Creating the “Street” Set for RUS407 animations

The “Street Set” went through many iterations as I progressed in the RUS407 animations. With many animations for this project, I would complete the bare minimum for the animation to be “finished”, and then come back, sometimes as much as a month or two later, and add more details. The slideshow below outlines this process:

I started with the bare minimum I felt was needed to portray the action described: "a mom walking her child to school (one direction)"
I decided I wanted more depth, so I added two more "hills" of road behind the first.
With that depth I added a little more detail, having rows of street lights getting smaller in the distance.
After talking with Dr. Rice about some of the animations, we agreed that it would be nice to have some icons to make the street more "Russian" and I started with some statues that are in Moscow.
I then added a final layer of the Moscow skyline for these animations.
I applied this same tactic with this animation as well, flipping the skyline image and adding different statues.

For the “Crosswalk” animation that came in Unit 11, I wanted to match the street a little more to what a city street might look like in Moscow. I used some images that Dr. Rice provided to as inspiration:

I added buildings, shading and detail to the animation, I think to successful effects. This slideshow breaks down this process: