The assignment was to make a short animation in After Effects. This project helped me to better understand After Effects and stop motion animation. I fulfilled the project requirements by creating a stop-motion animation of paper houses and light with inspiration from Dutch artist, Vera Van Wolferen. The process I followed was stop motion animation and keyframed motion in After Effects. I made the decisions to include soft acoustic music and switch from the perspective of a couple different shots and perspectives. I also created a title and closing scene with hand lettering. My design embodies the ideas in my concepts because my concepts in this animation focus greatly on light. My design enhances the content by allowing the paper town to appear sleepy and through the motion of light, it wakes up.
St. Edwards University Graphic Design Student
