This is my final animation.

Over all i am very happy with the outcome and feel it compliments the song and my design development.

This is my final storyboard. It indicates the times and frames and also explains what is happening in the animation.

This is just to show how i added a gradient texture over my final animation to give it a softer and older feel to it, as i felt that the bright white background was too strong and distracting. I simply made the gradient in photoshop and imported the JPEG into after effects, placing it on a layer above the animation video layer. I then changed its layer style to Multiply because that gets rid of the white and leaves everything else. Which in this case just left the greyish gradient around the edges, softening it up.

These are just some screen shots of the process i took when i did the ball bounce tutorial in after effects. It shows my use of key frames and what movements i used to do it and the path the ball took.

This is my second rough story board for this animation. It has a little more detail in it than the first and this is when i roughly planned out how many frames each scene would need and i tried to stick to those numbers when making my animation.

These are some pages from my sketch book work from a while back. This is just a simple line pattern of how i visualised the notes and changes in the song from start to end. It was just a rough help for me to pick out the area of the song i wanted to choose and how much movement and what kind of movement would be needed in that section of the song.

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After Effects Workshop Tutorial

Again i looked at what other students had made during workshops and listened to what they said they did and tried it out myself. I made some quick flower shapes in photoshop and imported them into after effects, each flower has its own layer and they all rotate at different paces and rotate opposite ways.

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This is a page from my sketch book. After looking at my previous tests i feel that a white background against the block shapes i plan to do in my animation is to harsh and i want to soften it up some how and also make it look old like 1940’s black and white since i have mentioned this in my research previously. So i started to think about effects i could add to it, either manually in photoshop when making my frames or even in after effects over the top of my animation. Either way it will look the same but i think it would look a little cleaner and come together easier if i added it at the end in after effects.

This is how the piano/abstract part of my animation is going to look. I Followed my plan but doubled each frame so that it didn’t flick through and look blurry, i wanted it to work and flow properly, not be jerky. I also doubled the entire frames to make the piano motion last longer, last as long as i wanted it too.

If i were to change anything about it i would make the whole thing not so clean looking, i think the colours are to blocky (although that is what i want) i think the animation would look better if i added some sort of effect to make it look old. I will look into this further.