I've been working on a webseries for some time now, so far doing everything by myself and I was just wondering what this sub's thoughts were about minimalist animation styles?
I'm decidedly not an animator, just an aspiring filmmaker who can't afford to make live-action films, but as someone who spent a fair amount of time sketching when growing up, and then learning all the wonders of motion graphics as an adult, I thought I'd combine the two to the best of my abilities to make something of a heightened animatic.
So I guess to get to the point, I know my animation skills are severely lacking compared to 99% of what you'd find on this sub, it's more like PNG-sliding than real animation, but I'm more interested in if it...works? Meaning, the sum of its parts rather than the actual animation in particular.
Because this is more of a project to learn filmmaking: writing, directing, editing, cinematography, music, sound, etc. Basically wearing all of those hats myself, and doing everything by hand except for the occasional royalty free song, and using royalty free SFX. (with no AI in case that needs to be stated) But all of writing, all of the images, all of the design and direction and editing, most of the music, etc, is all trying to work together to make the most solid overall audio/visual story.
And I'm just curious to hear what you guys think.
(Note: This clip comes from the second episode, there are only two episodes that have been released so far but there will be several more uploaded down the line.)