This was the first animation Bryan and I worked on together. I designed all the assets, laying out the composition and organizing assets into layers in Illustrator. I didn't know the correct way to organize them at the time, so Bryan had a little difficulty transferring them to After Effects.
We got it working though, and Bryan managed to create every bit of motion that I storyboarded out, including the 2.5D parallax shift, frame wiggle, bat/moon blending mode and of course the cute ghostie.
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When looking for inspiration for this animation, I found a really cute hand turkey that looked similar to this dummie. I thought it'd be precious to combine the arts + crafts style with a derpy walk cycle and a giant googly eye.
I made a sample animation as the storyboard for this, so Bryan could visualize the goofy movement of this turkey. He really nailed it - the googly eye makes me giggle every time!
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With this animation, I challenged myself to make a more realistic scene. I created the floor background in Photoshop, then built all the other assets in Illustrator. Then I made another sample animation to show Bryan the pacing of everything.
Bryan recreated the multiple light sources and smoothed out the motion to make the final animation really sort of fancy. It was used as an introduction for client holiday videos.
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The composition and storyboard for this animation came to me right away - I knew I wanted a cute and fat hoggie. I wish I'd had more time to polish the other graphics in this animation, but they just give more attention to the hoggie and his precious secondary motion. By the way, did you know it's "Groundhog Day"? But it's the "groundhog's day"!
Bryan nailed the color change effects as the sun rises and the masking of the hoggie as he comes out of the hole.
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This was the last holiday animation Bryan and I got to make, and it's definitely our best. We had a lot of fun working out the concept together - scrolling Pinterest for ideas and scribbling out a main composition.
I altered it a bit as I developed the concept, trying to make the bunny and chicks as cute as I could.
View final animation here.
