Technical elements

Getting to know the technology and the software was a real challenge for me, I have found that animation is a long process, and being an impatient person, I struggled with this to begin with.


Movement throughout my animation was a struggle at times but I now feel a lot more comfortable with After Effects and the transition between Illustrator and After Effects.

One thing I learnt was how to make characters faces move, for example blinking, smiling and raising their eyebrows. It took me a while to learn all this as I chose to make my protagonists face move quite intricately, with a lot of facial detail including wrinkles, which move at certain points throughout my animatic.

 I used the transform settings to add keyframes and manipulate layers in the scene.