Parklife

Challenge

I challenged myself to create a 60 second animation that explores the use of humour and character animation.

Solution

This is a passion project of mine which explores the weird and wonderful things I spotted in my local park on the early morning walk to work. I was eager to make the most out of the humourous moments I saw through motion graphics and character animation.

I created all of the illustrations and edited together the animation sequences in After Effects. I designed a complex head rig to enable a fake 3D effect. The motion was all driven by one controller and produces a 2.5D parallax effect. I used sound effects to drive the humour and set the context. These were added to the timeline using animation composer.

Software used included Illustrator, After Effects and Audition.