Thursday, September 23, 2010

After Effects - Masters of Time

Inspired by David Bowie's "Time" off of his Aladdin Sane record. Classic music.

This is a little victorian magician/hypnotist dude with a pendulum swinging pocketwatch. Mainly, I drew it on paper, digitally inked/painted it, and animated it with after effects using some more advanced tools like nested sequences, the parenting tool, and the curve editor. Not perfect, but a good start. I got a little frustrated with the curve editor because I spent a lot of time thinking it was a graphical way to edit the motion itself, when in actuality it's for adjusting the time/velocity. I should have already known this, but I let myself get mixed up.

I would like to go back and get the puppet tool to bend to my whim so I can add an extra effect to the pocketwatch chain, so as to further exaggerate the tensile force. I'd also like to add some sound when I have more time.

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