Hey Hey,
Here’s more on the process of our open source animation project for Utopian.io
The design process is a lot of work but it’s definitely rewarding when your final project turns out well. We didn’t start out planning on pen and paper like some designers do. Eli and I just started messing around in After Effects trying to see what worked and what didn’t.
The first step was deciding on a background. We liked the idea of using nodes and triangles connecting them (seen above). Then the digital glitch, which I mentioned in my last post, came into play. The circle first glitches red, and then green and then blue. This reflected the RGB makeup of imagery, being able to see how images come together, which seemed a perfect fit for conveying the idea of open source.
Most of the decisions we made seemed to work really well. However, I think you guys will be interested to know that not everything we think is going to work does. We often start on a specific shot or sequence, finish it, and then realized it isn’t as interesting or dynamic as it needs to be. But that’s part of animation and open source projects in general; sometimes you have to know what doesn’t work before you know what you’re looking for.
Thanks for reading. It was so exciting to have the community feedback on the animation work from our first post. Looking forward to hearing more!
You can check out the full After Effects file here:
https://app.box.com/s/791o6y91ltu6093s4ugvck1ha8hrkak4
Yours in The Chain,
Doug
I am a Brooklyn based writer, film & commercial director, and crypto-enthusiast, my projects include @HardFork-series an upcoming narrative crypto-noir and my novel Dwelling will soon be premiering exclusively on Steemit, and you can check out more of my work at dougkarr.com, piefacepictures.com, and www.imdb.com/name/nm1512347
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I commented on the post by y’all over at @hardfork-series asking for something just like this. Thank you! This is really informative—I’m hoping to do something soon with book publishing on the steem blockchain. This sheds light on handling markdown copy for me. 👍
Amazing project thank you so much for sharing
@dougkarr Thank you for promoting Open Source! Much appreciated! It is extremely important that a problem won't have to be solved more than once. That way humanity can evolve and advance technologically much faster! Open Source is all about going forward.
Highest Regards
@lordneroo
This project sounds like so much fun @dougkarr! Great job!
hot damn, i've been hearing a lot about Utopian lately (-: gl
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Is this because of the software save version issue? Thanks!
unfortunately we have to reject the posts if there's no answer after 48 hours, I waited a bit longer but since it was on the 5th day and considering the bot takes up to a day to vote I had to reject
It's really awesome and amazing animation open source project. Much appreciated and go ahead with hard fork series.
@dougkarr, Just awesome creativity. I'm absolutely believe you're very talented to create utopian-io animation projects. Thank you for recommended this post and keep going.
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This project is looking very nice. Thanks
Wow. Thank you for sharing.
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Sure, I'd be happy to @kiaazad, what version do you need it saved to?
Hi I'm new to Steemit and very enthusiastic about producing content and also the marriage of the crypto/financial/social media experiment. seeing as it's still in its infancy, the content is still not very strong, and neither is the community. I'm excited to find your feed. Also super curious about this narrative series you're working on to distribute on Steemit! that's a first I imagine, and I'm definitely going to follow.
What do you think would help Steemit platform to become a more accessible source for the mainstream public to consume this kind of content, like a narrative mini series, or even a feature film, for example. I think the audience can be found, but the not sure if the platform is really intuitive or catchy enough for people to effortlessly consume the content.