1st Term: Photoshop And After Effects: Animation Cut Out

I will assume that my previous post about my Photoshop and After Effects lesson was seen, and I will just state now that this is a continuation of that post. If you haven't seen the previous post on it feel free to catch up, go back and have a look through before reading this. If not, no problem, we can just jump right into it. This post should not be too long either way.

For this weeks lesson we moved away from doing practice animations on Photoshop and After Effects and began with the real deal. We were given a project a few weeks back to create a 20 second animation with music put over it. (Basically to create a quick music video.) We were each assigned an artist to look at and we were instructed to use that given artists work to include in the music videos. We can edit the pictures how ever we want and we had to fit it all within the timeline of 20 seconds. My given artist was George Grosz. I don't know much about him, but he was a German artist in the 1950's and quite a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New York Objectivity groups at the time of the Weimar Republic. He is best known for his caricatural drawings and paintings produced of the Berlin life around the 1920's.

This Thursday we were taught how to cut and copy sections of images on Photoshop. E.g-if we wanted to make a copy of just a characters head or arm in the picture. This was relevant as later we would be using the segmented layers of the images to move onto After Effects and animate into moving for the music video. To be honest I was very tired to start working on the animation on After Effects, so I just cut and copied my images on Photoshop, segmenting the limbs of the characters that I would make move in my animation. At the very least that part of the process is out of the way and I only have one thing to focus on now which is the animation on After Effects.

Anyway, enough from me. This is an early picture of what I was doing. There were more images worked on other than what I have shown but it should give a brief overview and idea of what I was up to.

Despite the many drawings I had taken to use, as I got into editing the animation on After Effects and Premier Pro, I realized I only needed two images for what I wanted to create. During this time I had also taken up an interest in the depicted images of Hindu gods and how kaleidoscopic the pictures were due to them being done with multiple arms or heads. I wanted to take inspiration from the images and include something somewhat similar of it into my 20 second music video. Since the song I had chosen was quite eerie and had a very slow pace, I thought it would be relevant to use two depressing caricature characters of George Grosz works, and have them spread out and multiply slowly on the screen as the song played.

My chosen song was Is This the life I Chose by Aaryan Shah. His songs are often quite slow paced and mostly contain sad messages; often giving the reader some sense of emptiness or loneliness as they listen.

2O SECOND MUSIC VIDEO

With all that being said and shown. Thank you for your time, and I will see you in my next upload.