Project #2: Geometric Shapes

Due date: February 10, 2011

Chose a soundtrack with good rhythm and create a 30 second animation using geometric shapes.

Assets: 
The shapes can be created in Illustrator or Photoshop. Keep your design tasteful but as simple as possible—the aim is to practice animation skills.

Animation: 
You can use any transform attributes we covered: position, rotation, scale, opacity. Use the "ancor point" transform to change the center of your object when needed (for example, when you want to scale your object from the base as opposed to the center).

Use a variety of shapes and/or scenes—don't have the entire 30 seconds be two circles spinning around on a screen. Whatever you do, make sure it goes with the music.

Specs:

Format: 1280 x 720 @ 29.97 fps
Render: quicktime with h264 compression or mpeg4. Make sure to render with audio!


Reference: (also posted in the inspiration section)
* Some of these videos may contain animation a bit fancier than what we covered. Focus on the mood, the speed and ponder how you could achieve similar results could be achieved using the transform attributes.

Tim Finn: CMYoKay
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3333134361/
Frater Films: Youth Music Box
http://vimeo.com/6248465
Studio AKA: BUPA Fell Better campaign
http://www.studioaka.co.uk/#/work-bupafeelbettercampaign
Janet Perlaman: Sorry Film Not Ready
http://vimeo.com/17849456
Frater Films: Oxfam Swap It
http://vimeo.com/2979309