Information Design - Project 1 & 2




Date: 4.01.2022 - 15.02.2022 (Week 1 - Week 7)
Name: Ng Ee Chyn
Student ID: 0344762
Module: Information Design
Minor Course: Creative Media Design




INSTRUCTIONS


TASKS

Project 2: Exercise 3 - Kinetic Typography

Week 1

Motion Graphics
Motion Graphics (Week 1, 6 Jan 2022)

INDIVIDUAL TASK: 

3 Professional Motion Graphics:

1. YouTube video: Beginning Graphic Design: Typography
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sByzHoiYFX0 (Week 1, 6 Jan 2022)

This video has a simple text animation and clearly explain about the basic typography. I love how they combine visual audio and content congruity, it has matches perfectly what is shown. I belived this vidoe could help beginner to easily understand.

2. YouTube video: Japanese Style Typography
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcTsgK78nLE (Week 1, 6 Jan 2022)

This short motion graphic video is about Japanese-style typography. It has shown a unique style of Japanese atmosphere with the combination of colour, music rhythm and dynamic, design, pattern, typography and etc. I like animation move when the beat drop, the video give a feel of mysterious and cool. 

3. YouTube video: Would you raise the bird that murdered your children? - Steve Rothstein
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAPPT7gcl5s (Week 1, 6 Jan 2022)

This video is clearly explaining the story with music and colourful graphics which went along perfectly. TED-Ed always makes this kind of video which has made the learning become interesting and peoples are easier to understand and learn from it. 
 
Week 2

Motion Graphics - Practical 1
Motion Graphics-Practical 1 (Week 2, 11 Jan 2022 )

Week 3

INDIVUDUAL TASK:

This is my first time using Adobe After Effect, it took me 4 hours to practice and complete 3 seconds of kinetic typography "So, so what?" music video. Through this practice, I had understood the basic tools in After Effect. 
Process of practicing Adobe After Effect (Week 3, 18 Jan 2022)

Practical Adobe After Effect Outcome(Week 3, 18 Jan 2022)

GROUP TASK:

Music Video Exercise


MV Lyric Breakdown (Week 3, 19 Jan 2022)

My animate parts (Week 3, 19 Jan 2022)

After practising the exercise, I can smoothly use After Effect to finish my group exercise. It was hard at first, but the more I practice, the better the outcome. 

Process of creating lines 16-20 (Week 3, 19 Jan 2022)

Lines 16-20
16 "And I don't need you"
17 "And guess what?"
18 "I'm having more fun"
19 "And now that we're done"
20 "I'm gonna show you tonight"
Music Video Group Exercise outcome, lines 16-20 (Week 3, 19 Jan 2022)

Process of creating lines 40-41(Week 3, 19 Jan 2022)

Lines 40-41
40 "I gave u life"
41 "I gave my all"
Music Video Group Exercise outcome, lines 40-41 (Week 3, 19 Jan 2022)

Final outcome
Final Outcome Group Music Video (Week 5, 1 Jan 2022)


Project 2: Exercise 4 - Motion Graphic Chart

Motion Graphic Chart(Week 3, 21 Jan)

Week 4
Final Outcome
Motion Graphic Animation Bar Chart final outcome (Week 4, 27 Jan)






Project 1: Instructable Poster

Week 4
Research & References:
References (Week 4, 29 Jan 2022)

Week 5

I decided to choose the Peppa Granny recipe for my Instructable Poster:

Peppa Granny (Week 5, 5 Feb 2022)

Peppa Granny's recipe YouTube (Week 5, 5 Feb 2022)

Recipe Breakdown:
Pici all’Aglione (Pasta with Garlic Sauce) From Tuscany, Italian
Ingredients:
  • 400g zero zero flour
  • Semolina flour
  • 1 egg
  • Water
  • 1 garlic
  • Olive oil
  • Peperoncino(hot chilli peppers)
  • Tomato concentrate
  • 1 tin puree tomato

Dough:

  1. Use 400g zero zero flour, add 1 egg & enough water and mix until smooth and silky

  2. Slice the dough and cut each one into battens

  3. Roll using straight fingers, in Tuscany pici can be thicker. Drop the pici into semolina flour to stop them from sticking

  4. Cook the pici in boiling salted water for around 2 minutes

Sauce:

  1. Fries several cloves of garlic with plenty of olive oil and cook until it can be crushed with a spoon. Add peperoncino to taste, follow by tomato concentrate, a tin puree tomato and a little of water

  2. Stire the pici into garlicky tomato sauce



This is my fonts, sketches ideas, progression:


This is my sketches ideas:
My first idea(left sketch) is there will be 2 parts which are pasta dough recipe and another part is sauce recipe, both will mix together to become a Pici all’Aglione. For the second idea(right sketch) is there will be a blackboard behind it and a sketch with chalk like a coffee shop chalkboard manu. 

Sketches (Week 5, 5 Feb 2022)

For the first progression, I was having a problem drawing the noodles(progression 1, right corner). Therefore, I found this video as my reference. I create different sizes of ellipse shape tools and combine them accordingly from large to small size to make the pasta noodles.

Noodle reference video(Week 5, 5 Feb 2022)

Besides, I also found a splashing sauce image as a reference to make like a sauce and noodle mixing together. 
Progression 1 (Week 5, 5 Feb 2022)

I used Buree chalk font for the title & Chalkboard for the body but found out the recipes is too much words to fit in a poster. Hence I have to paraphrase it again.

Progression 2 (Week 5, 5 Feb 2022)

Week 6

Here's my final outcome of Peppa Granny's recipe Instructable Infographic Poster: 
I decided to combine both ideas because I think the second sketches infographic will be a bit messy and confusing which will cause hard to read. Hence, I use the first idea sequence and second idea chalkboard idea to create the Instructable Poster final outcome.

Instructable Poster Final Outcome (Week 6, 8 Feb 2022)

Week 7

Illustrator drawing outline (Week 7, 16 Feb 2022)

Progress of creating animation frame in Illustrator (Week 7, 16 Feb 2022)

One of the problems I faced is the Illustrator outline has made a lot of line grouping when I move to After Effect. When I was thinking about redoing everything, I found this video to fix my problem. :)
Chalkboard Writing Effect Tutorial (Week 7, 17 Feb 2022)

This is a minute of recording my working process for fun, it took 2 days to complete the video. Even though it was tiring but it was quite fun at the same time, and I'm satisfied with the outcome!:D
Progress of creating animation in After Effect (Week 7, 17 Feb 2022)

Progress of adding sound effect in After effect (Week 8, 20 Feb 2022) 

Final Outcome
Animated Instructable Poster (Week 8, 21 Feb 2022) 



REFLECTIONS

In these projects, I have experienced creating kinetic typography, instructable infographics posters and animation. It was quite challenging for the first time because it was quite rushed to complete everything including exercises in the short semester. But gratefully, I managed to complete everything on the time. During completing both project 1 and project 2, I found out I have improved a lot. I'm able to be more familiar with Illustrator, especially making animation in After Effect. Besides, I also found out that a lot of animations from Instagram and TikTok is made by After Effect which made me more interested in After Effect. In these projects, I believed that the effort and amount of time have shown great results. I believed it was worth it.

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