Walk Me Home Lyric Video
Areas of Interest■
Motion Graphics, Image Editing, Hand-Lettering, Typography, Videography
Tools■
Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Lightroom
Info■
Walk Me Home by searows is one of my favorite songs, so I felt inspired to create a partial, 1-minute animated lyric video in its honor. Comprised of the simple, gentle strumming of acoustic guitar chords layered with the soft timbre of the singer's crooning voice, this song is defined by its intimacy and rawness. I wanted to invoke that feeling through paper textures, screenprinting effects, and hand-lettered type.
I used a handful of intimate and personal videos I recorded to
mirror the song's lyrics and used many different image-editing
apps and textures on each image to create a unique, organic
look.
I lowered the frame rate, extracted each frame to edit and color
individually, and then strung together each image
frame-by-frame. 8 fps felt apropos to create a stop-motion
effect, as if each picture was actually screen printed and
animated together.
The finished product ended up looking nothing like my original animatic. All of the tests and experiments I conducted steered me in the direction I ended up going with.
