Tree of Life

I have chosen to make an informative animation on Evolution. I am looking specifically into the theory of 'divergent evolution' as I find it interesting and I think it would be interesting to experiment with visually. Darwin's idea of 'the tree of life'
 

"As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications."

Charles Darwin

 

 

 



Experimenting with some very simple hand drawn animation. I put the individual frames together on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. It took far longer than it should have I must have done it the longest, most complicated way possible!

Brief

In our fast-moving society, the need to provide accessible screen based communication is an important requirement within the profile of an illustrator. Increasingly, growth in this area of the illustration sphere can be evidenced in the range of new products brought out by manufacturers each year, which consequently, provides new platforms for illustration. This in turn, creates an exciting dialogue that emerges from the more traditional ideas of illustration through to the newer emergence of challenging and exciting hybrid forms.

Screen based outcomes for example, can educate, inform, comment upon or provide light entertainment by combining sound, text, visual imagery, still and moving pictures.

This is my brief for the Convergence/Divergence project. I have ten weeks to work with screen based illustration, in other words I have to make an animation of at least one minute in length.