Allegorie
An unsuspecting ink man is thrown into a strange world of faces on the wall, umbrellas and muscular heart men.
Hand drawn animation, 4:06 min
Description
Over the course of six weeks I created an animated story frame by frame, based on the word “strange”. It is about a character navigating through various aspects of young life.
- The 403 panels used to create the project were drawn by hand and later edited with Photoshop CC, iMovie and Premiere Pro CC
- All 146 sounds used were either recorded and/or mixed in FL Studio
- Special thanks to Thomas Rüegg and Daniel Niederöst for spending many hours on the sound design with me
- I composed all music, except for the club scene track. It was then played through FL Studio
Making of
Storyboard
Most of the visual planning is documented on these three pages:
- My main goal was to save as much time as possible wherever I could while drawing, so I marked purple all the elements of the picture I wanted to reuse and not animate frame by frame. Those elements were then drawn once and later pasted into all the other frames using Photoshop CC.
- The red dots above K, L and M show where I would insert the frames from J because it`s a reoccurring sequence.
- While working on scene C2 I came up with an additional sequence which I no longer included in the storyboard but marked with “Insert”.
Sound design
The sounds were recorded using a Zoom H2 handy recorder, mixed with FL Studio, and finally inserted into Premiere Pro CC
Workstation
Using an overturned table with a tilting mechanism, plexiglass and double-sided tape, I built a makeshift light table.
On the upper edge I drilled two holes and glued in one pole on each side. This enabled me to fixate my worksheets on the table.
