For my Documentary Project, I chose to shine a spotlight on my dad, Ray Leihe, and how his early years in the US as an immigrant influenced his morals and values today. I was inspired to focus my documentary project on my dad as his views of success today help to defy societal pressures and encourages our generation to embrace and take on different paths to success. In my animated documentary in particular, i chose to focus on a small but important aspect of my dad’s story: how one man, Michael Freeman, helped to change his life and future and played a significant role in his life.
watch my full animated documentary here!
I intentionally chose to follow a very simplistic animation style with easy-to-animate figures and not much in-depth detail. Because I knew I was going to be animating a longer video, I wanted to be as efficient as possible in animating. In order to make my animated documentary, I used Adobe Photoshop to both storyboard my documentary as well as make all of the animated clips. Once I had animated each of my clips, I used Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro to compile them all together and finish up my project in post-production. See some of my process shots below!
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects
