This has been an interesting project for me. It is my third completed brief of the year and has used very different working processes to the other two. I decided to work with Hannah as she is skilled in hand-lettering and I wanted to experiment with combining this technique with motion graphics to produce something different to either of our usual work. I enjoyed this brief, and appreciated that by adopting a subject that neither of us had much prior knowledge on, we were able to start from the perspective of a beginner and actually learn about a topic outside of design. The skill here was using design to communicate difficult concepts in an appropriate and simple way. We took a long time experimenting with mark-making techniques that would create the right tone and effect when projected. This was a new approach to working for me as I don’t often get to work hands on within a brief. For the animation, we decided to make the aesthetics as stripped back and minimal as possible. This created a much stronger outcome and fit the tone of curiosity and wonder in the original book. This is also the first brief that I have had to use the college sound booth to record a voiceover, and I felt like this detail also made a huge difference to the final animations.
