Eyes Go Here

A project set up by School of Motion through the Principles of Animation (Animation Bootcamp) class, I was given static storyboards to animate from. The goal of the exercise was to practice eye trace as the shapes move across the screen.

Process

I started by creating an animatic of the storyboards to figure out timing for animation. I overlaid this animatic on top of my animation and used hold keyframes to lay out spacing of when I wanted everything to move and how. Using this template, I then created the full animation.

Final

The text “Eyes Go Here” relates to the idea of the eye trace – the objects move in a way that controls where the viewer will look as they experience the animation. I moved the objects from one side of the screen to the next in a way that would be visually interesting and drew the viewers eyes to where I wanted them to look.