Open Data

Short animation video about Open Data: what it is, ways of leveraging data, and how it affects our everyday lives.

About the project

Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. This includes both government data, and data made available by companies. The animation video talks about open data concepts, and how it can be used by everyone.

Moodboard

Research for the Open Data topic, collection of inspirational images, colors and typography layed out in a couple moodboards.

Sketches

Sketches for the animation storyboard, that includes preliminary ideas and potential scenes.

Storyboard

Initial storyboard for the animation, that includes the script, and text for the voiceover.

Animation Video

The animation video was created and processed in After Effects, and the assets in Adobe Illustrator. Voiceover was done via Google's open source voice engine, and the soundtrack is Nixblicker, The Freeharmonic Orchestra, from a public free to use source.