Illustration Friday - Aquatic (unfinished)

I haven't finished this one. I've been struggling a lot with depression over this last year and I'm finding it really hard to focus on responsive

Study Task 6

The BBC 2 stings are very simple and short, using mostly simple ideas and movements, accompanied by appropriate simple sounds. Often, they rely on humour displayed in a short space of time, which is what I want to achieve with my stings!


I like this sting, because it's very simple in concept and idea, but the animations are all very smooth and the sting is paced very well. For a few seconds, the logo doesn't move, to give the viewer time to actually take it in. I think in my stings I will use pacing for comic effect. The image and animation transformations respond to the sound, as well as the sound responding to the movement - there is a reciprocal relationship between the two.

Study Task 5

I didn't properly complete study task 5 - I didn't find it particularly useful to draw the same scenario out 5 times with a different aspect moving in a specific different way each time. I don't like to plan things too much sometimes, which can result in work that is not my best. but it can also give me an opportunity to have fun and experiment! Sometimes I feel like I need to get out of my own head sometimes and not plan things to every tiny detail.

Because I've not used After Effects before, I kinda want to get to know the program through playing around with it, while making my stings. And I know my stings are going to be fairly simple in order to fit in the narrative and humour that I want to convey in 10 seconds. Plus having the author's name at the end.

I made a couple of very rough, quick storyboards, thinking about how the elements of the flatmate/rat scene would move:

Film Society - Grand Budapest Hotel

 Research - lots of pink. I want to focus on character

 Again, I wanted to do this digitally, but I didn't leave myself enough time.