While at HMH, I had 2 weeks to get this bundle of joy together.  One of those classic People-talking-about-stuff-and-the-imagery-reflects-the-VO things, this time using a slew of scans and images from old books, manuscripts and newspapers.  This short piece is about The Age of the Restoration, probably best exemplified by one Mary Wollstonecraft who was pretty much the first feminist philosopher, and as it happened, mother to Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.  It was part of a number of animations done for various history modules in HMH’s educational publishing wing.

The vast majority of them are monochromed line drawings from the 16-1700s , so I coloured up some layers in Photoshop, set them to Screen and marvelled at how goddamn awesome they looked.  Then I chopped the images up, added some animated awesomeness like fire, smoke, 3D cameras, bokeh, depth of field, frames, inverse kinematics and whatever else to add life to the stills in a workflow similar to what you’d see in documentaries and infographics.