The Piano Fox is an idea I came up with that combines many aspects about myself. I enjoy animation, cartoons, comedy, live music, playing music, and educational entertainment. So, I wanted to create a YouTube channel that could possibly incorporate all of those aspects and also, of course, something that was actually doable for 1 person. After a couple sketches and a bit of strategic creative planning, The Piano Fox became a reality. Currently, it’s just a fun hobby and a project that I’m using to continue to build design skills.
Each video involves many steps and a lot of planning. My first step is the script and in this case the sheet music and soundtrack. With my music and design skills I build the soundtrack using a keyboard and MIDI interface. The sheet music is built two ways, 1 for the videos and 1 for the print versions.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Once I have the sheet music and the soundtrack made, I create the character. To create the character I first build them in Illustrator and import those into Adobe Character Animator for character movement. Along with the characters I also build the background imagery that the characters line in and interact in.
Then, I bring all of these files in to After Effects and animate the character files creating many compositions embedded in other compositions to ultimately export the final video file.
