Test Movement

Professor Halbstein said to go back and place this image in after effects and make it move and test to see how it will look in the final piece.

I went back and cleaned up the image a little and gave it a few basic colors so it would be easy to look at, thus the image below was born.

In order for the project to work in after effects though each image had to be on a separate layer and made sure to save it as a pdf.  Here are the layers below that were used:

I played around a lot in after effects because I have never used it before.  It certainly was a learning experience and I realized that the front pieces would have to be twice as long or more so if they are to move faster against the scenery in the background.  I'm happy that was found out now rather than later when the piece was in it's final stages.

I rendered out a brief quicktime movie of what was done after a few different tries were made.  I like the effect it had and feel that it flows fairly well.   After this experiment I'm even more excited to dive in and work on this project.  I think I'll add more to the first two layers(the orange, the plants, and the monster) and a little bit to the third(the green background) so I can see if my theory will work.