Green Marbles Animation

Created this Animation using a tutorial from videocopilot.com. Created the marbles and animated them in After Effects, added music and titles in Premiere Pro.

Thoughts:  I really liked the marble effect instead of the glass.

Lesson Learned:  There was so much that I learned that I can't quite remember everything. I did this twice with different textures and I learned to not have a white color in the actual orb as it glows to bright.

On the plus side, I found this project kinda fun and liked the effects so it makes me want to keep playing around with these tutorials and create more stuff.

Google Slide Show

Created an Interactive Info Graphic Google Slide Show with 5 buttons with different information for each slide. Created images in Illustrator then brought them into Google Slides and made an infographic about the 5 elements of a Pentagram.



Thoughts:  Simplicity at its best.

Lesson Learned:  After multiple attempts at getting my first image to fit correctly within the screen and going back and forth trying to resize it to fit better, I started clicking on all the options until I was finally able to change the size of the document.

On the plus side, clicking on all the options showed me all the options available, so I got a better understanding of what the program can and can't do.

Packaging Layout

Created an InDesign packaging example for a local company called RimRock Manufacturing. The company requested a two sided insert to be placed into a product named Spool Saver.

Thoughts:  Wish the instructions were a little less confusing.


Kind of hard to make an instruction sheet if you don't know what the instructions are.

Lesson Learned:  How to make an insert, and how to print on both sides of the paper. I also learned that some instructions that you get from a company can be really confusing and not all there.

On the plus side, this company is going to pick the design they like and one of the student designers will get to see their design being used in an actual product out there on the shelves.

3D POP UP ANIMATION

Had to animate at least 8 images into a 3D Pop Up Animation using After Effects and Premiere Pro. I chose to animate some of the images that I created this semester in Illustrator.

Thoughts:  At first I tried making it look like an actual book opening up to a pop up scene, but that wasn't working for me, I tried looking everywhere for a tutorial but found nothing, so I went with what you see here. Not exactly what I imagined, but I feel it turned out alright.

Lesson Learned:  How to make images appear to POP out of the ground. I also learned to play around with camera angles, shadows, and lighting in After Affects. I think I need some more practice with lighting and shadowing stuff at the right angles.

On the plus side, I am still interested in learning more of the Pop Up Effect and want to finish trying to put together my first scene that is more storybook style.