I actually had an original design for this emoji thing which is completely different from the design I have now.
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This is the first animation I made on Adobe After Effects.
These are the first projects we worked on in vector graphics. Even though they're simple they were pretty fun to make. I'm going to put the original design of the emoji thingy on an extra page where I'll also put a lot of other info of all the other projects.
These designs here were made using Adobe Illustrator, and the animation was made with Adobe After Effects.
251117 Emoji 1 Body - Charlotte Metcalfe.mp4At the point I made this animation I had no idea what the puppet pin tool was. I really wish I did because it would have improved the animation a lot! If you don't know, the puppet pin tool is basically a tool to add extra "joints" into whatever you want!
This is the original sketch of the monster. As you can see in my original drawing there were a few things that didn't make the final cut. This drawing was edited slightly in Photoshop to make the lines darker and clearer.
This is the final design I ended up using. I'd say it's pretty accurate to the original thing with only a few things changed. I'm not sure what I prefer, the original sketch or the final design.
This right here is the final GIF version of my monster. As you can see it has a very low quality but that's how it's supposed to be. In this animation I used the puppet pin tool which added a more natural and flowing animation to my monster. Sadly the animation didn't loop properly so it looks kinda choppy at the end.
These are the different stages of my ELAR monster. So far this has been my favorite projects of the year. It took a lot of time to make this and I hope you like it. I know it's not that colorful and definitely less interesting than other monsters that other people made but that's how I designed it to be. My main insparation was the mythical creature called a Harpy. I also wanted it to resemble a shadow or something similar.
20260107 monster animation colored background.mp4This is the high resalution large animation that shows my monster in it's full emo glory!
These are all the tools in Adobe Ilistrator. As you can see, there are a lot of tools. Most of them aren't even used in any of the Vector Art projects. My most used tool is the pencil tool. It can outline and add deatail to projects!
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