Shea Stadium Animation
Keeping Shea’s iconic neons alive through illustration and animation.
Role
Illustrator, Animator
Timeline
3/2023 - 5/2023
Design Process
I began by finding an image of Shea Stadium that not only featured the front of the building, but its iconic neons as well. Once I imported the photo into Adobe Illustrator, I began to illustrate the building layer by layer.
Reference image of Shea Stadium
(Credit: Wikipedia)
The illustration process!
After I finished tracing, I imported two jpegs into Photoshop – one with the neons off, and one with the neons on. Using the timeline feature, I had each photo appear for 1 second on a loop, which created the flickering effect you see in the final piece.
The final animation: