I came off the holiday nice and relaxed, wanting to do something a little different this week. I’ve seen people do their illustrations as collage, mobiles, clay, etc. and thought it might be fun to make a little animated character. So, I went to work:

a.) quickly sketched up my giant skateboarder character
b.) redrew him in Illustrator
c.) colorized him in Photoshop
d.) brought things to life in After Effects

Interestingly, I ended up tweaking the colors in After Effects *after* having done it in Photoshop. The character was moving, and it the original color scheme just didn’t seem to match his grooviness. This is what it looked like before:

It’s nice (in fact, I kind of like the colors better), but it kind of ended there. I felt the new scheme didn’t just try to look nice, but seemed to communicate more of an attitude. By the way, this was the second version for this theme. The first can be viewed here. Note: this is the second version of this theme can be viewed here.