Project 3 Brainstorm Blog

For Project 3 I plan on making an animation of me in the Olympics. I plan on starting the story with me in my living room watching the Olympics and falling asleep. When I wake up I wake up within a dream as one of the Olympic athletes competing in various sports. I plan on using the sports of running, diving, weightlifting, and boxing for my story. I think that I will use the puppet tool within Adobe After Effects to make my animations and I will use many effects to convey the message that I want to. In the beginning, I plan on making a fake news broadcast to introduce the Olympics, and I plan on using drone footage to transition to the different events. For the running event, I plan on making a run cycle which I learned how to do in the After Effects Lab and moving it down a track to make it look like I am running. For the other animations, I am sure making a cycle will not work so I will animate each move individually. For the ending, I plan on including an effect that makes it look like I was knocked out and I will use varying dizziness effects to convey that like adding blur in some places. The inclusion of multiple Olympic sports gives me the opportunity to add more sports or remove some to make the 3-minute time and for the animation to make sense. I got inspiration for this idea from a class I’m taking called Sports and the Cold War which talks about the Olympics during the Cold War era.