Saturday, August 20, 2011

Come Back Down

And, for my motion final (my longest project yet) I decided to do a piece about this little girl falling down through the sky based on one of my really old illustrations from high school. I decided to go with a paper-cut illustration look in a much cuter style than what I usually do. It may not seem all that complicated, but I had to animate many different comps before hurling them together into one giant canvas. I feel pretty good completing that class! (Yes, I did attempt a little 3D with all that wing flappage )

Here it is:

Sherlock Holmes Kinetic Typography

Here is my motion midterm, a kinetic typography piece done to a clip from the movie Sherlock Holmes. I'm certainly no graphic designer, so dealing with type is a bit difficult for me. I decided not to draw a lot for this project (because it felt like something I was falling back on and I really wanted to try something more graphic-y ) but instead found photos of the images I wanted and then I turned them into illustrations using photoshop for that nice old-ish feel.

Here it is: