This was a fun little project. I got several hot air balloons, a few of which I did not use. Used a mask to cut them out, and smoothed to refine the shape. Then I got a picture of Austrian Alp background, and put a lens blur on it.
I originally wanted to do a hot air balloon race, but didn't think that it would make use of some of the more advanced animation features.
I think the temporal idea behind this is that balloons are constantly changing in speed depending on the wind.
I did all of the movement with scale and position. I pushed the anchor point out of the composition to make it huge in the ground and chug its way across the screen. Once I had all of the key frames set, I got in the graph editor and started playing with the curves to make it decelerate as it got further away from the camera.
Then came the puppet tool. When I saw it for the first time, I knew it would work perfectly on a balloon. So i set 10 pins in the balloon and went to the end of my timeline and scrunched it up to blow up this guys balloon. All that is missing is a crash, scream, explosion.
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This would be so great with sound. Regardless, very nice work.
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