A LIST
OF THINGS
"A List of Things" is an animated short I created in 2021 to go with a segment
from one of my favorite podcasts,
Welcome to Nightvale. This podcast is
set in the fictional town of Nightvale,
where strange things happen and nothing really makes sense.
I wanted to capture the mysterious and unsettling tone of the podcast by using a specific color palette and illustration style
to build a cohesive world within my animation. This piece incorporates illustration and frame by frame animations, and was finalized in After Effects.
The end result is fun and a little weird -
just like Nightvale.
PROCESS
IDEATION
My first step in creating the video was to develop a clear idea of the aesthetic
I was aiming for. I collected images of different scenes, color schemes and illustration work that inspired me.
SKETCHES
Next I worked on storyboarding the animation frames. Because I was
animating along to a spoken list, I wrote out key lines, and numbered
them so I could plan each frame accordingly.
Graphics &
style frames
Nearly every element of this project was hand drawn on using ProCreate.
Animation was done using a combination of cel animation and After Effects.
FINAL FRAMES
