands, like Dionysus.
