Phone Fantasy
22 Nov 2019 - Jake Sherwood
Phone Fantasy by Leo Ouyang & Jake Sherwood
After Effects - Phone Fantasy
The concept for our After Effects project was to highlight everyone’s growing dependence on their phones.
So often you walk down the street and the majority of people are on their phone.
Techniques Used
Green screen
Rotoscoping
Custom glitch effect
Vector illustration
Vector animation
Audio amplitude effect
We wanted to have a character walk down the street and highlight all the phone use.
While walking, the world is glitching out using the custom glitching effect, and revealing a “fantasy” world. Eventually the world will fully glitch out toe the fantasy world.
We used a few green screen shots overlaid on clips of the sidewalk, to create the feeling of a character walking.
We used rotoscoping to highlight the phones being used throughout the scenes.
We also have the phones transition to ice cream before we do the final glitch to the fantasy world.
In the fantasy world we use all vector illustration to create the fantasy feeling. Various weird creatures and animations happen throughout as well as some live action footage glitched back in.
Towards the end we use audio amplitude mapped to a solid with bubble effect and glitch back to the live action realm to further emphasis the weird.
We really just wanted to make it strange but also highlight the excessive phone use in today’s society.
It would sometimes be nice if we could all just transport to a fantasy world without our phone overlords.
Phone Fantasy Video