My Family Portrait from Rebecca Rochon on Vimeo.
Summer Days Spent at my cottage in Ontario, Canada are the most wonderful days. I have grown up excited to relax and be with the family at my cottage whenever we could fit a trip into our busy schedules. It is definitely my favourite place on earth.
For this project, I decided to recreate a "snapshot" of my family in the great North, where we are all our happiest!
Here's the rough Sketch the scene was inspired by:
To make the puppets, I used watercolour paper and gouache to create a traditional puppet animation feel. I used bright vibrant neon colours, which unfortunately didn't scan as brightly as I intended, but I managed to alter the images in after effects enough to bring it back to their original colours.
I then used photoshop to animate my dog's mustache, my mom's hair and my own hair.
After that I composited and animated the entire scene in After Effects.
I really enjoyed working with puppets and will be exploring with them further in the near future (hopefully with some tigers and circus awesomeness) I had a ton of trouble when I first attempted to traditionally animate the puppets under a camera because there was so much action to keep track of and it was super difficult to keep the layers in place. That's why I went digital, but I think I want to try and go completely traditional again with a simpler idea.
Here are some pics of my family and I having fun at our cottage!
My Brother wake surfing (in case you didn't know of this sport and were confused why he isnt holding onto a rope in my piece)
Me and my Brother (and goofy Dad)
Mom and I soaking up the sun
Dad behind the wheel
and of course, my adorable doggie Jack!
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