Esao Andrews

balloon over sea

Girl on swing

tree swing

tree on hillside

tree in silhouette

Forest setting

Practising with After Effects

Practising using key frames to make the text gradually appear.

Scale Text

Scale text 2

Slight Rotation

scale up text

skew text

dropping letters

rotating dropping letters

scale rotate

scale rotate colour

New Text

changing starting colours

larger text

Shattered 3D text

Flattened Type

Unreal City

This was just a test to animate text with the words being spoken 

Soryboard Ideas

The animation starts off in a wooded forest, it has a slightly creepy feeling, with a blue tone to the background representing the evening. Everything is in silhouette with only the blue background providing any kind of colour. 

This part of the animation will be created within after effects as i feel this i can achieve the fluid motion that i want.

 The camera pans in, going through the trees, there will be birds in silhouette flying past aswell.

 Going through the forest an opening appears , there are also performers within the forest. In the distance a girl on a hill looking out to sea can be seen.

 This part of the animation will be more traditional hand held shadow puppets, having taken inspiration from the Surf advert which combined the two effects i thought the two technique might compliment each other well.

 Scenes from the forest disappear and the scene of the girl is in full view, the sea and the ballon are separate objects which will animated by hand. 

As the balloon flies past the Sky Arts logo appears. At the current time I'm not sure how I'm going to produce this, whether to create it in the computer or by hand to fit the overall theme, i think i may try both and see which outcome is the best.