Meet the first collaboration project of Ben Marriott’s amazingly talented students. The task was to animate freaky animals raving as hard as they can using frame-by-frame and character animation techniques taught in the Motion Practice course.
There were a few weeks of hard work and fun, feedback sessions from Ben aaand… here it is!
What animal are you on the dancefloor?
Special Thanks to Yana Abramova for drawing such amazing illustrations and Stan Kutcher (LazySleepyDog) for writing a catchy Animal Track.
Just a few breakdowns from the project:
Each separate animal dance is totally worth your attention. So check out the full project on Behance where you’ll find them all together with more breakdowns:
Collaboration projects play a significant role in the Motion Design School’s life. Let us know in the comments if you want to know more about these projects and our approach to organizing them, cause we’re ready to tell you about this much more 😉
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