Graphic Design & Animation

This is the final After Effects production workshop in which I created a showreel, a composite reel, of the work I have produced in the After Effects workshops with me this year. I have learned how to cut, edit, marking to audio, titles, slates, endboards and how to brand our own work. For the workshop, I had to bring 5 of my previous After Effects projects, rendered at high resolution, along with these I also brought some of my animations created in After Effects used for other projects. In class, we looked at a couple of references, after the workshop I looked at more references for inspiration for future showreels. Project References: Montage 2011, by Adam Gault Montage 2011 from Adam Gault on Vimeo . Steffen K - REEL13 Steffen K - REEL13 from Steffen K on Vimeo . Showreel 2012 by Rocketpanda Showreel 2012 from Rocketpanda on Vimeo . Upper First - Showreel 09 Upper First - Showreel 09 from UPPER FIRST on Vimeo . I created a

Workshop Six — Physical Typography Using bread as our given material, we needed to first explore its affordances and limitations before creating an entire alphabet. For our final output: a series of 26 photographs (one of each letter) which are then considered collectively as a short stop-frame animation. This allows us to edit another dimension of time in your animation, not only considering the framing of the letters but their movement and transition over time. After experimenting with letters from bread, we began to create the rest of the alphabet in the same style. With each letter completed, I edited each image and scaled them so that the letters are in a similar position, which then I made into a gif.

This workshop is about refining a presentation document, we learned how to make a presentation look cleaner and organised. Using photoshop, we cleaned up our images by removing unwanted lines and colours left from scanning or taking photographs. Using a picture of a drawing, we used tone contrast to make the black and white stand out more. We also used levels to increase whiteness to remove any fine lines and rough drawings. As well as increasing the black levels to make the outlines darker. Exporting an image for web. After cleaning up the scans and photographs, we learned how to set up a document in InDesign, using rulers to keep our images and text tidy, as well as consistent throughout the presentation. Placing an image in the guidelines and making it fit proportionally. We also learned how to place a video file in this document, including several options which we could apply to video.