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Final video

Behind the scenes

First, we created a story board and started compiling assets for the animation idea which would feature a group of squirrels traveling to a Mars-like planet and attempting to set up a space colony.

We also created a mood board for visual inspiration.

In this assignment, I was tasked with the beginning section of the story, where a scientist-type squirrel is explaining the dangers of climate change to an auditorium of people and symbolically puts on a space helmet to indicate that he is going to go build a space colony. When animating this section, I found subtle camera movement to produce a nice cinematic effect. After we met as a group again, I also designed and animated the night/day space colony building scene, which was an interesting challenge. I ended up bringing Photoshop adjustment layers into After Effects and animating them as I moved around other assets in the scene to achieve the look you see in the final video. During the overall process, I also helped David & Jingyi create smoother animations using AE Easy Ease. My group members did the sound design after we completed the visuals.