Musical Symbols in animation

Another event that I wanted to emphasise through my footage was the constant use of music within the library and in numerous times during my shoot, people are caught walking through the shot with their headphones in, looking oblivious to everyone and everything around them.

To incorporate this into my animation, I wanted to use musical symbols, as they are obviously the best and most recognisable way to visually portray the cocktail sounds of various music coming out of peoples personal mp3 players. Below are a few images of how they have been used in current cartoons/ animations.

Viewing these images, helped me to see how subtle manipulations in angles of the symbols can suggest greater movement and also how by making some symbols smaller creates a sense of distance etc.

I then thought, I would combine this idea with my idea of illustration and thought I would physically draw the symbols on Photoshop using my new Graphic tablet and then manipulate them once they are in Flash. The image below inspired this idea;