By Mikaela Arnold
For this assignment, I brought my original character, Clicky, to life . I used two programs to create this animation- Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 and Adobe After Effects CC 2018. I also used my Wacom 22 HD Cinq tablet, I first opened up Photoshop and created a small document that is the size of a index card. I first drew a background with the Wacom tablet.
The background is placed on a separate layer with the line outlines. I put the main character on a different layer and the elements that move are put on their own layers. There are two door layers- one opened and one close. I exported the file to a png file each time I moved the character. In all, I had 14 storyboards that were imported After Effects. I first rendered a version with just the storyboard, next I downloaded sound effects and ambiance noise.
For the second version of this video I colored the whole set with Adobe Illustrator CC 2018 useing the line art drawing I made with Photoshop. I decided to focus on the animation principle of anticipation.
Updated video
Video description
Meet Clicky the TV remote. He is a half humanoid and tv remote living in Holiday, Florida. The oldest of three siblings. He loves to play with his owner and hides under the couch. He hates the family cat as it always like to chew on him.
Sound effects used:
400331__inspectorj__cicada-close-a
344360__amholma__door-open-close
164189__bmoreno__0386-gwangjang-market
321641__vinnie-palermo__glass-breaking
https://freesound.org/
