Information Design - Project 2

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Information Design - Project 2

02/02/2023-14/02/2023 (Week 4- Week 6)
Brigita Maria/0352958
Information Design/ Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
3D render by Milad Fakurian


For the first week, in a group we were assigned to discuss about our Exercise 3: Kinetic Typography. The music and the art direction that we wanted to do.

But before that we did do a simple exercise to get us learn a bit on animating typography.

Fig 0.1 Animating simple text-"Design"

Fig 0.2 So What - Pink

This is the Miro link of our discussion for this project: https://miro.com/app/board

Fig 1.1 The list of songs that we came up

From the list above we did a poll in our WhatsApp group to decide the chosen song and the result is Mood by 24kGoldn with 4 people voting for it, one vote from me! hehe 

After deciding the song we then can proceed to mood boarding. We all contribute in our Miro board to determine the overall look that we think is suitable for the song. Some of us drawing inspiration from the LED light themed and I personally took reference from vaporwave style. 

After gathering ideas, we did a meeting call to pin point the specific style that we are looking for. We then stick to an LED light style, so glowing letterforms. Using neon colors.

Fig 1.2 Mood board for the look of the video

Fig 1.3 List of fonts

Lets not forget the fonts that we will use! we did choose a couple but the main font is JsuanXian, and I used Don Graffiti as my alternate font. 

Fig 1.4 Steps / progress of the lyric video

Fig 1.5 Adding Movement and glow effect to the words


Fig 1.6 Video of my part draft 1

Fig 1.7 My part draft 2

To be honest, I did struggle on giving the glowing effect, I do not know what was the issue, so the result for my part is not "glowing enough". So I did fix it but it did not came out in the final product as I fixed it after.
Link of the final video:
https://www.youtube.com/

ANIMATION CHART/GRAPH

PIE CHART
Fig 2.1 Animating Pie Chart

Fig 2.2 4 Equal parts pie chart

Fig 2.3 My Pie chart animation

BAR GRAPH
Fig 2.4 Animating Bar graph using grid lines

Fig 2.5 4 different bars 

Fig 2.6 My bar graph animation



TASK 3
Fig 2.7 Task 3 - Pie Chart


Fig 2.8 My pie chart animation (Task 3)



VECTOR ANIMATION

For vector animation it is a little bit different. First from the AI file we need to manually separate the graphics into different layers for an easy animation process in the AE.
Fig 3.1 Separate the graphics into different layers

Then we can animate it freely, rotating them or moving them! Don't forget to apply easy ease on the animation as well as motion blur to give a blur effect for every motions we apply. 

Fig 3.2 Animate it!

Fig 3.3 My vector animation exercise


TASK 4

I got task 4 group A! 
We must apply these conditions:
1.Animation: Position, scale, or rotation (Bounce Effect),
2.Layer: Motion Blur,
3.Keyframe: Easy Ease,
4.Choose one only:
Wiggle OR Puppet position pin tool

Fig 3.4 Separating layers in AI

Fig 3.5 Puppet pin to animate her hair

Fig 3.6 Animate the car and the arm of the guy

Fig 3.7 Don't forget at motion blur!

Fig 3.8 My vector animation result (Task 4)


FEEDBACK

Mr. Martin's feedback on our typography video, is only the video quality that is not the same through out the video, some of the scene are blurrier or not as HD as the others.

REFLECTION

I think this is the most usefull tasks and exercises that this class offered. Because I did learn new things that I can do in After Effects. I became more familiar with this software after this tasks and lectures from Mr. Martin. 

I found out that it is not that hard to create animation after learning new tools inside this software.