The Science Fiction Puppet Theatre

The "Science Fiction Puppet Theatre" is an animation I created in After Effects using its 3D layer feature. This technique is known as 2.5D. I achieved this effect by drawing and separating the layers in Photoshop, coloring them in Illustrator, and then cloning them in Photoshop and arranging them in 3D space in After Effects.

My inspiration for a  "science fiction puppet theatre" came from my love of science fiction and especially the stories of Ray Bradbury.

The "dark carnival" motif was inspired by Bradbury's novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes".


















The image of an alien landscape was taken from the stories within  Bradbury's anthology, "The Martian Chronicles".