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.