Cool Tape Reel Animation!

Saw this video today on Youtube. Well, of course the song is lovely, but the thing that really got my attention was the animation with the tape reel.

 

I wonder how that was done... really interested in finding out! 

New Discovery!!!

I still remember the first lecture. I went in, I sat down, and I panicked.

Coz I've never done Animation / Motion Graphics before.

I can't even make my stick man walk in flash animations.

So.

I REALLY (like really really) PANICKED.

Thought I was gonna screw up for sure.

 And ...

6 weeks later...

My first assessment due.

And I COULD ANIMATE STUFF!!!!!

So yeah... I'm not that bad at animated stuff after all... =p... although I could definitely do much much better.

I guess having taken the time to explore AE and messing around with some of the functions, animation using AE isn't too hard, just time consuming, like all other design related stuff (even photoshop can be extremely time consuming).

I wouldn't say I'm a fast learner, though I think I managed to pick up AE in quite a reasonably short amount of time, probably due to the fact that this time, I actually have some sort of guidance, unlike previously when I taught myself everything I knew on Illustrator and Photoshop.

Looking forward to the rest of the tuts and the final assessment!

I've kind of gotten a rough idea of where I wanna head towards with the final assessement. Since I've got all these drawings lying around waiting to be turned into a book or something. I bet my muses wouldn't mind either. Plus, there's that added benefit of not having to trawl through the net looking for Creative Commons images to use. =)

Since my first assessment is about didi dreaming, my final shall be about the first ever character in my drawing series: iki!

I'm gonna tell iki's story in 2 mins. Doable? Definitely. First step? Find paper ball animation stuff online (I wanna open the scene with a paper ball un-crumpling itself).