Short Brief: 60 Sec Documentary Animation Planning

In order to animate the illustrations drawn I needed to create a narrative/sequence to help identify how to animate the different transitions for each illustration as well as identify the order and timings of each illustration (see figure 1). This was helped as the timeline created to identify illustrations will be the order of the frames within the animation, as the narrative has a logical progression. Once the illustrations had been made a more detailed, accurate plan was created (see figures 2-6). Initially a line throughout the animation (see figures 2-3) was going to be used to act as a timeline, however upon reflection this wouldn't work due to the amount of text needed to narrate the storyline which wouldn't fit alongside the illustrations within a timeline format on a phone appropriate layout (iPhone 6 plus has been used within experiments). Therefore I chose to incorporate a simple frame by frame approach (see figures 4-6) where each illustration would appear on the screen followed by 'subtitles' explaining the storyline at the bottom. Once these frames had been mocked up each illustration could be separated and placed into its own illustrator file allowing for the animation process to begin.

In order to further the planning process a simple format of the animation was created in after effects to see if any other illustrations where needed (see figures 7-9). Although no other illustrations where needed different transitions need to be explore as simple jump cuts don't flow very well and wouldn't work withe captions along the bottom.

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