Vintage Travel Poster Animation March 2024
Huge shoutout to Kelly Schanes for hosting March's animation retro collab, using vintage travel posters! I knew as soon as I saw this poster that I wanted to make it move! I really challenged myself this time to consider an intro leading into the poster, using the various background elements. And this piece was SCREAMING for some sound design!
Original Print: David Klein - "Las Vegas" - 1955
First thing I needed to do was recreate the character with shape layers and rig up her limbs for motion in After Effects!
After I finished the body shapes and animated her, I duplicated and added the clothing/color changes, so it would be a seamless transition when she moved into the night time masked area.
You can't celebrate Las Vegas without a glitz and glitter!
Early work in progress test with the slide over character mask
FINAL animation with a sound pass!
MidCentury Modern Print Animation February 2024
Such a great collab, hosted by Marc Lawrence! Check out the full collab video HERE on Marc's LinkedIn!
13 of us were tasked with taking an existing Mid Century Modern static print, and making it move, however we were inspired to do so!
When I saw Alvin Lustig's "Arts & Architecture Magazine " piece from 1945 in the mix, I called dibs immediately!
I've been so inspired by collage animation, and learning new ways to animate textures in After Effects, so I knew I wanted to apply that. I also could see these stacked chairs animating like a deck of cards, so that was a challenge figuring out how to break each one apart so they could interlock visually and move independently with a bit of an offset.
13 of us were tasked with taking an existing Mid Century Modern static print, and making it move, however we were inspired to do so!
When I saw Alvin Lustig's "Arts & Architecture Magazine " piece from 1945 in the mix, I called dibs immediately!
I've been so inspired by collage animation, and learning new ways to animate textures in After Effects, so I knew I wanted to apply that. I also could see these stacked chairs animating like a deck of cards, so that was a challenge figuring out how to break each one apart so they could interlock visually and move independently with a bit of an offset.
Original Print: Alvin Lustig - Arts & Architecture Magazine - 1945
My FINAL animation!
FULL motion collab by the whole team!
Here is my "behind the scenes" workflow for animating Alvin Lustig's "Arts & Architecture Magazine " print!