{"id":215,"date":"2015-03-31T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=215"},"modified":"2015-03-31T17:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:10:46","slug":"blackstone-academy-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone Academy Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broke out my number two pencil & some paper\u00a0recently and with the help of my scanner and adobe after effects made a short animated trailer for ‘The Adventures of August Winter and the Blackstone Academy’! By short, I mean short, as it clocks in at under 45 seconds. Drawings are rough and gestural a bit at times, but that was the look I was going for since it was a quick piece and intended to be atmospheric.<\/p>\n

\"Blackstone<\/a><\/p>\n

Creating the raining visual effect took a bit of doing as most of the articles I read for adding rain animation required using plugins that I didn’t have. Necessity being the mother of all invention I went with a classic way of creating a rain effect using a screen layer over the drawings. With a bit of tweaking and some motion it created a pretty strong rain effect that I’m quite happy with and will likely use again in the future.<\/p>\n

Would be cool if some people find the animation on youtube and checkout more of WaveGarden Arts work and the book itself! Had fun making the trailer and I might do other quick pieces like that in the future. Depending on the critical response and how much time I have.<\/p>\n

Want to see the animation for yourself? Here<\/a> it is, check it out!<\/p>\n