I had this project idea sitting in my notes app for a while. Initially the image was a skeleton in a grave with a tombstone that said “Stoned to Death” in a gothic typeface. I wasn’t 100% happy with it, so I made some changes with typefaces and the size of the skeleton.
The animation is made up of 23 frames, showing a small smoke wisp disappearing into the text. I played with the text stroke to give it a fuzzy look during the animation. I used Adobe Illustrator to create a PNG sequence with my 23 artboards. Instead of using Photoshop to make a GIF, I opted for PNG sequences to see how it would be different. Because of this choice, I couldn’t add audio directly to the poster. Instead I submitted a supplementary video of the poster with audio included.