Process and Production: The Boiling Effect with Sara Nesturuk
Combining hand drawn with digital
For today's workshop with Sara we will be having a look at an animation technique called boiling. Boiling is a rather quick technique that uses hand drawn illustrations that are converted to digital and animated to give off this fidgety and agitated appearance.
To begin with, we sketched an asset to work with and traced it an additional 2 times, I decided to do my Nythim skull as the illustration (surprise surprise.) One thing to take note is that when creating the boil animation effect, apparently it's preferable to create an odd number of illustrations to work with instead of even because if you use an even number the animation effect has a sort of glitchy look instead of a agitated look.
Whilst we were creating the illustrations Sara showed me an interesting artist called David Foldvari. David has been working as an illustrator since the late 90s, his client list consist of companies like Nike, New York Times, Penguin and countless others. His work has a very bold sketchy style that heavily features black, grey and white with an accent colour such as reds greens and blues. I think his style is rather interesting the use of a minimal colour palette with a sketchy style compliments one another, I personally like one piece he did which was a pile of skulls with a red music note hovering above with the caption "a pile of rotting corpses farting a recognisable tune" My own art style is rather similar to his in how it features a minimal colour palette and uses blacks and greys as primary colours.
Once we had all three sketches completed we next scanned all three illustrations in at 300dpi and imported them into Adobe Aftereffects as an image sequence. setting it as an image sequence is what gives it the boil effect. Below is one of the three illustrations that i used for this workshop.
Now it was time to bring the scans into Adobe Aftereffects. First I set up the composition, this composition used the same settings as the rest of my Aftereffects projects, set to 25 frames with a preset of HDV 1080 25. Once imported into Aftereffects, the three scans become a simple 3 framed footage that will need to be looped to make up the 10 second mark for this project. To do this I selected the footage, and opened the 'Interpret Footage' and then 'Main' tab in the file drop down menu, with 'Interpret Footage' we can set the frame rate footage to 25 and loop the footage to 50. Next I stretched the footage to 250% to slow down the speed of the boiling effect. Afterwards I brought in a texture that i'll be using for a background, I decided to use a paper texture and set the footage's mode to 'Darken' so the backgrounds of the illustration scans would be removed leaving the illustrations themselves behind to be edited, I then positioned the footage to the right hand side so i had enough space to add some text. Below is the texture I used for the background, i wanted to use a more scrunched up paper texture to give the background more depth.
Finally I added some text using the font BebasNeue, I made some bold text stating 'I DID A THING' coloured in a black and hot pink and placed it along side the footage. During the workshop there were more things to add to this project but when it came to creating type on illustrator and importing to aftereffects, I had some difficulty causing me to fall behind in the workshop this lead to me pretty much losing track on the final parts and effects that were shown to us. However I was able to create a GIF of what I created up to that part and you can see it below.
Whilst we were creating the illustrations Sara showed me an interesting artist called David Foldvari. David has been working as an illustrator since the late 90s, his client list consist of companies like Nike, New York Times, Penguin and countless others. His work has a very bold sketchy style that heavily features black, grey and white with an accent colour such as reds greens and blues. I think his style is rather interesting the use of a minimal colour palette with a sketchy style compliments one another, I personally like one piece he did which was a pile of skulls with a red music note hovering above with the caption "a pile of rotting corpses farting a recognisable tune" My own art style is rather similar to his in how it features a minimal colour palette and uses blacks and greys as primary colours.
Once we had all three sketches completed we next scanned all three illustrations in at 300dpi and imported them into Adobe Aftereffects as an image sequence. setting it as an image sequence is what gives it the boil effect. Below is one of the three illustrations that i used for this workshop.
Now it was time to bring the scans into Adobe Aftereffects. First I set up the composition, this composition used the same settings as the rest of my Aftereffects projects, set to 25 frames with a preset of HDV 1080 25. Once imported into Aftereffects, the three scans become a simple 3 framed footage that will need to be looped to make up the 10 second mark for this project. To do this I selected the footage, and opened the 'Interpret Footage' and then 'Main' tab in the file drop down menu, with 'Interpret Footage' we can set the frame rate footage to 25 and loop the footage to 50. Next I stretched the footage to 250% to slow down the speed of the boiling effect. Afterwards I brought in a texture that i'll be using for a background, I decided to use a paper texture and set the footage's mode to 'Darken' so the backgrounds of the illustration scans would be removed leaving the illustrations themselves behind to be edited, I then positioned the footage to the right hand side so i had enough space to add some text. Below is the texture I used for the background, i wanted to use a more scrunched up paper texture to give the background more depth.
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