Category: Animation

Title: Fear

Semester/Year: Fall 2023

Software: Adobe After Effects

For this project I wanted to tell a story with fear. It took me a while to get used to After Effects as this is my first time using it but eventually I got there. I used the many transformations to tell a story of the small red rectangle being frightened and fearful of the bigger green rectangle. I used position, scale and opacity to convey fear as well as changing the color of the solid background.

title: switching positions

semester: 2023/fall

software: after effects

i decided to animate to a song, it’s one of my favorite songs and I wanted to go for an overall happy vibe. i chose shapes that I liked, round shapes, hearts, and stars. the colors came from the album cover being green and after I was bored with that I started to hue it more and more toward red, ultimately ending on that. as for the text and/or accents, I just slightly made them more saturated and brighter/desaturated and darker so it stays cohesive. the timing came from the song, I tried to use text to match up the words on time and make the transitions go with the beat. I think the most challenging part of this assignment was coming up with more creative ways to display text or do typography, something I think I struggle with outside of this assignment.

the song I used is “positions” by Ariana Grande

SYSTEM: Adobe after effects project

Semester: Fall 2023

theme: the theme of this animation is to complement each color that is used in animations, videos, and art designs in animation as a whole and I think the colors red, and blue represent most used colors that even pro animators use often to make their work stand out.

I used polygons in this animation project to symbolize the colors that I like the most in anything whether it be a design or something else. the reason why I picked red is because it’s my first favorite color that I like because it also goes well with black and white. the reason why I picked blue as my second favorite color is because it has much more combinations it can go with than red can which why picked this color as well.

the picture is a little bit better hopefully everyone can see it.

Title: Confusion

Semester/Year: Fall 2023

Software: Adobe After Effects

For this project I decided to make a mini animation about the emotion of confusion using After Effects. We had to include text of the word itself and I thought that it might be interesting if I made each letter move on its own to communicate confusion and chaos. I chose grays and black and white because I liked the simplicity of it and it reminds me of older animations and videos, like the ones we saw in class. Timing and pacing wasn’t too difficult because this project is only ten seconds.

“Excitement”

Fall 2023

After Effects

I animated the emotion “Excitement,” using a basic shape with a floating animation path, which I then duplicated and nested within the composition.