Monday, April 11, 2016

PAPER THIN

Laura Kidd's latest album "Direction of Travel" has just launched digitally, with a music video - and I made the animations on it. Watch and listen!


I am so proud to be part of this - it's an amazing song from a brilliant album.  I had to listen to it a LOT to synch up the drawings, and I still love it.


It took me a week of mostly drawing and redrawing rain drops, with assistance from my niece Paula who did the lettering.

An early test. A bit too inky!


Making a big neat sheet of regular rainfall, painted with a calligraphy brush pen.
Scanned and animated.

Most of the rain is hand-drawn to suit the specific scene, though.

Editing the rainfalls drop by drop to make it look more natural  that they are missing her face...

Experimental digital weather

Drawing a thunderbolt

Extremely helpful cat


All the lettering and some of the rain, by Paula


Zonked assistants


READ MORE ABOUT THE VIDEO AND THE REST OF THIS EXCELLENT ALBUM HERE!



1 comment:

Barry4ad said...

Nice work!

I'd find a horizontal touch screen really useful.

You might find the open source "Blender" helpful for animations - it has some tools for weather effects, and can do auto-tweening.
I've never used these, as I'm using Blender for 3D printing artwork.

Barry.