#finalanimation

It is done. After weeks of suffering, rage, and sudden peace, the FINAL ANIMATION CLIP (5 seconds) with Lights and Shadows is here!

I genuinely loved creating this animation. You might notice the process videos skipped the detailed shading—that's because the rest of the magic was added in After Effects! I decided it wasn't the most engaging content to record, even though I enjoyed the process myself.

Note the intentional style: The lights and shadows are simple and clean. For a chibi style, I prefer this minimalist approach; it makes the character pop!

TEASER: I plan to use this full animation as a stream alert—you'll see the magic when someone hits that follow button live!

The work is perfect! The character is beautiful! The curse is complete! Future William, your punishment is now to upload this finished masterpiece while enduring your job in Canada! I AM FREE!

EL GRAN FINAL: Animación Chibi de Abril Whitmore (¡100% TERMINADA!)

Se acabó. ¡El clip final de animación (5 segundos) con luces y sombras ya está aquí! ¡La animación está 100% terminada! El proceso de sombreado se hizo en After Effects (no lo grabé, no era contenido divertido). Las luces son simples porque me gusta más ese estilo para los chibis. ¡Espero que les guste!

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"Type as Hero" is the two part brief for MM2, this being the second part for social media promotional animations. I was given Raleway at the beginning of the project, and the theme I ended up choosing for the type specimen book and the animations was 'Railway', a train theme.

Overall, I am happy with the result of my final 2 animations and I think I have created something unique with the use of type with weight and motion. I made multiple animations, but I thought they were the most coherent and offered two different things while remaining a pair.

The only problem that I have with my two animations is they don’t show the weights, glyphs, etc. but my reason for this is because it would make it too long, but it would also take away from the animation. By this, I mean that the animations are already complex, and I think a viewer of them would be more interested in the motion and how the typeface could be used practically rather than showing what the typeface has available.

Final 2 Animations

I misunderstood the final hand-in and didn't realise that we were handing in 2 reformatted animations. These are the two final animations I will be handing in. These are the GIF files, I will render them in MP4 for file hand-in.

I chose these two animations because I thought they contrasted but paired with each other nicely. I think the idea of the moving characters with weight is something unique that others won't use in their animations.

The rolling text is also unique, but the motion with weight is my favourite part of the animations, and the contrast of illustration and describing the text with the same outcome pairs them nicely together.

I didn't decide to use my other animation because if I used it with the rolling text, they would be too similar and if I used it with the train animation, they'd be totally different. I think the most coherent two GIFs to go together are these two which is why I have chosen them.

First Design Idea - Both GIFs

With this design idea, I wanted to use rolling characters to create motion with weight.

My main goal was to create motion with the characters that had weight to it. I wanted to create transitions that were more interesting than wipes and that could keep a viewer engaged because you don't know what will happen next.

The reason for doing one with a train illustration and one with the characteristics is to show two different sides of the typeface while using the same format/style. I think the train one is more fun, whereas the characteristics is more of a showcase.