course of Art Direction for Motion Graphics These alternative opening credits for the film La La Land have been created as an example for an exercise in the onlineimparted by Helio Vega on the website Domestika.org.

Stars animation has been my contribution to this project and in this version I have slightly changed the aesthetic. The most difficult issue of creating the animation has been to give feelings to two tiny dots, they had to act and dance with the music. At first I did several tests directly on the computer and I didn't have good results, so I tried to record myself directing some laser pointers at the wall while listening to the music and then copying movements on the computer. And it was very good, so this has been the key to give them life and emotions.

The second challenge was to dance following the movements described in the storyboard, which was a translation of the story between Sebastian and Mia into movements very synthesized. So I learned the choreography in parts, I recorded it and then I rotoscopied it in AE.

I know it is difficult to understand movements could follow a story, but they really do it. I show here the storyboard and the video recordings in which I appear with the pointers.













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