This project was my quarter 1 final, its a 2d animation made in animated in aftereffects. I decided to make a story about an innocent voodoo doll being used to harm the man in the background.
Pre-Production:
When I am making a story, the plot is usually more serious and that tends to bleed into my art style. But around the time I was in preproduction of this animation I was attempting to make more cute characters, and this was the result of that attempt. The inspiration for the body type of the doll was mainly from the Sackboy from the game series "Little Big Planet".
Production:
I drew all the characters limbs separately on a piece of paper and scanned them into Photoshop. I also made the background entirely in Photoshop. And after set everything up I moved it all into Aftereffects.
My Thoughts:
In the production of this I learned how to animate the scale of a certain layer. I also learned how to stylize the art to express a certain attitude. If I could change something it would probably be adding some ambient music and just managing my time better. things I would keep the same include the way the characters move(doll being more lose than human) and the process I used in preproduction. Things that I will use in later work will most likely be my preproduction process and stylizing the character instead of trying to make them super realistic.
Overall I think that this animation was successful even though I still have much to learn.
