Emotion: ANM201 – Week 11

To tell a story properly, you have to make your audience engrossed in it – get them to willingly suspend their disbelief. One of the best ways to do that is to have your characters placed in situations and act in believable, empathetic ways, that will evoke and emotional response. Remember, the best art is that which evokes and emotional response and that especially goes for animation. This week, we've been given the spec to create a 10 to 30 second animation in After Effects that expresses an emotion. The easiest way out of this one would be to show despair or sadness – it's simple to evoke that by playing a little sad music and and showing someone standing over a grave. But I want to try something harder. Fear. Well, more specifically terror and I think I know how. A slow reveal, accurate sound effects, and a sudden and abrupt ending should do the trick. Now, let us see if I can bring off the terror of an astronaut's last moments in deep space...