Smithsonian "Evolution
Theater" / Northern Light Productions
Animation
elements for "Tree of Life" segment of video. Instead of a graphical
tree as I depicted in the Storyboard
it was decided to use this photo silhouette.
Conceptually, I agree with the choice since the photo evokes the complexity and seeming randomness of Evolutionary Development. However after being responsible for teasing out the miriad strands of connecting branches to create coherent layers that would clearly tell the story of a few select branches of life (animals and mammals) I have become a firm believer in simplicity.
All the layers together
Original photo
A little snip here and there aaand Voila! Heh.
Close up on us mammal's tiny little corner of the evolutionary world.
One more challenge was getting a match dissolve to a reasonably photogenic giraffe (harder than it looks. I will post the sequence soon.)