Assignment 3

This time, I wanted to incorporate my own drawings and make a collage-type composition. I drew a weird looking five-tentacled creature with a pet slug, a lady moon, and three blobs (boogers?) with faces by hand and scanned it.


I also cut out a couple of images from a travel abroad catalog and scanned them.


Then I composed a background made of a few textures I found on the Internet. I put the images together in Photoshop.


I wanted the creature to walk across the background. The camera would be a smaller frame which follows the creature as it moves.

First, I keyframed the main creature's position, and I manipulated the speed graph so that it would start slow and accelerate, mimicking the way a jellyfish propels itself through water. I used the puppet tool to move the tentacles, but I think I could have made the movements more exaggerated. I used only the puppet tool on the yellow slug on the main guy's head. I think that was a more successful animation because it looks rather slug-like.

I also used variable time on the blue blob when it falls. I made it accelerate as it fell, also stretching it out and squishing it when it hit the ground.

After about halfway through my animating, I realized that it was already 10 seconds long and I wasn't sure if I would have enough time to finish the 2nd half so I will save the second half for a future project or maybe finish it on my own.. So I guess you can say this video ends in a cliffhanger :)

Oh and this has sound! I got the clips from freesound.org

Rainy Day from Chiang Leng on Vimeo.