The Lifting Tower - Opening Night

On the night that all of our animations got put up on the tower, we all went down to see and it was great. It was really rewarding to see everybody's work being projected in such a public place.

Note: not all of the work in the photograph above is mine! 

The final animations produced will be submitted separately, simply because I didn't see much benefit from adding them to my youtube sight, because not only are then animation very short and festive, but they also don't have a strong link to my interests as a practitioner. 

What I learnt from this experience

This brief was really enjoyable and I feel it reminded me what it was like to work collaboratively & with new people from different areas in the art industry. It was also really interesting to work in collaboration with Lumin and to have our work being shown in such a business related area. This experience really reiterated the importance of communication when working collaboratively, not just with my peers but also with Jimmy from Lumin, who was helping to run this projection. 

It also made me realise that when working with projection, aspects such as colour & simplicity need to be thoroughly considered, because once something is projected, it looks quite different to how it does on screen. It also gave me the opportunity to get some experience down on my CV!

The Lifting Tower Project - New Group

After getting together with the rest of the illustrators & graphic designers, it seemed more appropriate to have a mix of professions in each group. Therefore, James and I separated from Lauren & Emma and instead joined with a graphic designer names charlie & an illustrator named Tom. This immediately sparked more ideas because Charlie and tom had some of their own ideas too.

We ended up scrapping the original ideas from our previous group however we did take the idea of the ball of light moving through trees and altered it. It instead became a christmas candy worm! Since we all had our ideas, we discussed them all at length and then decided we would all take charge of our own animation. We were also prepared to offer ay technical help needed to the other two, however Tom seemed pretty familiar with After Effects, so it was just a matter of making sure Charlie was comfortable with what he was doing.

In the end, since animating in After Effects is quite fast, combined with the request that these animations being quite simple, Charlie passed on the assets to James who then animated them.

My Contribution 

For my section of the animation, I was to animate a candy worm moving through trees and lighting them up one by one! Something that needed to be considered when designing the layout was that there is a window in the lifting tower that is hollow. So it seemed logical to incorporate this.

Above is the concept work I created for my animation. Although the worm would only be visible on screen for a number of seconds, I wanted to establish how it would look when in motion. For the animation of the worm alone, I used photoshop instead of after effects, because it seemed more appropriate to draw it frame by frame.