Short Animated Video

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For my short animated video, I chose to do a stop motion video using After Effects. This project was a challenge for me and I think for some parts of the video I took too many photos so I had to change it to 30 frames per second and for the ending I think I took too few pictures so the end of the video is too fast and it gets hard to see what happens at the end, but the stop motion as a whole is about someone who books a flight online, excitedly packs and gets ready to head to the airport, gets to the aiport and finds out her flight already departed.

Story Board for Stop Motion Video

This is my story board for my stop motion animated video. For the final scene I might change the character chasing the plane to her looking at the missed flights board at the airport.

Collage Environment

For my collage environment I really wanted to incorporate features of London but I was also inspired by Coldplay's Adventure of a Lifetime which is where I got my song lyric from but I was also inspired by artist Eduardo Recife which is why I added diamonds and planets. The background I used is just the picture of Stonehenge and then I added the rocks at the bottom of the image. I also added the telephone booth, the chimpanzees, the diamonds, E.T. on the bike, the planets and the UFO.

To create the rock layer, I found an image of a rocky shoreline on the internet and used the magnetic lasso tool to cut some rocks from that image and then I just changed the sizes of the rocks and overlapped them to create this rocky foreground effect. For my telephone booth I used the eraser tool to make the windows go from white to looking more transparent and I used the brush tool to make blades of grass come up over the telephone booth and I used it around the rocks as well. For each of the added images to this background I used the eraser tool on the edges to make each figure look a little less like a cut out with hard edges.