Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 12: Self-titled

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09/12/24 (Week 12)
Samuel Keane / 0376236
Digital Photography and Imaging /  Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 4: Self-titled

JUMPLINKS

LECTURES

There are no lectures.

INSTRUCTIONS

PROJECTS

Self-titled poster animation

We need to turn our previously made poster into a 15 seconds long animation. Before starting the animation process, I added a new layer on Photoshop to make a transition for the animation.

Fig. 2.1, New layer, (10/12/24)

The first step is to import the Photoshop file into Adobe After Effects. Then I made sure to add folders and rename them to make the workspace tidier.

Fig. 2.2, Grouping files, (10/12/24)

I started with animating the transition by adding gaussian blur and a solid white color to make it look like a flashbang.

Fig. 2.3, Blur transition, (10/12/24)

Next, I scatter the words "IDEAS" and finally making them come together at the end. I use Transform Position to achieve this effect

Fig. 2.4, Animating "IDEAS", (10/12/24)

Finally, I made the head tilt to the right as if I'm falling from the gunshot of ideas aimed at my head with Transform Rotation.

Fig. 2.5, Animating my head, (10/12/24)

I also added a gunshot sound effect and Flashing Lights by Kanye West as a background music and synced it with the transition.

Here is the final animation:

Come To Life

This poster represents the process of how ideas can come from anywhere and everywhere whenever I am working. Sometimes, inspiration can come so suddenly it feels like a gunshot on your head, hence the gun sound effect on the short animation. Then, underneath the torn paper are the ideas I have inside my head which is depicted with the paper torn, revealing random images I have on my gallery. On top of it is a text I made with Adobe Illustrator.


REFLECTIONS

To be honest, I was struggling on working with the animation, since I haven't really gotten used to After Effects and motion graphics in general. But then I remembered Mr. Fauzi told us not to only rely on tutorials and lectures from him, but to find tutorials ourself on Youtube. This is the second time I have used After Effects and I went through so many problems at first. But in the end, I am able to finish the assignment.

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