Scimitops animation
- Category: Illustration
- Team Size: 1
- Year: 2020
For this project I wanted to test my capabilities in animation in After Effects. I decided to illustrate and animate an animal from the game RuneScape, based on how Kurzgezagt do their videos on youtube since I really enjoy how simple and clean they make everything look.
What makes their style is, in my opinion, the portraying of light and shadow through the outlines and not the shapes themselves, so I did my best to figure out how they did it and tried it myself.
All the illustration work was done in Adobe Illustrator and the animation was done in After Effects mostly using the puppet tool.
Illustration
For this project, I decided that I wanted to do a Scimitops from RuneScape once again, seen below, and that I'd do it in Kurzgesagt's artstyle - a youtube channel that I love watching due to the animation mostly - also seen below, which makes use of simple round shapes and a way of shading by using segments of the outlines of the respective shape. I drew everything in Adobe Illustrator, as they do.
The Scimitops from RuneScape, a poster from Kurzgesagt and my rendition of the same dinosaur in said artstyle.
Animation
For the animation, I used Adobe After Effects, mostly by making use of the puppet tool, which was the simplest way to make everything move. I imported all the layers from Illustrator into After Effects and tried to animate them in a way that would allow me to have a perfect loop.
The complete animation for the scimitops.