Documentary Week 6 - Animating the Flag

I tried to test out the paint splatter method I found on an attempted background but I scrapped the background on account of not liking how it looked. I did manage to make a few assets that were a mix and match of third party and Photoshop brushes and try out the effect on an ending title card for the animation using the Bangladeshi flag.

The current Bangladeshi flag - the green represents the field and the red represents the sun as well as the blood of the people who died for its independence, which seems appropriate for the documentary

An image I found some time back that I used as inspiration for the animation test

The first flag of Bangladesh had a yellow silhouette of the country and I thought I'd use these colours for the paint smear that would reveal the title

The end title card test looks like this:

The title might change and I think I'll search for a more suitable font, but I generally like how the effect looks.

In the meantime, El finished the storyboards and animatic and we split all the scenes between us. As El and Petra were interested in doing some of the 'fact cards', I made a fresh set of white animated assets in a separate After Effects file that they can use to keep the animation consistent and made a reference sheet on how to edit the assets when they're placing them in the animation.

My cheat sheet for the team to reference when making the fact card scenes

We are now ready to start production and I'll be doing the backgrounds at the same time.