Carl Sagan Sting Final from Kayleigh Wilson on Vimeo.


After Effects was a very fun program to use. I tried different ways of working through my images for this animation.

Initially I thought I should pan down the image, because they are A3 Portraits and I wanted to include all the artwork, but decided that cutting up the image and framing it would be more effective overall.

The original idea was to pan down and zoom into each character to show off the bits of animation. But I noticed that it was still getting lost within all the constant movement. I noticed as well that this method would take up way too much time and I had a lot to show because its such a busy image.

Unfortunately I no longer have that version of the video that I animated, but I did have it on display on Fridays' crit.

I finally opted on the frame to frame method and I feel this is the best way to go about it. I show all three illustrations in the end, followed by my authors' name.

My husband and I did the voices, and the animal/jungle noises were sourced from the web, using Royalty Free websites.