Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Exploration 1 - Pictorial Compositions


"As a designer, you are constantly called upon to organize elements in an appealing composition.   This exploration gives the opportunity to practice creating animation by using 3 elements as ‘graphic substitutes’.  This exploration reinforces the concept that a motion designer needs to give the video screen the same thoughtful considerations for the visual composition, that one might use when creating a printed design piece such as a poster."



The Assignment:

Create at 10 second animation utilizing only three elements; a dot, a square, and a line of text (about 15- 20 letters) in the font of your choice.

Process:

The following, are a series of brainstorming sketches that allowed me to arrive to my top three key frames, on which I was going to base my animation.


After choosing three compositions that we considered worked best as a whole. We then went on to composing the animations in after effects based on our storyboard comps.

The Final Animation:




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