Motion Graphics
Taught by Dusty Higgins
Four Elements
In this project we were instructed to animate the four elements, Earth, Fire, Air, and Water in an abstract way with sounds of our choice. We were only allowed 5 seconds for each element for a total of 20 seconds of video, so I had to create interesting compostions that could be absorbed in the short time frame.
This was towards the beginning of my learning about After Effects, so I do not think it was as successful as the rest of these works. If I were to do this project over, I would definitely spend more time syncing the wind chime noises as well as adding more dynamic animations to the water as it pours (for example a ripple effect as the stream hits what is already poured). My favorite portion of this was working on Fire, as I think it was the most successful in mimicking the sparks of a flame.
Horse Puppet Animation
In this project, we were given Illustrator assets of each part of a horse. Our task was to animate this against a real-life horse video (which was also given to us), and mimick its movement as naturally as possible. This project really taught me a lot about the puppet tools in Adobe After Effects, and I think I was pretty successfull in capturing the horse's movements.
Wave
For this project, we were instructed to create a wave animation with the colors and composition of our choice. I chose to animate a day and night cycle with a large calming wave. We were given a time limit of 15 seconds to complete this, and I am happy with the result!
This specific project taught me a lot about how to construct waves and how to get the timing right so that it doesn't appear disjuncted in its movement. I also learned a ton about how to loop repeating animations.