Act Together
A
collaborative project with Alex Tsvetkov in response to RSA Student Design
Awards.
The aim of this animation is to visualise Vivek Murphy’s speech about the process of relation-building and the benefits of working together as a community. We wanted to make it understandable, easily accessible and visually interesting for a broad audience of the RSA community.
I was predominantly responsible for the illustrations and textures, the visual style of the animation, as well as the presentation materials (storyboards and animatics) during the project. What is more, I did some animating, too.
The aim of this animation is to visualise Vivek Murphy’s speech about the process of relation-building and the benefits of working together as a community. We wanted to make it understandable, easily accessible and visually interesting for a broad audience of the RSA community.
I was predominantly responsible for the illustrations and textures, the visual style of the animation, as well as the presentation materials (storyboards and animatics) during the project. What is more, I did some animating, too.
The Process
As
the word 'divisions' was fundamental for the talk, Alex found a few articles on
animals who hate being around other animals. This is how we came across the
flowerhorn fish which is quite aggressive towards other sea creatures.
Therefore, we decided to base the design of our character on it.
However, the feedback wasn't in favour of it. Some people found the bubble over the head strange and illogical because they hadn't seen fish like that before. So, we simply stuck with a fish character with similar shape and coloured it with textures inspired by the scales of the flowerhorn. We used similar approach for t he props and the backgrounds in the scenes.
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However, the feedback wasn't in favour of it. Some people found the bubble over the head strange and illogical because they hadn't seen fish like that before. So, we simply stuck with a fish character with similar shape and coloured it with textures inspired by the scales of the flowerhorn. We used similar approach for t he props and the backgrounds in the scenes.
Initial Storyboard:
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