Hooray! Animated fitness instructor test film goes live
Share it with anyone in lockdown, it's a gentle exercise film – some simple seated exercise combined with a gentle side to side exercise routine LINK: https://vimeo.com/418571417
This is a nice story. Working with Age UK Oxfordshire, I discovered a campaign they ran for radio called "Workout Wednesday". It was a series of 16 audio posts that BBC Oxfordshire broadcast together with Age UK.
As lockdown started I was editing a quick video series of instructor films with Age UK. As a favour I converted the 'Workout Wednesday' MP3 audio files to Mp4 for posting to youtube.
When listening to the audio, I thought it would be fun to create an animated character and edit it to the audio exercise files – and so here we are, a few weeks later with the first animated short film.
I edited this in after effects using #DUIK for the main character rig. This is the first stage, version one if you like.
Throughout the process I posted making of films to my Youtube channel. Here's a link to the first post where I designed the character
and a link to a post on my Patreon page
There is so much more that I can do/add to the character to make it move. It's good enough for release though, and while it's being viewed I will tinker some more in the background.
This is my donation to Age UK Oxfordshire. It could be there's an opportunity to expand and develop this more. Perhaps I'll put it on Kickstarter or add it to Patreon to get some funding to develop the next film ... anyone with any thoughts on this? I would be really keen to discuss.