Final Digiscape

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It is done! It is finally done!

Here is my final digiscape. Changes include adding shape tweening elements, tightening the animations of the rows of data, a massive increase in the amount of objects moving from plane to plane (from zero to many) fbf tightening of previous movements, and a bit of finetuning everything else. Nested animations are becoming my best friend, and they are becoming very easy to use.

I will say, however, that much of my success with them are because of the notes i took while animating. It is a big help to plan out what I want to do first, while leaving enough room for experimentation. Thinking about timing and spacing of objects helped as well.

In regards to the data that transfers in between planes, I found my original idea of the squares transferring into shapes to appear more forced than the rest of my work. (too much of the trick showed, not enough magic... if that makes any sense.) So instead of doing that, i went an entirely different route and shape tweened masks for the changed shapes, putting webbed patterns that changed color at different times into my animation. These i think would be a nice contrast to the square data clusters. They represent the inner framework that is used for each piece of data. The programming and coding that goes into digital information. It is, however, not one solid line. The little splits on the sides represent fragmented, imperfect data. The internet is man made, and from time to time, traces of humane programming can be found upon examination.