Branding By Eric Torres

  Animation Original Post Critique Reflection Learning After Effects was a bit challenging. I had experience in video editing software so I somewhat knew what I was doing, but there is a lot different in After Effects compared to traditional video editing softwares. I had to search up a lot of videos, learning how to do certain effects or actions and some of them I had practiced or tried to recreate but they either failed or I found that it wasn't what I wanted to include in my animation. When it came to the creative process, I wanted to embrace the pen like font I used in my logo so I decided to go with strokes for each movement to slowly make up the logo. Originally I wanted it to invert colors and leave that as the end but after critiques, I was able to build upon the animation more. I ended up removing the flashing of the logo parts, and made a slow gradient to color in order to add some more flare. I was out for student critique but I know it would've helped me out on what...

  Reflection The goal I have for my animation is to animate the script of my personal through brush strokes, to write out Tor. When writing out the storyboard I planned to separate it into 9 frames spanning 10 seconds with it slowly being written and each individual part requiring at least one frame to be written out. I then planed for the next frame to have potentially a flash where the text color shifts from black to white and the background shifts from white to black. I was also thinking about giving it a glow effect but I am not too sure if I want to continue with the idea. I plan to use after effects in order do this mainly to challenge myself but also because I feel like this application has everything that I need in order to achieve animating this goal. I will research on youtube and online how to do the brush strokes or anything that could be useful to what I want to do for my animation.