For this project, I was tasked with making a short animation about chocolate. There were no other requirements, so I started thinking about what I would animate. The natural answer was a chocolate bar (as they’re my favourite), but I did a bit more thinking and found some images to inspire me online for all the different types of chocolate available. Unsurprisingly, there were quite a lot to choose from!

Once I had these images, I set went into Illustrator to start drawing my own based on the ideas that I liked here. I settled on four: an ice cream cone, a milkshake, a cake and a cookie. As I was drawing these, I was thinking about ways I could make them transition them e.g. the cone drips down into the drink below, perhaps the drink spills and forms one of the other chocolate items, the cookie could expand into the cake or vice versa. This helped me to add little design elements that might help with transitions.

Once I had these bits, I imported them into Illustrator using Overlord and set out animating. To keep things tidy, I animated each section in a separate composition and then brought those into one composition in the end. I knew from the beginning that I wanted them to transition nicely but I felt that each of them doing their own thing worked nicer than trying to combine them. I didn’t end up making a section for the cookie as I felt that the animation was becoming too long at that point, but it was nice to have made that so I had the option.

I felt that this project came out really nicely and that the different sections transitioned really well. My favourite was the slide in by the milkshake, as that required a few different nulls to be carefully animated around the bottom corners of the glass to get the wobble right. I also liked the slow falling down of the straw in that section, giving the impression that it really was in a liquid.