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…
Prototyping is a very important part to the creative process when creating UI. InVision is actually a great tool for creating nice and clean app prototypes that you can go through click by click to different screens. One of the nice things about InVision is that you just have to Read more…
Whenever we were first introduced to Invision I was pretty intimidated by the idea of having to learn a new program especially once I had become a bit more accustomed to Adobe XD. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was not too different from XD just with better Read more…
This effect is something that I have seen used in countless clips and videos around the internet. Essentially what it does is make the text come on to the screen in a way that looks like the type is being drawn. I wanted to learn how to do this because Read more…
This was a tutorial I watch to see how to animate a logo that was in a png format because the elements of the logo were not created in After Effects. I learned a bit more about how to isolate different parts of the logo and how to animate each Read more…