Category: Adobe After Effects

Conclusion to Post Production

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This past month I have gone through many frustrations, lack of sleep, and many tutorials to create my projects for the class. And I can say, I have learned so much and improved immensely.

Adobe After Effects scared me at first because there are an infinite amount of effects and variations of the effects you can create and animate every little property for it. That can be said for any program as creating something from scratch becomes difficult because one may not know where and how to begin. However, as I got more and more familiar with the program I began to have more and more fun creating my projects.

I found it difficult to create ideas that I had visualized and wrote down in After Effects because certain aspects wouldn’t look as I visualized it. Despite it not looking like I wanted it to, I ended up creating things I never thought I would be capable of and ended up liking how it turned out.

This will be the first time I share a link to one of my projects on this blog, but I liked how the project came out. I might revise it a little in the future and repost it as I got some suggestions in class on how to improve it. If I had finished my kinetic typography project at the time of posting this blog I would have chosen to show that one off on here, but alas I have not finished it yet and should probably stop procrastinating on doing the finishing touches of that project.

Motion Graphics

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For this month’s class, I am learning how to use the program Adobe After Effects. My first project involves creating a motion graphic about what is graphic design or a self-introduction. I decided to go for a self-introduction piece about how growing up took me down the path of becoming a Graphic Designer.

I have learned many simple ways on how to animate certain shapes and lines from tutorials and somehow incorporated the knowledge I gained into my project. I sometimes forget that I am a beginner and are quick to judge my work, but the reality is that it is okay if it does not look great now because I don’t have all the tools, knowledge, and experience to get to where I want to be at the moment. As long as I am learning how to begin and how to improve is all that matters at the moment. Just making something move and being able to finish a project makes me feel accomplished to strive to learn more and improve my artwork.

As for motion graphics, they are quite fascinating to look at. It takes a lot of time to put things together if you are having many things move at once, but the finished product is amazing. I will insert a YouTube video of an example that I saw that looked well and inspired me for creating my project.