TITLE: Newsworthy
YOUR ROLE: Director, Animator
MEDIA: 2D Animation
SOFTWARE: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop
DURATION: 1:00
CLASS: 4D Animation
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 20
INSTITUTION: Ringling College of Art And Design
DESCRIPTION: Being a long time fan of the anime ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’, when my 4D Animation class had us do a project wherein we find and animate an interesting news article, I decided to report on the life sized Gundam statue still under construction at the time in Japan. After finding a recent article describing such and selecting sections of it, I decided to make the animation’s color scheme blue and yellow due to both colors appearing on the actual Gundam itself; with a hint of black as a nice mediator of sorts. In order to get the assets I needed for the animation, I turned to a free clipart website and, to my surprise, managed to locate plenty of Gundam related images, including two full body images of the machine! One of the images was taken into Photoshop so I could split its limbs up into multiple smaller images in order to animate them, as one section of the article describes the Gundam moving about. Surprisingly, I went on to submit this animation to the American Advertising Awards and worn a Silver ADDY Award for it!