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Information Design: Project 2

25.1.2023 - 5.2.2023 / Week 3 - Week 4
Sylvia Lau (0356130)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Information Design - Project 2
INSTRUCTION


Week 3
Group Task:
In this class, we need to present an explanation of Miller's Law (Chunking) and provide an example of how to utilize this technique in terms of visual delivery for each of these approaches: a well-designed infographic, UI/UX, web, app, games, etc.


Exercise 3: Animation Chart
During week 3, we were required to learn to animate a chart from the video tutorial. In the video, I learned about animating pie charts, donut charts, and bar charts.


Figure 1.1 Pie Chart

From the tutorial video, I did a simple pie chart. Then, we were assigned to create a motion graphic chart with the information given. I was required to do a donut chart and the topic was about the level of stress experienced among college students.


Information of Donut Chart: https://whattobecome.com/blog/college-student-stress-statistics/

Figure 1.2 Trim Path ( Donut Chart )

I set the time of completing the chart as 2 seconds, and the end of the trim path of four shapes was 100%, 70.5%, 50.8%, and 1.5%. 

Figure 1.3 Trim Path ( Lines )

Figure 1.4 Animation on Number at the center

I learned this technique from the link given: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxGPlNxgtg

Figure 1.5 Texts

I applied scale on the percentage numbers and body texts.

Title: Tw Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold, 65px
Body Text: Tw Cen MT Regular, 50px
Percentage: Tw Cen MT Regular, 70px

Figure 1.6 Final Outcome

Week 4

Group Task:
We were required to present an explanation on the topic of Manuel Lima's 9 Directives Manifesto and do also present one good designed infographic that best illustrates the 9 directives for information visualizations and one poorly designed infographic that failed to address the directives.


Exercise 5: Vector/Character Animation

We learned about vector and character animation during the week 4 class by following the tutorial and slides given. Mr. Martin also taught us on doing the wiggle effect and puppet position pin tool. 


We were assigned to create an animation with the files given. I was required to do "A", in this exercise, we must apply the bounce effect, motion blur, easy ease the keyframes, and wiggle or puppet position pin tool. 

Figure 2.1 Separated Layers

After taking a look at the graphics given, I thought of applying wiggle animation is more suitable. So, I separated the graphics into different layers and imported them into After Effect. 

Figure 2.2 Car 

Firstly, I animated the car by adjusting the position from out of the screen to the position the characters are in. 

Figure 2.3 Woman

For the appearance of the woman, I adjusted the position and applied the bounce effect and motion blur to it. Then, I planned on doing a waving movement on her hand and the board, so I moved the anchor point to her shoulder and adjusted the rotation from about 0 to 10. 

Figure 2.4 Man

The animation of the man was quite similar to the woman, with just a little adjustment in the amplitude of rotation of the hand. 

Figure 2.5 Final Outcome

Exercise 3: Kinetic Typography

During week 2 classes, Mr. Martin taught us to do a simple kinetic typography on the song "rock star". 

Figure 3.1 Lyrics

Firstly, insert a new solid layer as the background colour, then type out the lyrics and arrange them to the layout that I wanted.

Figure 3.2 Animate the lyrics

Adjust the time of appearance of each text, select all of the texts, parent and link them to a new animation layer. Also, apply 3D layer on the texts. At the animation layer, I can animate the text by setting keyframes at the position layer.

Figure 3.3 Final Outcome

Group Project:

Before beginning the project, we were required to find art direction. Below were some kinetic typography from Youtube:

1. Girls Like You
It's a kinetic typography that was posted on Youtube by Just Denny Motions. For project 2, my group decided to choose a song with not very strong rhythm, so I think this video can be used as one of my references.

2. Price Tag
This is also a kinetic typography video on Youtube posted by Mingu Kang. I like this video because the transitions are smooth and some graphics are interesting to watch.

We had a discussion on what songs we wanted to use for this project, since there was different opinion, they set up a poll to vote. Our final decision would be "As It Was". We break the lyrics into seven parts and picked which part we wanted to animate. 


Figure 4.1 Ideation

After listening to the whole song, since the opening music was a bit too long, so I think can put in an animation of the CD player and follow with the music beat.

During week 3, we had a discussion on the font and colour scheme for this project. The font we would be using were Singly Linked Font and Comic Gecko Font. 

Figure 4.2 Font

Figure 4.3 Colour Scheme

Figure 4.4 Progress of the first and second lines

Figure 4.5 Progress of the third line

Figure 4.6 Progress of the fourth line

Figure 4.7 First Attempt

Figure 4.8 Changes after feedback

According to the feedback given, I rearranged the texts from the second line in a safe margin.

Figure 4.9 Final Outcome

Final Submission:


Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Kb8GPK1-vG4

Feedback

If there is any I could think of properly the font size and position. If possible please check with the safe margin, and make sure the presenting text is within the safe margin.

Reflection

From the exercises, I have learned a lot about animation techniques in After Effects. This brings great help to me in Project 1 Animation and the Final Project. During our group work, while doing kinetic typography, I think we were lack of communication to discuss the project together, so the outcome seems to be a little different. After being given advice from the lecturer, we started to have meetings to decide on our colour scheme and text font. We started to have more interaction with each other in the group. 

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