Shape Animation

Post one of three for today, is Soul of Silicon. The idea was to make a simple animation with the shape tool in Adobe After Effects. Being who I am, I of course opted to work with a robot.

My biggest problem here was probably the layers. I'm still not entirely certain how layers work, or rather how to make new ones, but I think I did alright. I think this was truthfully done with just two layers, and a bunch of shapes on the same layers. Not my ideal, but it worked out alright.

The idea behind the wordless story is a robot briefly enjoying a moment of humanity as its little heart beats, then shorting out. Its soul flies off as it passes on. Not bad for a thirty second animation with the shape tool, I think.