Lifting Tower Project - Final Cut

As of the 20th of November, Stacy and I have finished the final animation for the project. During the visit by Jimmy on the 17th of November we presented our animation. Within the time-frame from my prior blog post until Friday the 17th, Stacy and I had been perfecting the smoothness of the movement of our animation, adding slight and succinct key-frames in order to make the shapes more lively and not flat. Also, in order for the animation to be more immersive we opted for utilizing the window of the building into the composition, prompting it to be the entrance of the initial Christmas tree ornaments that promulgate out of the window. Another slight alteration of our initial storyboard is the disappearance of the concluding snowflake; it now fades away into smoke instead of receding back into the window. I believe that for aesthetically abstract projects like these better solutions can be devised mid-production as ideas can always appear during the testing out of different tools within software - we were playing with the animated effects in After Effects. Overall, I'm really happy with the product and even more-so because Jimmy liked it as well, saying that it had a really easy smoothness to it.

Lifting Tower Project - Mock-Ups of Ideas and Initial Animating

In order to thoroughly visualize the ideas that we presented to Jimmy we were given a task to create mock-ups of how they would look on the actual lifting tower. Since our ideas are quite abstract and don't have any complicated layouts, we decided that the only thing worth testing out are the colors and their interaction with the wall along with our drawing styles. This would give Jimmy the perspective of seeing whether our color palette works and whether our designs are too detailed or not.
We were instructed to remove or replace every instance where a brown color would be used and instead either fill it with another color or just leave it blank since the color would not be projected well.

UPDATE: We have started animating with AE. As of now, we have finished the overlaying animation and are focusing on the finesse of the movement, utilizing the window into the animation, and improving the smooth flow of motion.