Appartments - 2D animation
Personal project
I wanted to challenge myself and my workflow a little, so I gave myself a task and a strick time limit to finish this animation.
I learned alot about optimization and managed to find one or two of things I could better both pipeline wise but also personal.
It was a fun challlenge and I will do more like this in the future just to push myself a llittle.
Made with Photoshop, Illustator & After effect
A quick mockup with colors just to make sure the placement is allright. The box in the middle is to mark 1:1 format.
Balcony and appartment windows has been marked out.
More details added. Window frames, better indoor lighting, power cables and a little chimney
I needed the appartments to turn on and off their lights. This is the preparation for that.
Adding more details added and small changes in comp. Background is almost ready for the animation
The stars was created with the use of CCParticle world.
Animation:
I managed to loop the animation by moving the timeline a little, duplicate it and making a small overlay, making sure that the start and end was aligned correctly.
I changed the opacity between the two layers, making sure the change of layers could not be seen.
This is usually how I loop my particle animations.
The UFO was simply animated using the “Wiggle - position” effect.
Illustrator and I have never been BFF’s and I usually does all illustrations in photoshop, knowing Illustrator would be the better choise.
So with the project I tried to change that around a little bit and learn more about how to work in Illustrator without ripping the hair out of my head.
Here you can see the final result of my little UFO-silhouette.
Luckly for me, this time I was kinda enjoying it and I am already working on another project only with use of Illustaitor and no photoshop. - Wish me luck!
