Week 3: For this rotation, we are introduced to motion graphics and how to apply a few of the 12 principles of animation within adobe aftereffect; animating using ease in/ out, arcs, squash and stretch as well as animating heavy and light bouncing balls.

Whilst I’m not proud of the squash and stretch or the arc experiment, the bouncing balls and the ease in and out experiment I found to look more natural. However, initially, the rotation of the bouncing balls were a challenge as I would end up rotating it too much, changing the position of the ball when it would hit the ground.

In the following video, I’ve experimented with overlapping action on a jumping figure, using hair.

In this experiment, I wanted to add in squash and stretch in the hair to emphasise the movement and the gravity acting on the figure and the hair.

Week 4: For the second half of the rotation, we’re tasked to make a 10 second video using one of four provided audios on adobe photoshop and after effects.

Seagulls

Clean lineart (with audio):

With background and sound:

Finished Video

Since I’m unfamiliar with adobe, using after effects and photoshop was quite challenging. I think I may have overestimated myself during this project as I was unable to finish it on time. I think that once i get used to them and start using these programmes more often, I’ll be able to finish something similar in a smaller amount of time.