Dead Panda

My final animation for Ms. Corrigan continues the story of Panda. This time, we see him confront his own mortality. I chose to return to Flash for this one because I felt like I've already spent a good deal of time in After Effects, while there were things in Flash (like symbol-ception) that I hadn't explored yet. The funnest part of this animation was making Panda's facial expressions, but on the other hand it was tedious trying to keep his mouth movements in sync with the voice track.

Happy Panda

Here we see Panda in his natural habitat, going out for a walk. I chose to make this in After Effects because the parenting features really help with creating and maintaining the walk cycle, and nested compositions were useful for looping the walk on top of a scrolling background. However, like many before me, I was a victim of exploding rigs, and it was frustrating at first. Overall I did not enjoy making this as much as my previous animations.

Panda Sheet

This is Panda. Yes, that's his name. He's the star of my upcoming masterpiece ;)