Producing a polished, professional looping GIF
The purpose of this project was to produce a seamless looping GIF by applying animation principles like easing and timing. Starting with a storyboard we met with peer groups to get feedback on our designs pre-animating.
Producing a polished, professional looping GIF
The purpose of this project was to produce a seamless looping GIF by applying animation principles like easing and timing. Starting with a storyboard we met with peer groups to get feedback on our designs pre-animating.
Developing a visually engaging original animation concept
We started with storyboards and presented them to peer groups for feedback. We then took the provided feedback and created our seamless loops in Adobe After Effects. In light of the season we decided to create a fall scene with leaves blowing, and to create more visual appeal we added ghosts. To add some wind animation to the ghosts as well, we gave one if them a scarf. For the background of the loop we took a picture of a town and brought it into photoshop to make it illustrative with editing. We created assets for the ghosts, accessories, trees, leaves, and background and brought them all into After Effects. We started the scene off with no wind, had a gust of wind come through and then calm down to create the seamless loop. We duplicating the leaves of different sizes and rotations to create a dynamic animation and we used the same movement in the trees and scarf to have them moving together with the wind.
A creative and illustrative seamless looping GIF
The final design delivered a playful, illustrative, and creative seamless looping GIF in a 800x600 format and a 1920x1080 mp4 version/format. With a careful attention to detail, composition, and effective use of easing we created a polished animation. The client commented on the “spot on” movement and illustration style and were very happy with the final deliverable.