An early student assignment originally made as a 5" x 7" notecard flipbook. I captured each notecard as a frame and added horribly low quality and royalty-free sound effects.
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My first student animatic project, in which I had to choose from a list of general "themes" and elaborate with simple moving storyboards and sound. I chose a scene involving two hitmen preparing to kill a target. Music: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd.
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Project objective: create any kind of motion or imagery based upon a song chosen from a limited selection. I bought some incense, bummed a cigarette, took my digital camera into my room and started recording smoke plumes. When my original assumption that making smoke rings would be easy turned out to be completely false, I scrounged up some fuzzy yarn and used it to animate the smoke rings on a flat black surface. Keying, coloring & compositing in After Effects. Music: "No Agreement" by Fela Kuti.
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Part of a two-part assignment to create a narration using 20 still images as the foundation. Photos of Savannah and a Google image search for businessmen and hound dogs all came together in Photoshop to create the stills, which were then finished off with subtle motion in After Effects. Music: "Oxford You Really Owe Me" by Soul Position.
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