"In Times New Roman..." Animated Loops - Personal Project
I’m a massive Queens of the Stone Age fan and have been hooked since 2005.
When their “In Times New Roman…” dropped in June ’23 I was so excited about their return and loved the album so much I set out to create my own personal homage by animating a looping visualiser for each track.
After roughly 4 months of work, this is the final result!
3 months into the project, I finally had all 10 concepts and rough animations done.
Ready for cleanup and colouring!
Here's the edit of all 10 rough animations - some things changed quite a bit in the final cleaned up version, while for some others, it was only a matter of building assets straight into After Effects or barely refining anything on there.
Here's a breakdown of my process
Here are some sketches and WIPs I made while brainstorming concepts for each song.​​​​​​​
Track I. Obscenery - This was one of the final tracks I ended up visualising, as I decided to scrap the 'postcard' idea as the project was coming along.
Track II. Paper Machete - This is the last track I visualised, took me a while but finally envisioned a dangerous metal trap turning into a harmless chattering teeth toy. These are some other concepts I played with.
Track III. Negative Space - Last year I tried aquatint for the first time and a hand illustration I made totally inspired me for this track ( and for my own logo ).. I also played with the song title and the 'negative space' graphic effect.
Track IV. Time & Place - Going into this passion project, I knew I wanted to play with the band's iconic imagery - most notably snakes and “Time & Place" was the perfect track to introduce one…
Track V. Made to Parade - For this track I was determined to introduce chains, another signature symbol in Queens’ universe..
After a few iterations, I once again went for a ‘less is more’ approach and finally framed the 3 scenes for my small montage.
Track VI. Carnavoyer - For this track I brainstormed quite a lot of concepts before finally landing on the ‘figure inside the blood hourglass’ design.
Track VII. What the Peephole Say - This is the second track I tackled and the most difficult animation. Took a while but got there in the end!
Track VIII. Sicily - This is the first track I visualised back in January, inspired by the lyrics "You're all peaches and cream, pink nightmares..."
Track IX. Emotion Sickness - Heart break hits like an electric shock - like “a flick of a switch”. Loved this single when it came out - the idea came to me while working on another track.
Track X. Straight Jacket Fitting - “The old world melts like a candle a-flickerin' out” - “To face down your demons, you've got to free them” - “Bring on the healing..”​​​​​​​
Disclaimer: This is fan-made content, no copyright infringement intended.
All music rights go to Queens of the Stone Age/Matador Records/Beggars Group
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