Animation Project
At the beginning, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with the theme “Heaven and Hell,” but I knew I wanted to do something experimental in terms of medium. I wanted to do everything in Photoshop, so that my final product has a professional and polished finish. Since I’m really not an expert in PS, in order to achieve the polished final look, I decided to reduce all my images to grids and colors.
I guess because I’m an art history major, the first thing I thought about when I heard “Heaven and Hell” was Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings, and I decided to take a literal approach to the theme by using the Old Masters’ paintings of the fall of mankind, but remix them with grids and colors. I wanted to dissect the paintings into little squares, and I hoped to move these grids and change colors in ways that complement the narrative.
Below is my storyboard, and as you can see, the narrative is pretty straight-forward. First, God created Adam and Eve, who were tempted by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit and were expelled from Heaven, and The Last Judgment paintings followed. I superimposed colored grids onto some of the paintings to show how the paintings will change into the grids, but still it’s hard to tell from the stills, the video will give u much better ideas.
After I finished all the images in Photoshop (there were about 300 of them), I loaded them into iMovie and adjusted the duration of each to create my animation~ The song in my video is “The Burning (Desire)” by Raz Ohara and the Odd Orchestra. I remixed it in Audacity, so the rhythm goes better with the narrative.
Watch the video HERE: The Fall