My first animation was created on pro – create.
I decided to create a story from the ‘fat workie’ in the point of view of the office worker.
The scenes entail a bus, a woman coming off the bus and walking home.

(Link to video in Google drive)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14jMlXh0N6gz2fQWBfD8q_ldAHMV0oZZ4?usp=sharing

 

The animation consists of a muted colour palette such as greys and dusty pink, reds and browns. I wanted the lack of bright colour to portray the atmosphere of the rainy and gloomy environment.

To create a ‘jumpy’ effect in the animation, I created very similar but different illustrations in the sequence so they would not be smooth but slightly ‘glitchy’.
The first scene is of silhouettes sat in a bus with rain pouring in the windows.

To create enough length to the illustration, I made three illustrations of the bus that had rain moving and people drawn slightly differently. I then duplicated these three slides which reduced the time of production significantly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

In the next scene, a woman figure steps out of the bus. the illustration is fairly flat with little dimension because it was easier to make a fluid story with less detail. I like the different shades of grey of the sky and ground compared to the dark red of the bus. The rain is constantly falling in the animation also.

The third scene was my favourite to create, It’s of the woman figure’s feet walking through the rain. I enjoyed it because it was a simple yet effective scene and even with so little detail other than the rain, it is obvious what is going on.
The last scene is of a front door and the woman figure appears in the scene and up to the door.  This scene adds a few pops of extra colour such as green plant and pink door. Although still a muted palette, it’s created to show the relief of getting home from work, as if everything else in the world was dull until you get home. This scene is more comforting to the eye rather than melancholic.