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Mystery of flying
explainer video – 2D animation
Bird flight looks so simple, but this is caused by complex physics around the wing profile in the airflow. These processes are explained here in detail - easy to understand and in the context of an amusing little story.
Education should be fun ...
Created with ADOBE AfterEffects, Illustrator and Photoshop -
sounds by EPIDEMICSOUND.com.
Concept, design, animation, sound mix: Christian Thamm.
sounds by EPIDEMICSOUND.com.
Concept, design, animation, sound mix: Christian Thamm.
Acknowledgements:
This project (and further animations) I was able to realize in the framework of a grant by "Bild Kunst Kulturwerk" - "Neustart Kultur" - "The commission of the Federal Government for Culture and Media".
... thank you!
This project (and further animations) I was able to realize in the framework of a grant by "Bild Kunst Kulturwerk" - "Neustart Kultur" - "The commission of the Federal Government for Culture and Media".
... thank you!
Creation process
For the frame story I chose a cartoony visualization and used its style elements (strokes, colors, design) for the reduced representation of the physical processes. To animate all this vividly and bring it into a narrative flow with text elements was the challenge here.
I created all the preliminary work - character, bird and wings, flow processes - in ILLUSTRATOR and imported the paths into AFTER EFFECTS. This allowed me to animate all the elements down to the last detail. So a pure vector design, without a single pixel element. To render the air flow, I applied AE motion and alienation effects.
Thanks for your interest!
© 2021 Christian Thamm
