Animation

AURA

Task

For the 75th anniversary of my school each student had to make a project with the theme 'soul' (die Seele). I decided to create an animation because I always wanted to try to make one. The animation would be a way of summing up life for certain people who believe that we have a soul. Life starts with the soul and then we're born and grow and become old and die. I wanted it to be a loop so that the soul would be reborn and do all life over and over again.

Storyboard

As usual, I first sketched all the key images in my sketchbook, like a kind of storyboard.

Animating

As I already mentioned in the Game section, I like to discover things on my own, so I didn't watch any tutorials or anything, I just started drawing. I wanted to give the image of the soul as if it were a burning fire and then, as I went along I progressed in the story. As I did not really know how to animate in Photoshop I just made several drawings on different layers and put them one behind the other.

Sound effects

In the end I thought it would be cool if I had sound so it would not be so hollow, so I searched the internet for sound effects and then I think I used after effect to put the sound effects under the video.