Life as A Punk Rocker
My final intern project for Pixel Park Studio to highlight the progress of developing a concept to final animation.
Music plays an important part in my life and self expression. The world can be overwhelming and make you feel you have to wear a mask to fit in. Music helps me feel free to express myself and be who I am.
Step 1: Concept and Mood Board
I started by creating my own concept. I was inspired by the punk scene and how music can help let you break free and be yourself. I included a mood board and some examples of animations I was also inspired by.
Step 2: Sketches
The next step I like to sketch with very rough sketches in my sketch book to just got out some initial ideas to get the creative processes started.
Step 3: Story board
Once I had an idea of the direction I wanted to go I grabbed my IPad and worked on some cleaner sketches for the follow of the video.
Step 4: Design Boards
Since I planned to use photo real images along with illustration inspired by the old school punk flyers, I worked in Photoshop to create the final designs.
Step 5: Animatic
Next to work on the timing of the video I put together an animatic along with the music I chose.
Step 6: Motion Tests
On the Right: I set up a character rig using DUIK to animate the character playing guitar. I am still working on my character animation skills and I had a really good time working on this.
On the Left: I wanted to add texture to the design so I worked on looping texture animations that I layered into the animation.