Week 4 - Out Of Class

Above is the sketched out storyboard I created in my sketchbook. I drew out 30 frames in total and estimated that it would take about 42 seconds. I would like to use the panning/ camera effect in my project and was not sure how to portray it, so I used solid arrows and included detailed notes. Below is the digitalized version I created in illustrator. This version has the backgrounds, colors, and typefaces I would like to use. 

Week 4B

During the in class mini critique it was suggested that the red was too harsh and a yellow was suggested. To the left are the screenshots I did with the quick color change. I do agree that this works better; it is more readable and almost has a glow to it. We did debate which composition worked best but it all depends on how the motion works out. The lower is a more dynamic 2D piece but would it be confusing in motion? That is something I'll need to address during my process .






The rest of class was spent developing my story board in my sketchbook. So far it has been more thought than sketch.  So much of it will be done out of class.

Week 4 - Out Of Class

This is the poster we had to design for our quote. This is the first draft I did in illustrator. I chose two fonts that represent Disney and his achievements which he references in "new things" part of the quote.  I thought the colors did not draw attention away from the words and I felt that they work together well. I chose the background based on the fact that it seemed aged and added texture that worked but did not over power the design. It also adds depth, which I thought worked.

I have done multiple versions of this design.

 This is version 2 with slight differences including turning the word 'backwards' backwards and turning the word 'doors' downward to act as if they are waving back and forth. These are two movements that I would like to include in the actual motion project.  I was not sure if I was suppose to include them in this part so I made a second version.

This is the same as the first with the exception of the color scheme. I changed the the background to blue because the light section of the background and the white reminds me of Cinderella's Castle in Orlando and the red is a good contrast.

This version above is the same as the second one just with the new color scheme.

In this version (the fifth one) I started to play with the scale of the words and stacking.

In this sixth and final version I took the scaling and position even farther to make a whole new composition. In my motion portion I want to be able to pan out and allow the viewer to read/see the entire quote and the end which is why I did not go with this layout from the beginning. I do feel it is more dynamic which is why I was unable to choose one

Week 4A

The quote I plan on doing for this project is:

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” 

- Walt Disney

This quote is very inspirational to me personally. It is something I look to and read when I feel defeated. When I read the quote we realized how many motion words are within it, so it will be a great quote to use for this project.

During class we walking around to look at everyone's rhythm projects. I showed my Flash Firework motion piece to the class. We got the information for the next project and the exercise prior to it. I found my quote which is above then started working on designing the poster in class.

Week 3- Out of Class (2)

While working outside of class on Thursday I had to switch computers, between the ejecting my flashdrive from the first computer and putting it in the second, my flashdrive became corrupted  I did what I could to fix it but there was nothing I could do. I had not had the chance to save my files from that day's class so I had to start my Flash portion of the project over. By the end of the night I got to about where I had gotten that day. So the beginning is very similar to the last post's video besides the slight path changes since I can not recreate it perfectly nor did I want to since I have since revised it.

Today I finished and revised my Flash portion. I moved paths around so it was less chaotic which allowed it to be more readable as suggested. I made firework larger than the rest; this was also suggested to me. To choose which one I watched a few videos of firework shows, this helped me with timing and the pop of each one. Also, I took the suggestion of adding more than three. I added one additional one on the end to break up the rhythm and to break it up visually this last word does not have a streamer on the end of it unlike the others, which was also a suggestion. I did not add more because I felt this worked best with the loop and it seems continuous and it had a rhythm which was the assignment. It is also a very different rhythm from the After Effects piece.

I mainly used motion tween in Flash and not classic tween. The motion tween was so similar to After Effects I found it much easier to use since it had the diamonds within the timeline that I could move. 

Week 3B

In class today there was a small tutorial in the beginning to give us a better understanding of flash before we started on the second half of the assignment. After that we had in class work time to work in which ever program we wanted to work in.

I worked on the flash portion of the assignment and the video above is what I got done in class. Originally during ideation to be different than my after effects piece I was listening to classical music and instrumental since the other part had a pulsating beat of music like pop. I ended up listening to instrumental music of a fireworks show I had on my ipod. The actual rhythm of the music was too complex to illustrate in such a small span of time, so I thought why not instead create rhythm out of fireworks. The boom and crack of fireworks create their own rhythm as does the shapes they make.

I was able to receive feedback during class which included adding a few more fireworks on the end and maybe adding a few in the background without streamers on the ends. I plan to work on these suggestions out of class.

Week 3 - Out of Class

Today I worked on my rhythm motion project in after effects. I showed Paul what I had done in class and he had suggested that I make the type turn together in two sections instead of individually. So I applied that change to the first half of the word and the second half then saved it separately. Once I decided how they would entered I left the beat how I had it during class then mirrored the entrances at the ends to create the characters exits. This allows the video to loop correctly.

After I viewed the video in its entirety I felt that the beat in the middle section was not reading well so I went into the timeline and at different points of emphasis I made the scale get even larger. This change helped a little but it still was not working as well as I hoped it would so, I opened the timeline again and revised the beat to be simpler. This revised version is at the top.

In the video I used all of the transform tools in the timeline with the exception of anchor point. The only time multiple tools are used is at the entrance and exit. During the middle only scale is used so the composition does not become too chaotic.

Below is the Video on youtube