Child Safety Project - Animation

Opening Scene

For the this scene the door on the house opens and the camera zooms in to see the bear waving in the hallway.

This is a video that I made of the door opening, I next need to overlay the house on top and then have the animation of the bear waving behind the animation of the door opening.

To create the door opening I used a cut out of the door and moved it frame by frame using the transform tool in Photoshop.

I have made the house to overlay the video of the door opening.

Added colour for the windows.

Overlaid the house image on the video in After Effects.

Turning the bear into a puppet and uploading into After Effects, the arm and head movements could be keyframed ready to place behind the door.

Adding the bear behind the door.

Putting the hallway behind the bear.

Zooming in on the bear waving.

I next animated the book that one of my group members made opening.

Then using the image of the house to rotate and move forwards out of the book, changing then into the video of the door opening.

Finished first scene.

I think that towards the end it is quite jumpy with the zoom, and there is part of the background missing.

Updated first scene.

It is still slightly jumpy towards the end but I am happy with how this scene has turned out, with some extra time I will probably be able to make the transitions smoother.

Bathroom Scene

The next scene I made was the bathroom scene, this scene was easier to make than the first one because it was made by just using the bear as a puppet in After Effects.

This is the opening of the scene, showing the bear walking in, slipping on the soap and then falling into the toilet.

 I will next have to create a thought bubble in photoshop and use a screen shot of the bear stuck in the toilet to put inside the bubble. I can then use the bear puppet in After Effects to shake the thought away by lowering the opacity of the thought bubble.

The finished bathroom scene.

Bedroom Scene

Using the puppet technique again I have created the bedroom scene.

Upstairs Hallway Scene

For the upstairs hallway seen I used the walk sequence to lead the bear to the top of the stairs and then the cut out of the bear to make it start to fall.

Final Scene

This scene contains all the further information for the viewer.

I worked with the client to gather the information and logo's.

This is what I came up with.

I then added sound and the 'thudding' imagery to make the final scene.

I've edited the videos that I animated together with the music to create my own version of the finished video as I was waiting for other members of the group to finish their scenes.