Project 1 - Kade Wilson

 Week 2

This week I began working on Project 1. I decided to make an animation themed around Eleanor Antin's conceptual artwork "One Hundred Boots." This artwork is a series of photographs which depict 100 sets of boots traveling from California to New York. My first step was to make the storyboard. I sketched the first three scenes of the animation which depict the boots walking over the hills and then through the countryside. I postponed drawing the rest of the storyboard due to classwork and decided to finish it at a later date. I also began drawing the objects I would need for my first scene in Adobe Illustrator.

Week 3

This week I finished creating all of the objects I needed for my project in Adobe Illustrator and began working in Adobe After Effects. In order to make it look like the boots were walking over the hills I decided to create a circle of boots which rotates over hills. When enough boots cross over the hills more will appear over another hill to make it seem like they are moving steadily forward. It was challenging to execute this design, but ultimately I think it turned out well.

Week 4

This week I started working on scene 2 of my project. This scene depicts the boots passing by a farm. I first assembled the scene in illustrator using stock images of boots, birds, and the background. Then I took these objects into illustrator and animated them. To make it easier to animate the boots I chose to animate one boot and then duplicate it several times so that I would not have to repeat the process too many times.

Week 5

This week I completed my storyboard, scenes 2 and scene 3, as well as began working on scene 4. For scene 2 I adjusted the speed of the boots to make the animation seem less slow, and added more boots to fill the unused time. I also decided that the scene was fairly empty so I added some cows, one of which has a chewing animation. For scene 3 I decided the boots would walk in circles around a gas station and then move on, so I used the pen tool to make a path for them. Their position follows the path I created for them and they rotate at specific intervals to match their position.

Week 6

This week I exported the scenes I have made so far for the mini-review. I have a good amount of work done on this project, but there is still a lot of work to do before this project is complete. I also finished working on scene 4. This scene shows the boots walking down the street in a city as cars drive by. It was difficult to find images of cars with the correct perspective to match my background, but ultimately I found two fitting candidates.

Week 7

This week I finished working on Project 1. I fully constructed scenes 5 through 9 in Illustrator and animated them in After Effects. I then brought all of my scenes together in Premiere and added sound effects. It was difficult to find music and sound effects that fit the theme of my project, but eventually I found the perfect soundtrack. Ultimately I am quite happy with the finished product.