The alien scene was really fun to create. Firstly, Ducky animated the blink of the aliens, using my style frame as reference:
(Ducky's Work)
I then brought that into After Effects and animated the eye movements, general movement of the aliens, the BG stars, the phone, the giffgaff doodles and finally added halftone texture and a cutout style. Here's the final scene:
I'm really happy with how this turned out overall. I found it quite challenging as although on paper it is quite simple, I had a lot of technical difficulties and had to do a lot of problem solving to get it to look clean and how I pictured it. Due to this, I ended up learning a lot about after effects that I can use for future projects. I learned more about particle generation for the space BG, how to incoporate textures into your work and also the workflow between Animate and After Effects. Doing this also helped me explore subtle motion more, and allowed me to use the CC Bend it too more extensively.
Creating the cutout style was also quite challenging as originally I didn't know how to do it and tried a few different workarounds until I found out how to just add a border, for which I then roughed it up to make it look more like paper.
Overall this scene allowed me to explore After Effects in more detail and try new things out, and I think it flows very well, and the half-tone texture and cutout style help it mesh with the other scenes despite the difference in medium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4NIWsuf20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9uxAmqt5aQ&list=WL&index=119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuLMBZXFUZ8
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