ABOUT

For one of my motion design projects at university I was asked to animate a short story from the BBC Radio 4 series “Short Cuts,” so I was working for a radio company called “Falling Tree Productions.” After listening to the whole of series 4 I decided to use the halloween episode called “The Fear,” and from that I used the story “Wilder.” I really enjoyed this one because of the sinister story, creepy characters, and tone of voice. The illustrations were created in Adobe Illustrator, and animated in Adobe Premiere. My illustration style was influenced by the illustrations used in the Arctic Monkeys music video “Do I wanna know,” their simple and bold style really inspired my theme. The 2D side scroller style was influenced by the game “Neverending Nightmares,” I liked the simplistic retro style and thought it would suit the animation well. I thought the final animation worked well because the illustration style matched the story, the illustrations were in sync with the sounds, it is highly detailed, it was unique, it played smoothly, and people wanted to see more.