This is a personal project I worked on to develop my illustration and vectorial animation skills. The point is to understand how different details of an eye move together in order to convey a diverse set of emotions.
I illustrated the eye using the path tools on After Effects, exploring shapes, strokes, gradients, effects and blending modes. I started out with a simple circle masked inside an ellipse and added each detail as I observed footage of my own eye.
Instead of layer parenting, I used the technique of rigging paths to other paths, and then keyframing only the parent paths. The challenge was to change and model the shapes rather than animating whole layers.
I illustrated the eye using the path tools on After Effects, exploring shapes, strokes, gradients, effects and blending modes. I started out with a simple circle masked inside an ellipse and added each detail as I observed footage of my own eye.
Instead of layer parenting, I used the technique of rigging paths to other paths, and then keyframing only the parent paths. The challenge was to change and model the shapes rather than animating whole layers.
January 2023
(This project was inspired by Pablo Cuello's Domestika course on vectorial animation)
(This project was inspired by Pablo Cuello's Domestika course on vectorial animation)
