Sound 027 Animation

The piece that I developed into an animation, was this one!

I really liked the versatility in all the ideas that I could come up with to make this animate. I could change the colour, the width, make it sporadic... anything! I thought since the sound matching it has a rise and fall, perhaps making it spin in and out again would be one good way to represent it! 

Now since this was the first time I have ever had to do an animation to sound as opposed to adding sound post production, I really didn't know how to go about trying to have the animation in good timing with the audio. What I did here worked for me so I used it for my other animations as well, though I am sure there are other ways of doing it. Either way I ended up making a time line sort of thing to grasp how many frames I needed and what pace I wanted to go. I used a lot more frames than shown here, but it was a really good visual aid as I was making the animation:

What I found was that I really needed to focus on easing in and out in order to encapsulate the feel of the audio. I did a few tests before hand before I coloured the background and what not and I ended up coming up with this:

I really like how it turned out and I tried to really focus on the ease in and ease out of the piece so that it reflect the ease in and ease out the sound naturally has also. I think I got that part down, however I wasn't too sure if the animation was looking a little bare so what I did was go back into Photoshop and keep adding on the previous layer, so that it looks more 3D and has more depth. 

I'm not sure which one I like better, because they both look different int their own way. They both ease in and out quite fluidly I personally feel like they do the sound justice, especially the colour palette. But since I felt like the other one was a bit bare, I just adjusted the size of my format so that the animation would be widescreen, and left it as my final animation!