Cogitate
Description
Meditation is one of the practices that helps me a lot when feeling overwhelmed by my own thoughts. I wanted to capture the idea of thoughts coming and going while being in a state of awareness.
This project is meant to be a practice of Duik Ángela – a comprehensive rigging and animation toolkit for Adobe After Effects.
Process
Since I was set on the idea for the animation I went right into sketching on paper where most of my ideas were ultimately simplified.
In Illustrator I created all the layers and shapes in a way to later be easily able to be rigged.
After importing and preparing all the layers in After Effects I went on to rig the character with Duik. I noticed that the functionality of Duik is quite extensive so I will definitely try more complex animations soon.
The animation was supposed to be rather subtle. I went back and forth on the idea of adding more complexity but ultimately I wanted this project to be practice and not much more. So I just added some elements that represent thoughts popping up and going and called it a night.
