Project 1 Progress - Ash Turnmire

First off I chose a song, figured out the designs of the characters I'd be using, and started with the storyboards. I pulled ideas from the time period the song was released in, so the characters are supposed to give off 1890s vibes. 

Some more storyboards! I wanted to get a rough idea of the start before I started animating.

To start the animations, I made some gifs using FireAlpaca (my software of choice). These are for the first scene after the introduction.

I made the background in Illustrator, then finished up the gifs and put them in Adobe After Effects. I decided to make all the people gifs with black lines on the outside to distinguish them from the background, and colored lines on the inside to soften them up. 

 

This gif was really annoying to make for some reason, it took awhile to get the posing right without making it blurry or anatomically inaccurate. 

I also made some assets and stills! The assets have transparent backgrounds so I can move them around, and the stills are a bit bigger than the screen size so that I can pan over them without making them blurry.

Here you can see me making the assets move and rotate and also me layering gifs to ease up the workload.

Sadly I didn't get the entire project done, but I will try to get it done on my own time during spring break. When that happens, I'll update this again!