W5B

I chose to animate the Google maps logo for my project because it will not only be easier but the NASA logo has already been animated. I also feel that I will still be able to create a meaningful animation with this logo.

Here are my written story board drawings.

Here are my Illustrator storyboards:

W5A

In class today, I brainstormed which logo I would like to animate. My choices are between the NASA logo and the Google Maps logo.

With the NASA logo, I wanted to start off with the whole screen blue, and the vector stars twinkling subtly in the background. The NASA type would either be there already or fade and scale in. Next, one of the stars would come around and turn into a shooting star around the NASA type. Simultaneously, the red line would swoop in from the right side. Finally, the logo would scale to the way it is now, with the blue circle not filling the screen.

With this logo, I wanted to start with just the blue white and grey shapes showing. The green and yellow shapes will appear to illustrate the moving road. The G will animate in from the ground first turning a slightly darker green that the logo than emerging as white, as if the logo was coming out of the grass. Next a small red dot will appear and suddenly animate from the ground from up to a pin point. The darker red dot in the center of the pin will scale up. 

W4B

This is my first attempt at animation my phrase. I wanted to convey both anxiety and calmness. Much like how you might feel when you are anxious about something that is going to happen the next day so you can't sleep, but are also exhausted.

Message in Motion

This is my final version of message in motion. I kept the same concept but I added a gaussian blur effect to some of the words to convey tiredness. I also fixed the part that says "a thousand pictures fill my head" to better emphasize the feeling of thoughts filling the head, while at the same time trying to create a cleaner animation.

W4A

Today, we didn't have class so we worked on finding a phrase to animate. The phrase I found is a quote from an Eric Whitacre choral song called "Sleep."

Upon my pillow safe in bed
a thousand pictures fill my head
I cannot sleep my minds aflight
and yet my limbs are made of lead.

W3B

Today we worked on an animation for the word rhythm and this is what I came up with. I wanted to keep it simple and convey simply the beat.

W3A

In class we worked on a new animation project. It is an exercise where we have to animate shapes to  a song from the drive. I chose the song I chose because I thought that the fast and sudden sounds would be interesting to bring to a visual medium

W2B

Dream Project