Everything on the list makes up a solid kinetic typography project. Timing, transitions, and font/color are the most important factors to make up an appealing project. Kerning and keeping everything aligned falls into the "easy on the eyes" feeling and also makes the difference between an amateur project and a proffesional one
The Article: http://www.skwigly.co.uk/annecy-2016-moana/
The Animation article is by Ben Mitchell and it talks about the process and the reputation behind the animator and animator. The article's main topic is the inner workings of the new Disney film Moana. The film was made through multiple different teams working together. The teams include a cg blending team, hand-drawn animation, and the complications that arouse while making the film. Some troubles include the logical and free-spirited side of the characters in the film.
The professional project review is over kinetic typography. The project is made by a youtube channel known as "Pixel Perfect." The project is as followed:
Throughout the project, every text and transition is smooth and weaves into the next. The only part I feel doesn't fit is 46-47 & 1:12-1:25. Other than that, the rest of the project is fairly seamless. I loved the color scheme used in this and all the background changes and I applied these to my project as well. I think the entire project was very well made and every text had an equal effect to them and overall the project is very balanced and very easy on the eyes.
My Project:
My personal project consisted of another kinetic typography project. This project started out as an emagine entry project, however, half way through the song, I began to lose interest. Therefore, the project became a trial project. I used it to try different ideas and techniques. I wanted to add much more color and transitions and effects to the words than earlier projects.
Throughout my project, I learned different skills and techniques to use for future projects. The end product took about 1 week to do and is fairly complete. The pre-editing process took a few days as well. Perhaps the most difficult part of kinetic typography projects is finding the perfect song, speech, etc. The audio has to be easy to comprehend (Same with the text), appropriate for whatever you're doing, and last but not least, it has to be appealing to you.
If I redid another typography project, I would keep the opening sequence of this project, and change some of the images and texts used. I learned how to use more colors and lots more transitions in this project.
I am overall content with my project and am looking forward to any other future projects as I know they will only continue to get better and better.
For my personal focus project I went through multiple different project ideas ranging from 3D Modeling, 2D Story Animation, to my current project; Kinetic Typography. However, I have also scrapped an entire project to pursue another song. I did this because the previous song retained too many simple errors and the song itself seemed to fail in certain areas. This was my previous song:
As seen, the video had a lot of simple errors such as spacing/kerning. The text itself didn't build off of each other the way I had anticipated it either. Therefore, I researched different kinetic typography videos to see how my project was different than theirs. I went through 10s of videos but here are a few that inspired me:
Using these references, I built a new project while keeping in mind how each word needs to build off one another. I also put more transitions and spent a couple days on 3D modeling a background for one of the scenes.This was the finished product:
MY FINAL PROJECT:
The Process: During my project, I found out that my attention span is not long enough to stick with one song long enough to finish it. Starting with heathens, I ended up trying to create a mashup but didn't seem to fit, I ended up meshing one into the other.
What I learned:
My final project wasn't my first project. I cycled through multiple songs and multiple styles before settling. I've made different songs with different styles and even tried speeches. In the beginning of the typography, my work was fairly amateur and didn't have much symmetry to it. I then made my second typography (Warriors). Between that and my final project, I tried lots of different things. On my final project, lining everything up, movement of text, and images were much more vibrant than before. Future Projects:
In future projects, I wanted to try to add a lot more effects and lots of different color changes. I tried out different ideas on this project as a guideline to future projects.
This animated short film's storyline was the evil maid about to kill the dust bunnies but then there was one brave dust bunny that prevents any further killing of the dust bunnies. He goes inside the vacuum and tries to rescue his friends while fighting against time as the evil maid is on the way of plugging the cord back in. But all this happens before the plug is back in. At the end, the resolution is the evil maid being sucked in by the vacuum.
The entire animation was made without using a single word and only sound effects and yet the story is still communicated across and the feelings are still felt. I would apply this to my animation skills by using more sound effects and less of "actually showing" everything. Sound effects and expressions can be much more powerful than just saying everything flat out. They even sometimes express the story better.
The creators made the film very enjoyable by using the general stereotypes to express characters because no words were said, expressing characters fully are very difficult to do. The creators of the film can work on the ending. The ending was an expected one and maybe add a twist.
Find a video or image to use as a background, either will work (preferably high resolution)
Place the composition into aftereffects (use the image's resolution as composition dimensions)
Create a matte around what areas of the image/video you want to be in front of the VFX (You do this by creating a new solid layer, using the pen tool to draw around the area, then alpha revert the matte)
After interlaying the VFX and mattes, the final product will appear as a real explosion has taken place
What School Is Best For Me?
This article covers what animation school would best fit you and your personal needs. The article provides where the school is, what alumni you will need, what they will be teaching, and how much experience is needed. It also goes into much deeper details about what the school will teach and provide to the students, if the school's teachers are capable of teaching what they need to teach that you can apply to the real world (Ex. Having a movie animation teacher that has actually done movie animations before). It also talks about which school would provide the best alumni to fit you.
Intro:
The personal project review I chose to do is the final. The final was make a video using the skills we have learned throughout the year. It includes: Greenscreen, VFX, 3D Modeling, and a lot of editing. The final product looked a little like this:
The Process:
The project took a lot of work to finish. Storyboarding the video was the first step followed by actually shooting the scenes needed. There were lots of bumps in the road that needed to be smoothed in aftereffects. Many of the shots were cut off and I had to find a way to fix it. After a lot of editing, matting, smoothing, and putting on the finishing touches, the video was finished. The video took a lot more work than expected but was still accomplishable.
Throughout the project I learned that many of the projects that I will be doing will not turn out perfect or how I imaged it in my mind, but it is up to me to fix what needs to be fixed and learn on the job/ work with what I have. If I were to do something differently texted time, I would create a better work spread. In this project, almost all of the work/editing was placed on two of us. I would learn to spread the work evenly throughout the group next time we do a project like this again.
Thoughts and Conclusions:
I think that this project had the potential to be very fun and intriguing. If this project were a solo project, it would've made the project much more enjoyable. I think doing whatever idea you wanted to do, no matter how much work, would've been much more enjoyable and efficient if it were something you'd wanted to do.
What is Graphic Design?
In the AIGA's "What is Graphic Design?" they talked about what graphic design is and how it involves daily life. Graphic design, or also known as communication design, is used to inspire and spread ideas/thoughts throughout the world using art. The article also branches into smaller parts of graphics design that make it up as a whole. The article also covers how graphic design can be a job.
The Box: Simplistic design and following the theme of vectors and geometric lines. It also contains the name of the deck, designer, and year it was made.
