Create a series of animations to detail the different stages of the patient journey and what they can expect, what the different areas of the hospital do, what services are available, and the types of equipment that is being used.
Audience
Patient, Parents and Visitors to the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre
Solution
Created 2 in depth animated Motion Graphics based Videos which showcases what services are provided for patients, parents and visitors in the Youth Cancer and Wellbeing Centre's at PMCC
Project Constraints
Strict Deadlines
Had 12 Weeks to finish this project with strict deadlines in place for check-ins throughout the project.
Research
Design Inspiration
Created multiple moldboard's that focused in on different forms of both Animation and Illustration. Which served as primary inspiration for the Art style of the project.
Storyboards
I created some basic entry storyboards for one of the videos, this helped to get the initial ideas flowing. While also helping with finding ideas that we like the look of enough to start refining into the product.
Ideate
Background
As our group moved along the creative process, I spent some time in photoshop creating a range of potential options that we could use for backgrounds. This way we could properly get a feel for how our final product might look.
Initial Styleframes
Created some style frames to see how out visual style was shaping up and also how the new backgrounds worked overall
Wireframe + Animatic
Our team had some talented artists so they provided me with some nice and further refined Wireframes/storyboards. These meant I was able to put together an animatic which was used to show our client and key stakeholders what stage we were at with the project.
Refined Styleframes
After many group discussions and idea sessions we finally came up with our final visual identity and refined those style frames from earlier. We increased contrast of the characters on our backgrounds by adding thicker lines on key parts of them. We also added long swooping lines in the background which almost serve as a guide that walks you through the scene!
Background Animation
Once our visual style was finalised I created an after effects asset which was the moving lines in the background. this way everyone would be able to insert it into their after effects files and use the same consistent animation
Character Rigging
I also in this projects final stages thought Id learn how to Rig a character in after effects. Using the program Duik Bassel made everything a breeze and was fun to learn a new skill during a stressful project
Final Projects
Final Animations
Below are the two full animations created by our Group for the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre. With the two main Focus’s being the Youth Cancer Centre and the Wellbeing Centre.
Reflections
1.
Increased my skills in After Effects and learn new skills like Character Rigging with Duik Bassel
2.
Mastered the Basics of After Effects
3.
Doing this during the Pandemic meant a unique challenge for working as a team, and helped me learn how to overcome those rather unique problems we had during that time.
