PP3: Printed Textiles Collaboration

As a side project, I had a friend who is a Printed Textiles student and she wanted some of her work animated for the purpose of going on her website and showing off her papercut work.

Katie setting up the piece before letting me loose animating it! She used a drawing for reference.

The final piece.

I found it really fun to animate someone else's work, as I've only really worked with my own papercut pieces, the paper had been mono-printed and the colour palette carefully selected by Katie. It was a really good experience working with all of the little pieces and figuring out how to make it look fun but not too distracting. This was quite a free task and I had pretty much complete freedom; apart from the animation being able to loop.

Below is the final animation I created for Katie. She only wanted the actual piece animating, however I also did a little animation of her name at the end as a bit of extra self promotion, which she loved! I've also exported the animation out into GIF form and given that to Katie so she can use that online.

Flower Power from Stacy Straub on Vimeo.