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.