Final Term 1 Project

For the project I was set to make a 15 second animation on after effects with my chosen theme, characters and setting. It was just to show through our after effects lectures we had learnt how to use it of our own back:

Walking towards camera (Shading test)

As a character walks into the camera, a good way to make a transition to the next frame or scene is to make the character fade out to a silhouette:

UFO shadow (Shading test)

For my final project, a giant ship of some kind is going to fly over the main character, causing a shadow effect:

Robot walking (redo)

I changed this test slightly by making the head and arms catch up with the body after the bounce:

Robot walking (Movement test)

This test was made to see if i could create the illusion of the character walking from a front camera view from making it bounce slowly and zooming the camera in:

Robot shooting (Shooting test)

Here I was testing anticipation and the recoil of a character when it fires a weapon:

Spaceship test (Movement test)

I'm going for a sci-fi theme for the animated short project so I tested spaceship movement and mechanics: