Animation

Taking ideas and turning them into short videos

Using inspiration from colors to objects surrounding us, to create designs that turn into video format.

These videos came from classes AVC 177 Introduction into Photoshop and AVC 178 learning how to edit videos in Adobe Premiere Pro, audio editing and cleanup in Adobe Audition, and introductory motion graphics in Adobe After Effects.

Classes were taken at Mesa Community College

Photoshop First Animation

AVC 177 was the introduction for creating animation videos. This was the first one I composed from the beginning to the end. We learned how to create brushes to make the trees, to taking an image and making it believable that the wings are moving to make the birds fly. Learned how to utilize timing to make smooth transitions between the scenes.

Rotoscoping

AVC 177 final video. We got to choose our assignment, and fell in love of incorporating ASL with animation. By taking the recording and drawing on it to create the unique video of introducing myself and seeing the hand signs clearly at 32FPS.

Transforming a Poem into an Animation

AVC 178 was my introduction in the Adobe After Effects & Premiere. This assignment was the first one we did in which we had to take a short poem and incorporate it in a video. I took the poem, Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog by Judith Viorst. We were allowed to take videos from free platforms or create our own to create the scenes of the poem. I used my own voice to “read” the poem, and added sound effects along with my own Mother’s voice to emphasize certain key frames of the poem along with own dog, Joker at certain points of the video.

Your Own Scene

In AVC 178 this was my final for that class. Where we had to hand drawn 20 different images and scan them into the computer. From there we had to send them into Illustrator to trace over the image to make the lines darker, and if needed export into Photoshop to fix them. From there we added our scenes into After Effects, where we made objects to look like they’re moving like my windmill. Put all those moving objects along with the rest of your drawings to create the video.