It’s been a while since I write something, mostly because I was out of the country, and second because I’ve been quite busy with projects, anyway I found a space to write about what I think was the highlight from last term’s blue screen project.
The brief stated that we needed to create a motion graphics piece incorporating blue screen footage and computer generated (CG) graphics, I personaly think the project could’ve been better, I didn’t structure my work as good as I thought and ended up trying to develop my concept out of the media I had created so far, I think visually it looks good, but the concept is in a way shouting for help.
Though I think it was a success, because thanks to this I realized that what drives me the most is creating graphics, environments where graphics, or in this case footage, can come to life and transport people to a different place.
The highlight of this project was this image, I think this image gave me a step forward on finding my own style as a designer, I like playing with textures and shapes, and this illustration helped me go a little further into this style, not a style for everything that I will do but rather something that I will use when I design personal stuff, or when necessary for a client.
*I’m having some difficulties with the sound of the video, I will post it as soon as I fix that.
Term two, the brief for the first assignment for Motion Design II arrives, create a 20 seconds character animation with a voice-over.
I took my little doodles from my sketchbook put them in Illustrator and there it was, Me… well a childish almost girly version of me, reason why the voice-over is my fellow mexican classmate Jadyn. I’m not saying much but the fact that I wanted to make it as minimal and clean as possible, and give it the Sesame Street kinda feeling with the sound effects.
I was going through my Foundation stuff and found this, my first Motion Graphics Project. This project had two goals to deliver, me going a little more in depth with after effects and try to create something that could be a portfolio piece.
I got a hold of After Effects quicker thanks to this project, so that goal was reached and the other one, well, personally I don’t mid showing this to people so I think I covered it as well, but see for yourself.
I’m going to finalize this series of posts with my Foundation Final Project, why? Because it contains some of the work I wrote about on the reminiscent series, it also contains other previous projects I worked on.
This piece was developed with the intention to serve as an intro to a client, job interview, it’s fast-paced essence would quickly showcase some of the work I’ve done, with a brief explanation of the problem and the solution given.
