Week 11: Crunch time + the Money Shot

let's dive into the emotional journey that is me figuring out a workflow :)

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feedback from the render shot

overall I feel that my shot was well received! Here are some of the biggest comments I got

• the animation is feeling so warm, soft, and polished! Try to keep this standard throughout

• find more ways to integrate those vignetted textures, they add so much

• people are hype for the plan for my final shot! finally sound a dynamic way to end the film

• keep moving!!! still lots of animation to go :,)

after effects baybeeeeee

In an attempt to eat my frogs in the morning, my first goal was to tackle how I was going to execute what I feel is my most important shot. Above is the final result, and here's how I did it!

1. The base of the whole animation is a bunch of lines contained in a shape layer, I first tried key framing the "emerging" feeling using the liquify tool, but that offered me almost no control over the final look, so I opted to manipulate each line individually with the pen tool (it only required me to set up two key poses!) first putting a keyframe at their final position, then going to the beginning, then keyframe them at a straightened position

2. I used the graph editor to manipulate the speed at which the emerging happens

3. threw so... so many effects on there (turbulent displace, rough edges, posterize time, etc) all in an attempt to keep the whole thing from feeling too "computer-y"

4. messed around with the colors and textures! I imported some boiling textures I made and manipulated their look with lumetri color, you can see them in the background, as well as subtly within the lines themself!

this was a huge lesson in trial and error, but I really love navigating after effects and finding creative ways to achieve what's in my brain and slap it on the screen :) It was a nice variety to my more hand drawn frame by frame dominated workflow.

my lovely lovely colorists/mask wranglers <3

I was thinking about the best way to streamline coloring in my film the look I'm going for is something similar to show they do the patterned filled in chowder, only the patterns will be boiling textures for my case. I attempted a workflow within TV paint but masking out areas where the textures will live makes more sense to my crazy brain.

Moving the mask and baby sitting it's movement to match the animation's is a bit tedious, so I have three lovely mask wranglers to help me out with this process (thanks julia, sangeeta, and makenna! <3)