504 - Intro Scenes

To start this scene I animated the phone. Ducky created the asset for it:

(Ducky's work)

I then created the arms in after effects using a shape layer and offset keyframing, and added my drawn hand asset onto the end of it, to create this:

From there I added this to the phone and used CC Bend it to add some more movement. Here's the final phone animation:

Once this was done, I then animated it and the text, using google to help me learn how to do things.

As this is meant to be an advert that the character is looking at, I wanted to add some effects to help show that it is being viewed at on a screen, so I made 2 different versions. Here they are:

The main animation for these scenes is done, I just need to add wiggles as well as maybe some motion on the landfill.

I found this quite challenging but also very fun, as I learnt a lot about after effects in the process and ways to tackle things. 

I think that these scenes are snappy and visually satisfying, but I could have made the text motion feel more like an object than text following a line. Also, I could have exaggerated the phone's arm movement more as it is quite subtle from the small size.

Here are some of the sources I used to help me with after effects:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOUTLzAiDX0&ab_channel=MotionArrayTutorials 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRP94C98Uhc&ab_channel=ShortTuts 
• https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/text-on-a-path-is-anchored-by-top-of-text-instead-of-bottom-is-there-a-way-to-change-anchor/td-p/10865978