Week 9B

Today we were assigned teams for our next project which is a 30 sec explainer video about whatever topic we choose. Raechel and I are going to start using our wordpress blog to explain and show our process for this new project. Here is a link to it.

http://raechelemily.wordpress.com/

Week 9A

Today we critiqued our Logo videos. Overall the class seemed to enjoy the video of the Wicked Pissah. The things that my peers seemed to point out was the fact that an underwater sound or bubble noise would definitely bring together the entire video. The other thing is to make the tail flip more fluid by putting in another transition tail. I hope to adjust the video and re-post it as soon as I get the chance.

Week 8B (outside of class)

So here are my adjusted projects. I couldn't find my rhythm one (unfortunately) and due to the fact that I only had a limited amount of time to redo these adjustments, I just worked on my message in motion and the dream animation.

Here's Message in Motion;

Above is the first version I changed. I totally deleted the previous video that I had. I did my best to edit out all the frivolous movements and the changing backgrounds. I tried to keep each scene of words at the same timing. In the end it was still kinda missing it's message so I took the feedback that I got and changed it again by changing the color of some of the words.

So here is the second final version;
 Here as you can see, I added some color to make some words blend in and others stand out. I adjusted the words mouse and peep to a lighter version of the pink background to make them soft (like their meaning). I also changed the color of Mariella to white so that you could see the "I" in it. That shows how the person singing the song wishes to be more like the confident Mariella.

Second is Ryan's Dream;

The first one was way too all over the place, and I agree after watching it again. It's just really hard to keep up with. So I got rid of the word movements but I kept the bulk of the image movements. Here it is.

Week 8B

So today I changed a bunch of things in the beginning of my 5 second Wicked Pissah animation.

After talking to my professor we both agreed that there was something stiff about the moose as it entered the screen. I needed to add some physics to my loose mermaid. SO! What I did was make the moose dangle diagonally on the hook. Then from there, as the mermaid is landing on the "ground" it's tail bends and then it straightens up. At first I just made the tail go upwards and flip a little as the words "The Wicked Pissah" came down. Then after talking to my buddy Raechel, we figured if I added bubbles at that part, it distracted the viewer from the random flip of the tail. Making it more fluid.

I also wanted to explain the title of my logo "the Wicked Pissah" because I feel when people read it, they feel awkward. Pissah (pronounced piss(ah)) when something is a wicked pissah, it's totally awesome. It's nothing even close to being a cuss word or anything negative. It's just common language in New England. I created the wicked pissah because of my family (who is from New Hampshire) and saying something is a wicked pissah is just an everyday thing.

Week 8A

During class, I added bubbles and adjusted the moose's arm and tail animation to make them pop and bounce to show the family friendly happiness that the words do when they come into the screen.


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It's not 100% done. I would like to explore putting in sound, like underwater noises to really complete the animation.

Week 7B

Today I had to figure out how to use the puppet tool in order to animate my moose (to keep the logo animation fun and interesting). I went on youtube and found a few very helpful tutorials to give me tips.



May not be the most professional video but it made learning how to animate more fun for me.


After watching this, I broke my loose mermaid (Lobster+moose= Loose) into a body(head and chest), arm, and tail (using different layers for different parts) and did exactly what the video told me to do. I've finished the first cut of my video and just have to edit it some before I am finished.

Week 7A

Today was our first real workday for this logo animation. Here is my storyboard for "The Wicked Pissah".

In the end, my animation is going to be a bit longer than 3 seconds, but that's only by around 15 frames (half a second). The description of what I plan to do is in the images.

Week 6: Outside of Class

Above is my story board for my brand "The Wicked Pissah"
1. What type of logo did you choose?
----I chose a logo that I made myself in my Typography I class. It's a restaurant brand which is like a higher end lobster shack. It would be the equivalent of a Red Lobster.
2. What type of company is it and how can that be brought to your animation?
----This company is a New England company that is family friendly and kind of quirky. That can be brought to the animation by making the words bounce down (fun/friendly)and make the Loose mermaid actually move and bring it to life.
3. What context will the animation be in?
----I feel like this could be used anywhere, but mostly in commercials on TV before and after a program.

Week 6B

Aaris Sherin presented in our class today about sustainable thinking and design and how it could positively effect and impact our world. She gave us many examples but I think the main one that really stuck out to me was the illustrator that she brought up named Chris Haughton. The fact that he illustrated characters then made them into stuffed animals that helped his neighbors and community positively in an economic way by giving them jobs. I never really thought of doing something like that and how it could really effect those around me.
It really opened my eyes to the fact and design isn't just UX, coding, and technology based. Design can also be those crafts/illustrations that people like me make, just on a larger scale. I personally just can't get into the technology side of graphic design. My heart is into creativity so it was just nice to see this side of design.
Also I feel the point that she brought up about packaging and how it's such a huge waste in our world really got me thinking. What if their was a design where when we have products we just don't have that extra packaging for it. It's something that has sparked my curiosity and makes me want to DESIGN!!!

Overall it was a really enlightening and inspiring conference and I enjoyed it 100%!

We also got the introduction of what our next project will be. It's pretty much the 3 second animation of a brand/logo of a company. Our prof. gave us examples like ABC news intro and CBS etc. I chose my own personal logo that I made last year for my Typography I class.

Week 6A

We critiqued our message in motion today. I personally believe I did a terrible job in the critique today. I know what I want to say to the presenters about their videos, but I always am too busy stressing out about my own presentation to actually raise my hand and contribute to the conversation. It is a debilitating fear and I don't know how to get over it.

Other than that I now know how I can fix up my own video to perhaps get a better grade on it. I have far too much going on in such a short time that the foreshadowing and recall are just totally lost.  The positive is that the song is quirky and they thought that the font really reflected that so I was happy that at least that worked out.

