Time Pass Through

Animatic/Animation (After Effects & Premiere)

Time Pass Through is a piece that started as a final project for my Storyboarding class. The Covid pandemic hit during my Freshman year of college, completely interrupting life as I knew it. Without the routine of school and clubs, along with the isolation from friends and family, it was easy to feel like the passage of time had lost all meaning. Before I knew it, I was almost 20 years old and suddenly had to come to terms with no longer being a student and joining the ‘real world,’ whatever that meant in my head. The song Time Pass Through by Kaden MacKay perfectly captured my mindset at the time. This animatic is an expression of trying to navigate my feelings of depression and anxiety while looking for hope towards the future.

During a later course in college, I took the opportunity to turn my animatic into a full animation. I focused on using color to express my emotions throughout the story, with cooler tones representing my worries and warmer tones representing my search for an optimistic outlook. It was a therapeutic way for me to work through all of the emotions I was feeling during an unprecedented time in my life.