Project 4: “Breathing” Self Portrait

For my final project, I decided to go with Project 2’s theme of a girl in a TV. I wanted it to have a slight horror feel to it and do something a little different.

My main inspiration is Sadako from The Ring.

https://images.app.goo.gl/aaPSahhjqmh2Ki1p6

I was also inspired by the Korean Netflix series, Kingdom which is set in a fictional historical era where the dead is brought back to life.

My project would be a mish-mash of these 2 series.

I initially laid out what I had wanted to animate in a brief thumbnail and worked out all the assets afterward.

Here are the completed assets!

I converted all the layers into 3D layers, animated them individually and followed this tutorial that Bryan uploaded to create depth of feel.


Granted I am not good with editing and I faced a lot of challenges throughout this project.

  • As my scene was angled, it took me many hours to set up my shot as the angle was difficult to achieve.

 (wow, what a mess)

  • The assets I drew were cropped in Photoshop and had borders. I only realised afterward that I should have exported the file separately.
  • Definitely out of my comfort zone as I’m not used to animating in Aftereffects
  • My final vid was also about 1 GB in file size so I don’t know what happened there.

Here is my final piece!

via GIPHY

Here’s another cool version that I thought was interesting.

via GIPHY