Tomorrow is the day of design and I look forward to listening to the presenters talk. It's always nice to hear what being an actual graphic design artist will be like. It inspires me to keep pushing myself to reach that goal.

Week 5: Outside of Class

For this Rhythm project I wanted to do more of a dance rhythm kind of feel, like someone doing the wave. I tried keeping it simple and to the point of rhythm.
 
 Ryan's dream was the subject of my dream animation. It was about us walking from a circus to a bridge where I proceeded to fall into a raging river and drown. While he did try to save me he was unable to and someone else swam and rescued me then I ended up in a coma.
Emotion with line was probably the most simple animation of them all (and my favorite project) I tried to make the line seem lost and look everywhere in every direction to find where it was.
Message in motion was a quote from "Mariella" a song by Kate Nash. It's quirky and a silly way of saying that this girl wants to do what she wants to do like free spirited Mariella instead of being shy and quiet and doing what everyone tells her to do without question. I think that in the end my animation was all over the place instead of being a good narration of what I was trying to say. 

Week 5B

Disclaimer off the bat, because I'm still working on this AE message in motion video, I won't have any images to really post on here.
In class it was pretty much just a work day filled with just setting up each scene of the message and just trying to keep it simple and in a patter where the viewer won't get lost and confused. I'm trying to stay with similar transitions into the scenes and keeping the message clear and understandable. Other than that there's not much else I can really say about the project.

Week 5A

After having my storyboard critiqued, it has been decided that my design has so much going on in every frame that the emotional and deep message is lost and overwhelmed. I'm going to extend the length of my message to be longer because I feel like how it is now, it is short and doesn't really make sense. So altogether the quote from the Kate Nash song;
Sometimes I wish, Sometimes I wish I was like Mariella. She got some prittstick and she glued her lips together so she never had to speak. People used to say she's as quiet as a mouse, she just doesn't make a peep.

Week 4: Outside of Class

For my animation project I chose a few lines from the song Mariella by Kate Nash.
"Sometimes I wish, Sometimes I wish I was like Mariella. She got some prittstick and glued her lips together. People used to say she's as quiet as a mouse she just doesn't make a peep."
I thought of shortening it to after she says "glued her lips together" but now I'm rethinking my decision.

Week 4A

Here are my final Dream and Rhythm animations










For our next project I've decided to take a few lines from Kate Nash's song "Mariella" to use from my message in motion project.
"Sometimes I wish…sometimes I wish I was like Mariella. She got some prittstick and she glued her lips together. So she never had to speak. People used to say she's as quiet as a mouse, she just doesn't make a peep".

Week 3: Outside of class

Since we didn't have class at all this week, we were assigned to create an animation on Adobe After Effects illustrating the meaning of rhythm.
In order to even understand how to do that, we had to watch the tutorial videos on Lynda.com. The guy in the videos pretty much gave the entire layout of AE and showed how complex it is to animate letters, shapes, etc. He explained keyframes and parenting, and positioning and how it all works. I might have had to watch them 3-4 times each but in the end I got the concept and this is how my "rhythm" video turned out.

Week 2: Outside of Class

Finished my sequential dream scape project and here is the final result. I found that if I didn't keep previewing what work I had put in, the frames would end up going super fast, so I adjusted it somewhat so that it would make more sense and the viewer could somewhat keep up.

Week 2B

We started class by learning how to upload a video onto YouTube and then from there learned how to create movies in Adobe After Effects.

Now we've been assigned to create a sequential dreamscape. What that means is that we have to pick 5-7 words from the dream that we wrote about on our blog and put that together with texture images that are abstract but go along with what the words are trying to illustrate. From there we have to develop a system and narrative of our dreams through the duration and switching of the textures and words to give a random viewer the idea of the dream. So far my words and images are the following:

 

Bridge

 

Circus

Drowning

Falling

 

Rescued

 

Walking

 

Coma

These are not in the order that they are suppose to be (should be circus, walking, bridge, falling, drowning, rescued, coma).

Week 2A: Outside of Class Dream assignment

Ryan's dream;

In a circus or renaissance atmosphere, He was outside walking around, with me and there was a bridge with water underneath that I fell into. Then he tried to fish me out but then people from his high school came to help out and they made a human chain that reached down to the rushing water. The chain of people didn't save me but someone else was able to swim out and save me instead. He was able to resuscitate me but I was in a coma. That's all folks.

Week 2A

We went over the emotion videos that we were assigned to create for this class, went over the syllabi and had a lecture about motion principles. Duration and Pause were explained but they are pretty self explanatory when it comes to motion videos.

For an in class project we were asked to interview a fellow peer about their personality and who they were as a person. I personally interviewed Jessica and found out that she was very similar to myself. Then from the information that we gathered, we were given the letters of our names and had to create a stop motion video showing their personality. We worked together directing each other to create the shorts. It was pretty much a way to practice working in teams.

I unfortunately was unable to download my personal video from class. I will post it on my next blog entry.

Week 1 Outside of Class

For my emotion line animation I chose the emotion of being lost or confused. At first I had my line searching, and I was constantly moving the line in each slide, but I found that when I played it, it was moving so fast that you couldn't even comprehend what it was doing at some points. So I went back and made a few of the frames repeat so it would have the pause I was looking for. What I was going for was for the line to drop down then go from corner to corner looking and searching and then finally once it got to every corner for it to freak out and go in circles then finally hit the wall and stop. It's a quick little animation but it was incredibly fun to make.

Week 1B

 above is a flipping animation that we did in class and below is a separate one. Both revolved around CATS!

We went through the basics of Motion Principles today.
Frames per Second [fps], Adobe Flash, Key Frames, etc. Then we were assigned a emotion/line project where we have to pick one emotions for a single black line to animate.