When I enrolled in school, I was looking forward to learning all about the Visual Effects field, but I didn’t really know much about the Motion Graphics part of the program. I had never thought of working in the Motion Graphics industry before, but I was excited to try something new and push myself out of my comfort zone: Designing. During the earlier stages of the program, I had to take classes on design techniques, typography, color, image manipulation and digital illustration. All of those classes paid off, once I took my first motion graphics class. It was then when I understood how important all those things are to create great compositions and therefore successful motion graphics pieces. Besides that of course, I had to learn the program After Effects. I had never even opened it before so it was all a little bit intimidating at the beginning, but now I have to say, it is one of my favorite program to work with!

These first two videos are from my first motion graphics class. We were just getting used to the program, animating graphics and to the whole timing thing.

Here is a title sequence for one of my favorite movies: The Motorcycle Diaries

This is a little promo video I put together for one of my Favorite Bands: Langhorne Slim

These two are a couple of short product ads we created during my Intermediate Motion Graphics class. We were learning more techniques – like how to use displacement maps and expressions.

And then, here are my Midterm and Final projects for the Intermediate Motion Graphics class. We had to create music videos using all the things we learned through out the quarter.

It’s always exciting to work on Motion Graphics projects. I’ve never really thought of myself as a highly creative person or a designer, so it’s kind of cool to brainstorm and put together pieces like this! I had a lot of fun working on these so I hope you enjoy them too! I can’t wait to take the Advanced class next!!

PS – Please note that youtube plays them a little jumpy and also the quality is poor because of the web compression :-(

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