Type as Image.

Type as Image.

My second type as image poster involved using the word reaction in a scientific term, i wanted the imagery to symbolise compounds in chemistry, i feel it worked quite effectively and puts across my concept clearly.

Type as image.

My first Type as image poster, keeping a minimal style and using letters from the quote to create a simple representation.

I used the two 'oo's in Moon to represent the earth and moon, i decided to use the third poster as it takes up more of the format.

Evaluation 202.

Ident 4.

All idents finished and selected now, this being the final one, i am pleased with how they have all turned out, i could have tried some different techniques but with the time left i don't think i would have done much better.

Armadillo.

Creating the 3rd part of my title sequence beginning from the scene containing 4 species of lizard. had a few problems getting things right for this composition but in the end everything turned out good.

Vector art work for the composition, i was able to keep all the images inside the circles on the same layer because there was no need to move them for the second half of the animation, this made things much easier for me in terms of moving things around.

The final rendered section Armadillo.

Silent movie '5'

My final selected Silent movie projects.

Having revisited this brief after learning much more with after effects, i came to realise that with simple definitions of words, should come simple concepts and designs, minimalism within after effects can be very effective, given that what your doing is well considered and you make the movements needed as realistic and as well thought through as possible, I decided to make them as simple as possible in order to not distract the viewer with too much going on.


Snap.


1 /  A redesigned version of my initial ideas, using larger letters to give a clearer design, and making a few minor adjustments such as, the letters snapping as each letter hits it, and using colour in a more specific way.



2 /  A newly developed idea, using the letters in half entering either side of the screen quite fast and connecting in the middle whilst transforming to italics due to the speed, i have fiddled with this design quite a few times making minor changes with colour and composition, deciding weather or not to use black, i feel the white alone gives enough impact.



3 /  Another new idea, this time working with the P as though it is attached to a hinge an whilst the letter comes to a sudden stop the P i snapped and left to swing underneath the letter, i am particularly happy with the pace and movement with the swing in this motion graphic, again using simple flat colours to gives the best impact possible.



Bounce.


1 /  One of my very first ideas for bounce re - created with a more crisp feel to it, including the easy ease technique which benefitted this project more than other, the easy ease, gave the O the perfect effect of somebody on a trampoline gaining momentum, and slowing down as they reach their peak, only to speed up again when approaching the bottom.



2 /  Perhaps my favourite silent movie, due to the really animated feel to it, this video reminds me of the pixar ident with the lamp shade jumping on the 'I', again using easy and another warping technique for the 'B UNCE'.

60 seconds.

Finishing touches to my title sequence now, i am fairly happy with the result, most things went really smoothly with a few minor hick ups, will be making a few alterations before hand in to make sure everything's in time and flowing swimmingly, my favourite part of the motion graphic is the transition from the gecko's hand to the full half list of lizards, i feel the timing with the sound works really well and it's nicely noticeable, through putting these ideas into animation i feel i have learnt a hell of a lot this module, this is probably the most beneficial module so far, although i do not wish to be fully committed to motion graphics, i could happily take another module doing this, i would like to dedicate one of the open briefs from 3rd year to motion graphics.

Using techniques such as easy ease / write on / brush reveal / Offset type have aided this project immensely  and through spending hours sat learning these has been extremely beneficial.

Ident 3 pt. 1

Just the beginning of my 3rd Ident, this composition will be placed in another, due to me having to scale down all layers except in the original composition one of the images scales differently to the others, by adding the composition to another i can scale all the contents down appropriately.

Ident 3.

Finally finished my 3rd Ident, had a little trouble as posted below but managed to fix everything, i particularly like the simplicity of this ident, especially with the music, with a lot of discovery science ident's there programmes don't have a great deal going on, so this one fits best of all in my opinion.

Ident. 2

Finishing touches to my second ident, this time in keeping with the title sequence design i have kept flat colour and simple graphics, including one image of a lizard hand, i also included a numbers effect as the line draws from finger tip to finger tip, showing the length, again another very simple effect but used in the right context looks quite effective. i have happy with the way this one turned out, an will probably use it in my final 4 idents.

Ident 3. Solved Problems.

After all the trouble trying to apply the mask i received some help and instead of using a mask, i used a circle shape, and applied alpha mask, which works a lot more like a still layer, allowing me to then just scale down the size of the image beneath thus giving me the perfect solution to my problem.

Ident 3. problems.

Having a little trouble playing around with a mask. i am trying to show part of the lizard to then reveal the whole image, but from the bottom left hand size, i can't seem to scale the mask up, only expand it, which creates and expansion from the centre but i need to mask scale to be from the bottom left to the top right of my image.

Ident 1.

Starting with my first ident, i felt i needed to mix up the designs with some imagery, just to give a different feel to it, still including my timeline.

I prefer the design for the ident with the included imagery, but just for the ident, the fat coloured 60 second title sequence works better as it is, due to the information within it, i may try and include some more image into the title sequence but for now i will continue with the idents.

Had to change a few minor things, the sound being one, the sound had a very abrupt ending in this ident, so i simply changed the audio level towards the end to fade out the soundtrack.