Something that I have learned as I have continued to use after effects over the course of this semester is that putting things in place and adding motion to certain elements is one thing, and making them look smooth is another thing. Making the movement of the designs looks effortless Read more…
Shadows are an interesting way to give certain typographic elements a bit of extra flare to them by playing around with the dimension and the lighting of the letter forms. I have seen this done a few times in videos or with logos so I wanted to find out a Read more…
This was something that I wanted to do which was sort of niche for the commercial series project, but something that I could see myself using randomly at some other point when creating using after effects. In my video I used it as a way to make bubbles and text Read more…
This is a technique that I have seen used time and time again in video clips and a lot of intros with the light interacting with logos or text. I wanted to incorporate it into one of the frames of my commercial series so I looked on youtube to see Read more…
For my final mini movie there was a scene where I was looking to animate legs and create a walking cycle. This was a bit more complicate than I was expecting it to be especially because of the nature of my illustration. It was a line drawing so it made Read more…
Something that has become more and more prominent as a design trend is simple geometric cartoon characters. They are often flat and do not have much detail, which makes it easier for them to be manipulated and animated. Most of the examples of this that I have seen do not Read more…
This is an app that allows you to log the care of your house plants and also learn a bit more about the best ways to care for them. What I like most about this app is the combination of simplicity and sophistication. It is simple and clean where it Read more…
This app was design to help people learn more about political candidates during election season. The app gives the user easy access to information about each candidate’s views on current issues and policies. The app as a whole is organized in a way that is easy to navigate and does Read more…
Office is an app that displays news stories from all different cultural realms. Something that I enjoyed about this app was the way in which the video displays it. The video features two three dimensional iPhones, each of them slowly moving through the app just as a user would. The Read more…
This app animation video is done for an app that specializes in fitness. Immediately when I saw this video I was drawn to the vertical carousel because I do not think I have ever seen this done before. Typically when a carousel is applied to a website or an app Read more…