Originally i had the idea to create and animation of a computer by having different pop ups on the screen moving round, eventually freezing and causing a loading icon to pop up on the screen. I created it using white boxes with coloured elements on a black background and think it works well to show pop ups or tabs on a computer, however I felt that it didn’t fit overly well with the theme, and it looks too interesting, whereas i want the last scene to contain only a boring computer screen and the loading icon, to show how boring waiting is in comparison to my other animations.
I decided instead to have a scene where a man is sat at his computer, looking tired with the over exaggerated bags under his eyes and the stress lines between his forehead. I added subtle movements like his hair moving slightly, as well as the eyes closing slowly with the bags under his eyes to show the tiredness, and the stress lines extend as the eyes close. I also added his mouth opening and closing.
To show the light on his computer I added a slightly transparent box to show the light from the computer, and i added an effect to it to make it flicker slightly at the beginning of the animation, but with about 3 seconds left it stops flickering to show things are no longer moving on the screen as it’s frozen. After this, the camera will pan round and his view on the computer will be shown.
I designed the computer using the same background and desk colour as the previous animation to keep it the same. I added a simple website or search engine design to the computer as that page is something which is recognisable to everyone.
I created my own simple loading icon using block colours and added this to after effects along with my illustrations.
As the camera pans round to the computer screen the icon is already spinning which shows the computer is loading or buffering. The view of the computer pans into the screen so only the webpage can be seen and the loading icon spins alone on the page for 10 seconds. Although this makes the final animation very boring, it shows the contrast well between the moving illustrations and an empty computer screen. The 10 seconds goes very slowly for this animation whereas the others goes very quickly, which proves the point of my movement that you shouldn’t just sit waiting around for your computer to load.
Finally it ends with the computer shutting down and the screen turning black, which transitions into the last clip of the title of the movement.
Ben Jackson 