Idea Development & illustration Experimentation

Firstly, to being developing ideas, after researching numerous examples of kinetic typography on platforms such as YouTube, I took inspiration from these videos and began sketching initial ideas for individual animation ideas. Finding ways to condense the text down so that the screen isn’t flooded with an overabundance of body copy and instead using the animations themselves to tell the stories that would be being narrated. Sketching out my plans before spending a large amount of time animating them allows me to see a rough estimate of how effective the final outcome will look while also being able to plan how I will actually apply the key-frames ahead of time, effectively cutting down the

The beginning of the walking animation sequence is a simple three frame repeating movement, used simply to sketch out what the characters will look like roughly and how I originally plan to key-frame the movement within After Effects. This was effective in exposing any initial problems that occurred in the planning stages and allowed me to progress onto a more complicated sequence using more frames as well as actually getting to the stage of animating it digitally using After Effects.

For the parts of my animation when illustration and imagery is used I have imported files in from Adobe Illustrator, for this example i have created a animation walking sequence for a simple stick-man, although I do not yet know where this will be used within my animation, or perhaps if it will be used at all I felt it necessary to create this sequence as it is such a basic and key part of animation. Although the sequence only lasts  a total of 8 frames the fact that the 8th frame is very similar to the first it can be repeated endlessly to create a flowing walking motion. I