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So here is a little progress report. The first day was animating the character, the second day was figuring out what should be going on, and the third day was getting the backgrounds made. As you can see, i opted to go full 3D. This is pretty basic and i’ll be adding details such as signage, cars and other people, but i like how this is coming out so far.

As you’ve seen in Rick Black, i’m fond of mask interpolation in Adobe After Effects. It consists of me making my keyframes in Illustrator and pasting each path onto a solid layer as a mask in After Effects. The technique is vastly time consuming and tedious but being able to manipulate the time between keyframes and frames per second, which you can probably do in Flash, is a pretty nice trade-off.

The difference between this and Rick Black as you can see is the use of color. Since i have to make a mask for each moving piece, i ended up with 27 different layers to make the character which is a huge step up from Black’s five (the arms were separate).

The finished video will showcase a few techniques i’ve yet to experiment with so it won’t be anything too fancy or mindblowing. stay tuned.