Introduction

In this session, we planned a motion graphics animation to work on in the next session.

Brainstorming

The starter for this lesson was to come up with words that we associated with the word time, and to add them to a Menti presentation. This word cloud was the result of everyone’s collective thoughts:

Here are a few mind-maps I made based on some of the words from the word cloud, to help develop ideas for my motion graphic animation.

Ideas

The ideas for animations that I came up with in the mind maps were:

• An animation of a bored character staring at a clock, waiting for time to pass.
• An animated haunted house with clocks everywhere.
• A time travel themed animation showing a time traveler in a time machine going to the future.
• An animated landscape scene of a futuristic city with flying cars and spaceships in the shot.

Storyboarding

Storyboarding is the process of drawing the shots of an animation before animating so that you can break down the story into a visual form and think about the different types of shot to use in the animation. Storyboards also come in handy when animating the final product, because animators will have something to base the shots off of so that it looks consistent. It is also useful for the clients to see progress or early versions of an animation to make sure it fits their brief.

Here is a storyboard I made for the idea I came up with “character staring at a clock waiting for time to pass”.

Production

I started by creating a clock asset in Adobe Illustrator using the text tool and shape tool.

Then, I started animating the shots which focused on the clock. I re-used the same comp file for each shot and rendered them separately so i could animate these shots quicker

I compiled the videos together in sequence.

My Animation

Conclusion