Collage Animation: You're So Beautiful (part1)
For a year or two I have been looking at animations on Vimeo, telling myself I'd love to try animating a story one day, instead of a website's flying menus or buttons. But without a story I had a dawn good excuse to procrastinate on my project. Then last summer I heard You're So Beautiful written by Dean Vivirito. Many images came to my mind as I listened to the song for the first time and I thought hey, there's my story! About four months into it, here's the first of the song's four scenes, which takes place in Paris.
The artwork is done using a mix of manual and digital approaches. From the sketches I trace shapes which are then cut from various textured papers. The shapes are scanned into the computer and then cleaned up and treated digitally with Photoshop. I originally thought of using Flash to animate since that's what I'm familiar with, but Flash is best at animating digital artwork. With scanned images After Effects was a much better choice. This means I have to learn it as I go, but it's something I wanted to do anyway, so I just jumped in. Thank goodness for tutorials!







