Motion & Art
These projects show my various styles of animation and illustration. The way I created the four digital paintings of Japanese food is my most common style but I experiment with many forms. My process for most of my work is to first do several sketches on paper then pull in the drawing into a tablet and start transforming it digitally. Composition is just as important as any other element of art, for that reason I tried steering away from the traditional method of centering artwork in the Japanese food illustrations. I wanted to compose the art in a way that allowed the different elements within the food to be displayed in a playful and clean manner. In terms of animation, I love trying new mediums and creative methods to convey a message. Displayed are some small projects that depict my experience with claymation and motion graphics.
UOTY an organization for Orthodox Tewahedo Youth asked me to animate a script they wrote. The process started with reading the script and creating story board with thumbnails i latter elaborated once i was happy with the rough. Unlike most animation I do, I first illustrated every frame then used aftereffects to add motion to them.
RefugeeOne
I made this motion graphic while I interned at RefugeeOne. While a majority of the illustrations were from vector image websites I added my own illustrations and modified most of them to fit the style of the animation. They were complying with these videos with footage of members of the organization speaking so I left placeholders for that. This video demonstrates my attention to timing, rhythm, and creative movements.
Claymation
For this claymation, I took 12 pictures to make a second of this Clip. This 22-second clip of self-propelling grapes turning into wine resulted in a total of 528 pictures! Claymation has become popular in advertisements in recent years. It’s a great way to capture the attention of an audience.
