What are you lookin’ at!?

This is a test. Nicholas Mira Photo is conducting an animation test for a future project. This is only a test.

My goal here was to test some simple animation techniques and to concentrate on multiple functions within the animation. Plus, make something fun to look at. If you visit my IG (@nmira), I accompanied his movement with Louis Armstrong’s “Potato Head Blues.” Again, paying homage to the golden age of cartoons. I will conduct a few of these animation tests using different foods before I dive into my next project, which will require more animation. I like the clean background, so I’ll stick with that style for future tests.

I wanted the potato character on a pink, spotlit backdrop, and to animate multiple eyes, with him bouncing up and down a bit. Overall, it worked well, and he’s a great little character that I hope to bring back.

Breakdown:

Prop-

1 hand selected potato .67 cents

Pink Savage seamless “Coral” is the name, $35.00 (purchased for a shoot a few years ago; I don’t think the client even used it.)

Lighting:

1 Broncolor 400 L standard L40 reflector shot through a 4’x4’ diffusion frame.

1 Broncolor 800 L p65 reflector with a 20-degree reflector

I drew the elements in Procreate and animated them in Photoshop.