Phase #1
This project was part of a larger effort to animate Psalm 29. I was assigned verse 1. Getting one verse didn’t give me a lot of room to play around, but I had the responsibility to set the tone with a strong opening.
I knew early on that my plan would incorporate both 3D modeling and illustration, but before I got there, I started with a storyboard. It’s fairly messy, but this was more about getting the vision I had in my head out on paper as soon as I could.
After making the storyboard, I sequenced the frames in After Effects to make an animatic.
Phase #2
Animation took several stages. The orb with the rings was 3D modeled, while the rest was a combination of frame-by-frame done in Krita and animation effects done in After Effects.Phase #3
After a couple of weeks of hard work, the animation was complete!
This was one of my first times using After Effects, and throughout the process, I learned a lot. This project is a great demonstration of how quickly I can pick up new software and incorporate many skills in a single project.