First After Effects Assignment

Again, I was a little short for ideas until I remembered this sketch I had done. The drawing itself is kind of unfinished, but I thought it'd be fun to bring it to life with after effects. I've been reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman series over the past few weeks and falling in love with it as a series. Naturally, I drew some Sandman-inspired doodles like the one featured in this video. I threw a beautiful photo I found of the nightsky by Flickr photographer GeoJono and played around with the effects and transforms in after effects until I found something that I kind of liked. Throw in a little Jarvis Cocker's sweet sounds (or at least some soothing thunder sound effects at the end of one of his tracks) and it makes for a nice little animation. Why Jarvis Cocker? Because that is totally what Sandman sounds like in my head. There a few small things I'd like to go back and tweak when I have a little more time (particularly the text), but overall I'd say it wasn't as much of a headache as it could have been.

UPDATE: Better quality video now UP! YAY

Sandman from Lady Subrosa on Vimeo.