Droopy
Glasses
About Me
Through The
Eyes Of A Child
Eyes Of A Child
University Project Year - 2024
The Mood
For This Project, I had wanted to create a mixed media style animation. Using photography backgrounds and putting animated characters on top.
With this in mind, I researched a variety of designers and tv shows to draw from, these decisions also influenced my visual style and designs for the characters.
Character Designs
Before I even got started on my short’s narrative, I explored a variety of character designs, namely using shape language and silhouettes as a visual indicator for how the characters would behave.
With my research and case studies in mind, I used the approach of anthropomorphic dog designs to allow the story to be relatable regardless of where the someone is from.
I designed a variety of adult and child versions of each character and decided to go with the dogs with the long ears due to peer feedback.
Unedited
Edited
Photography
With the chracters established, I explored my local area took photos that I could use as backgrounds for my characters to explore and have their little adventure.
I edited the photos to hyper extend their summer aesthetic to further associate it with growing up and how a young kid could see the world around them.
Rough Animation
Frame By Frame Experiments
As this was my first project using frame by frame animation, I created 4 different scenes of my two characters doing some kind of ‘sibling-like’ activity in a small variety of locations.
Final Animations
With the animations cleaned up, I combined the two in after effects and used some small effects make the characters fit in the real world.