The Nerdy Cartoonist

This was fun to make. I used audio from an old SpongeBob episode. I decided to go with simple shapes as opposed to making a lot of the assets in Illustrator. I wanted to see just how much I could make only using After Effects. Making the character and the background were no trouble at all. The real hard part was trying to figure out how to animate the mouth. I decided to mess with the scale of the mouth and keeping the same shape. Then I got the idea to duplicate the layer and add an opacity to the inside and color it black. It turned out a lot better than I was expecting.

I really enjoyed how this turned out. I would like to do more of this, but it does take a while. I think out of all of the software we have used in this class, After Effects might be my favorite. I did a song from the game Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight. It is a remix of the song, "Last Surprise" from the original Persona 5 video game. I tried to replicate the graphic art of Persona 5 as well as I could. The colors match, I recreated some of the text using Illustrator, and the cityscape is a graphic seen in the game, too. This was probably my favorite out of all of the projects. I might make another using the main theme from Persona 4.

 The rotorscope was easily the most tedious project. It took forever just to get one second worth of animation completed. I decided to do a clip from a video of martial arts. The pauses in movement made it a little more bearable to do all of this animation. It looks really nice when completed, but you need some insane patience to do this kind of animation.