Haiku in motion

Motion design - December 2020

Animation created as part of a motion design workshop at ÉSAD Pyrénées with Sebastien Girard (Darkpulse).

A haiku is a very short Japanese poem intended to celebrate the transience of things and to evoke sensations. For this workshop, a sound created by sound designer Gabriel Bouty was imposed on the participants, who had to create an animation based on what the sound inspired in them, while taking into account the coordination between image and sound.

As for me, the sound evoked a wild and fantastical landscape, with bioluminescent flora similar to that of the planet Pandora in James Cameron’s film Avatar. I therefore created an animation depicting this flora growing in rhythm with the sound.

Several vector illustrations of plants were created in Illustrator and the flowers themselves were directly made in After Effects. Then I included scripts to help animating them in rythm with the sound.

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