In order to produce a 2.5D illustration for the >45 second animation I first used Photoshop to layer, edit and colour the drawings. Following this process I imported the layers into After Effects where I was able to align the drawings using reference points from each of the layers referencing the levels of London landmarks and my proposal.
By first addressing the depth of the composition I could immediately see the potential and restrictions of each of the layers. The screenshots above demonstrate the stages of animating the layers, including the 3D rotation of the text statistics, linear movement of the River Thames and 3D movement and scaling of the clouds.
Much of the animation is animation is organised around the use of 3 cameras: the first with a simple pan in the y-axis, the second following a path in the x,y and z axis, and the third concluding the short with a simple pan in the x-axis.
The final stage to the production of the animation was to import and edit in Adobe Premier Pro, allowing me to apply the score - Yann tiersen's 'Soir de Fête'.
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