Robot transformation
As a fun personal project, I wanted to animate an object morphing using frame-by-frame animation and play with camera movements in After Effects. I decided to animate a boombox jumping up and transforming into a robot before falling back down and landing. I animated the robot using a mix of straight ahead and pose-to-pose.
The following images and videos were all part of my process towards creating the final animation.
Thumbnails to plan out the general movement for the boombox robot and camera
Early sketches of what I wanted the character to look like before and after the transformation
Final front view and side view designs. I eventually simplified these to have clearer shapes and less unnecessary detail
Color studies
Linework for my animation before color and camera