People in This City
Leonard Cohen Animated Poem
I’m in the process of learning AfterEffects, so here is a longer project I made based off Leonard Cohen’s poem “People in This City.”
I built a cardboard city set and used real snow to make a world to animated on top of. I recorded myself walking in snow, and layered in some other music and city ambience. I also created some paper furniture to animate inside the apartment windows. This project was so fun and I still have so much to learn in After Effects, I’m excited for my next work!
My Process
Using gouache paint I made some concept art to get down my ideas and overall gloomy feeling of the set.
On my kitchen table, I used my recently purchased vacuum box to construct the whole set! I’m obsessed with corrugated cardboard texture and found a way 2 years ago how to wet the material then peel away the layers to reveal the corrugated layer.
Storyboarding and generating ideas to animate with the footage of the set. I made connections to lines of the poem to best illustrate the story.
Paper furniture I cut out in photoshop to animate.
