Text Animator Exercise

Assignment Information

Name of Assignment: Text Animator Exercise

Class: Motion Graphics

Due Date: 3/17/2021

Date Posted: 3/16/2021

Program: Adobe After Effects

Prompt: Ice Cream on a Hot day

Assignment Description: Using only text and/or symbols, we had to illustrate a given prompt using range selectors and text animators. The piece had to be about six seconds long.

Project 2 — Video Composite

Assignment Information

Name of Assignment: Project 2 — Video Composite

Class: Special Topics Art & Design – Compositing

Due Date: 3/12/2021

Date Posted: 3/10/2021

Program: Adobe After Effects

Project Description: The goal of this project was to experiment with Adobe After Effects green screen keying. We had to take a short video of ourselves doing a simple motion and mask it onto a backplate.

Lower Thirds Exercise

Assignment Information

Name of Assignment: Lower Thirds Exercise

Class: Motion Graphics

Due Date: 3/8/2021

Date Posted: 3/5/2021

Program: Adobe After Effects

Assignment Description: We were tasked with creating a “lower thirds” motion graphic to pair with and add context to a video. We needed to shoot the video and create/animate shape and text layers to create a dynamic and unique lower thirds banner. The exercise could be humorous, but needed to be clean and portfolio-worthy.

Animated Logo Project 2nd Iteration

Assignment Information

Name of Assignment: Animated Logo Project 2nd Iteration

Class: Motion Graphics

Due Date: 3/1/2021

Date Posted: 2/28/2021

Program: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere

Assignment Description: After our critique of the Animated Logo Project, we were tasked with improving the logo in terms of the 12 principles of Animation. We had to apply as many principles as we could to our logo.

Composite Quiz 3

Assignment Information

Name of Assignment: Composite Quiz 3

Class: Special Topics Art & Design – Compositing

Due Date: 3/3/2021

Date Posted: 2/26/2021

Program: Adobe After Effects

Project Description: After a tutorial on how to mask out a subject off of a green screen in video form in Adobe After Effects, we were tasked with masking out our own version and applying a background.

Composite Quiz 2

Assignment Information

Name of Assignment: Composite Quiz 2

Class: Special Topics Art & Design – Compositing

Due Date: 2/26/2021

Date Posted: 2/25/2021

Program: Adobe Premiere

Project Description: After a tutorial on how to mask out a subject off of a green screen in video form in Adobe Premiere, we were tasked with masking out our own version and applying a background.

Animated Logo Project

Project Information

Name of Project: Animated Logo Project

Class: Motion Graphics

Due Date: 2/22/2021

Date Posted: 2/21/2021

Program: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere

Project Description: Following the Static Logo exercise, we were to use our logo idea and animate it for exactly five seconds. We needed to keep in mind transitions off/on screen and how the logo would sit in a 16:9 ratio. The animations needed to enhance the qualities of the logo itself.

Countdown Exercise

Assignment Information

Name of Assignment: Countdown Exercise

Class: Motion Graphics

Due Date: 2/3/2021

Date Posted: 2/2/2021

Program: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop

Assignment Description: We were tasked with creating a countdown from numbers 10-1 in Adobe After Effects. The countdown needed to be exactly ten seconds long, with each number representing a second in time. Additionally, we needed to create the numbers in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and import them into After Effects.

Shapes & Transform Exercise

Assignment Information

Name of Assignment: Shapes & Transform Exercise

Class: Motion Graphics

Due Date: 2/1/2021

Date Posted: 1/31/2021

Program: Adobe After Effects

Assignment Description: We were tasked with using the transform tools in After Effects to animate simple shapes. We needed at least three shape layers and the animation had to be shorter than 20 seconds. The goal of this exercise is to experiment with the different tools available in the program.

Animated Illustration Final Project

Project Information

Name of Project: Animated Illustration Final Project

Class: Illustration

Due Date: 12/2/2020

Date Posted: 12/2/2020

Program: Adobe Photoshop

Size: 7 in x 4 in (for each composition)

Project Description: We were tasked with listening to three podcasts given to us. Upon choosing one, we needed to create three simple animations to show what the podcast is about and entice viewers to listen to the podcast. The animations needed to loop.