Here is a quick animation that I put together for the Philosophy section of the new Mediasauce website with Larry's help on initial concept, Mitch as writer and voice talent, Mike as the Creative Director, and Andy as audio extraodinaire. It was nice to have some freedom on the direction of the design and animation style. I enjoyed sketching some of the elements with a pen that were included in the design, and it was fun to jump into Maya briefly to create the root animation. Thanks for the Maya crash course Joseph!
I have to say, the project went relatively smoothly until I tried to mess with the temporal properties of my position key frames in the graph editor. I dont quite understand why the key frame splits or why you cant angle the handles to make the curve you're after. It's something I definitely need to investigate further because it was driving me crazy! I look forward to spending more time on the next piece like this one and incorporating more pizazz and 2ndary movement.
Here's an image of the design I used for the animation. The photos all came from personal travel photos I've taken and the flower designs are the result of some fun with pen and ink. I liked how they turned out and would love to make a funky fabric based on them at some point.
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