Cutout Christmas - Motion Graphics / Animation
The objective of this project was to create an original, classically styled, Christmas greeting. I liked the idea of using paper cutouts and a subtle tone on tone approach. Letting the shadows create the lines and allowing the user's photos to really pop. Once the concept and preliminary storyboards were approved, Susan Andrade generated some still sillhouette illustrations for each panel. To animate this I ended up using Maya because I found it gave me more control of the lighting and shadows, and allowed for a slightly more subtle result. The Maya image sequences were brought into after effects to further soften and refine the color. FLV's were exported and finally brought into Flash for the interactive and customizable elements to be created.
