Talking Puppet Animation

For our last project, we did an animation of a talking puppet we created. I draw my puppet in Photoshop and did the animation in After Effects. This was like the other puppet animation except the puppet had to sync to audio. The animation was ok, only wish I had more time to polish it.

Talking Hand Animation from Shah Akandh on Vimeo.

Typography Animation

In this project, we took a sound file from a song or whatever and use the lines to make an animation that is synced with the audio. The animation was done in After Effects. This was fun and a good learning experience.

He Man Animation from Shah Akandh on Vimeo.

Frame-by-frame Animation

This project we did a frame by frame animation in Flash. This was not one of my favorite project to work on, I found it a bit troubling to redraw each frame and keep everything consistent. However, it was a good learning experience.

0 days without accidents from Shah Akandh on Vimeo.

Frame-by-frame Model Sheet

The character model sheet for my frame by frame animation.

Hand Walking Animation

For this animation, we had to do a walk cycle. So while I was trying to come up with a idea for the animation, I was imagining how the walk cycle would be and was using my fingers to practice and that's when I decided why not an actual hand as the walking animation. I used Photoshop to draw the puppet and did the animation in After Effects. This was probably one of the more fun and enjoyable project to do. I liked the fact that I didn't draw every single frame, just move pieces of the puppet.

Shah-Hand Walk Cycle Animation from Shah Akandh on Vimeo.

Character Walk Cycle Animation Model Sheet

Clay Stop Motion Animation

This film was made using clay for the characters and using Dragonframe, then editing it Affect Effects and Movie Maker. Even through the outcome of the film was great, the entire process was really frustrating. Getting the characters in the correct positions and kept having technical difficulties. However, it was a fun learning experience and pleased how it turned out.

No from Ahnaf Shahriar Ibn Siddiqui on Vimeo.

For this stop motion assignment, we used a program, for stop motion, called Dragonframe with a D-SLR camera. We had to show the physics of a ball bouncing, so instead of doing the generic bouncing ball, we did Pong, a classic video game, but the hardcore version. It was a fun little assignment; Dragonframe made it enjoyable and easy, without it I probably would have not have liked stop motion that much.


Pong Stop Motion Group Project from Shah Akandh on Vimeo.