Tyler the creator

I've been watching all kinds of different videos by all kinds of videographers and animators for inspiration. What i like about this music video is the naive style of the camera being out of focus quite often, and thought that may be an interesting effect to try and apply to my animation. In keeping with this vintage, slightly messy style I'm trying to achieve.

Steamboat Willie

I was torn for a while between cell animation and animating purely using after effects. I think the style most fitting for what i want to do is cell animation, as i want to achieve and old silent movie, flickery style. I like the real old vintage style of things like Disney's Steamboat Willie, and want to re-create that feel.

Motomichi Nakamura

This animation by Nakamura was a pretty big source of inspiration for me when i was in the story boarding phase. I like the simplicity and bold shapes used. Which gave me the idea of using real simple shapes such as equilateral triangles, circles and droplet shapes in my own animation.

We Share Our Mothers Health » By Motomichi Nakamura from The Knife on Vimeo.

Key Frame Timing

to work out key frame timing i split my animation into thirds. Part 1 - The deer, Part 2 - The triangles and Part 3 - The tree. Each part being roughly 90 frames each

After Effects Sessions.

These are a bunch of videos from After Effects workshops, just getting to grips with the different capabilities. 

The Concept.

The Print to pixel brief was to pick 3 descriptive words that are inspired by the allocated piece of music and to produce an animation based on those chosen words.

My piece of music is Stereolab - Infinity Girl

My 3 words are: Progression, Movement and Growth.

Every time i listen to the piece of music i picture a sequence taking place across a timeline, almost like the progression or growth of something.

Storyboard concept 2.

Characters concept 2.

shape

ending image

Story concept 1.

Character development 1

Rayograms.

Some experiments i was doing with rayograms in my workshops. i was trying different ways to capture the depth in the pile of string. 

Emmanuel Radnitzky

 Emmanuel Radnitzky, better known simply as Man-ray. He was a modernist most well know for his abstract photogrpahy work.

After effects workshops.

Stop Motion experiments.

Blaine Fontana.

I love the characters that Blaine Fontana uses in his work. I often use his book Sedimental Promises as inspirational flick through when given new briefs. When i think of animations, i automatically think of characters, and i think a well drawn character is the key. I especially like Blaine's more symmetrical paintings and plan to capture that feel in my animation using one of my own characters.

ISO50

I'm a pretty big fan of both Scott Hansen's photography work and his Illustration/Graphic Design. I'm especially a fan of the earthy warm colours he uses. For my animation i want to use some real earthy tones and lomography feel of Hansen's style.

Inspiration.

I found these animations pretty inspiring. It's highly unlikely that i will produce something looking as sharp as these when it's my first time using after effects. But i definitely want to try and capture the same kind of vibe as these animations.