On August 27, 2024 the YouTube logo transformed into a photo animation celebrating the photo-a-day genre of videos. I challenged myself to do some photo sequencing animation with complex camera movement, to show the “bts” of making a photo-a-day video.

Director, animator: Nik Arthur
Talent: Toko Hosoya
Styling: Toko Hosoya
Artist Management: Ben Wittkugel
Producer: May Azcue
Art Director: Andrew Lebov
Art Director: Yeojin Shin
Art Director: Jesse Lefkowitz

This animation technique involves creating a choreography of camera and actor movement, and shooting it repeatedly. Using a guide layer, I fit frames from different takes into a single master shot, constantly rearranging and tweaking, until the movement feels the most seamless.