Project 1 - Hailey Beach

 

This was my first week's progress on the first animation. I am primarily using the Puppet Pin tool, as that is what I am used to, in order to manipulate the spaceman in the water. My idea was to make the spaceman eventually go underwater, and resurface again as some sort of sea monster/alien. The second screenshot showcases an issue I had while moving my source files around a bit. After Effects was no longer able to find my source files, and the screenshot showcases the process in order to fix this issue.

Week 2:

This week, I mainly focused on adding more animation and effects to small details in the image. I created water movement, stars flickering, background light movement, and particle effects. This week was really just used to try and get these effects right, as I have not used them for a while.

Week 3:

This week I started up my first test render of the project. I meant for the ending to work out in the way that the spaceman would disappear and evil eyes would appear in the water. However, in the render, the ending messes up and shows the spaceman still. But, for some reason, I actually liked this mistake. I think it looked a lot cooler in the final render, so I decided to keep this mistake. The final video render turned out pretty smooth in my opinion; I am happy with the way my animation turned out.