Jazele Assignment 4

 For this work I have decided to make an animated tour of the yoga studio that I go to. I felt like I wanted to show off everything that Toledo Yoga entails and where/ what everything is. When I was first a new student, I know it can be hard to find everything and also feel comfortable in a new space. So I wanted to express the fact that at Toledo Yoga everyone is very welcoming and the ending represents how we all are a part of a wonderful community that wants new people to join. I used small signs that pop up throughout the video to represent little signs and use to show off the space for everyone who is new to this place.

Jazele Assignment 3

For this assignment I decided to use the practice of yoga to represent my self portrait. I have really been getting more and more into yoga and the benefits of clearing your mind that come along with it. For this I decided to create my own small sequence flow and go through it in a way that people would be interested to view/ breathe along. The circles represent the importance of breath in yoga. While the circle expands it means to breathe in and while it contacts you breathe out, with small breaks at the end of the inhale and exhale. Each movement is aligned with the breathe as with yoga that is how you should focus, to maintain nd mind body connection.

Assignment 3 so far

 This is what I have forsake that I know I'm going to use. The circles expand as we breathe in and contract as we breathe out- breath is very important in yoga and that's why I'm visually symbolizing it. 

I am working with the background currently and have a few different ideas and starts for it but that's mostly what I'm looking for insight on.

Project 3 research examples and Drafts

Yoga Pose from Kritwalee Seneetantikul on Vimeo.

 This video I found because I'm thinking of making a yoga-themed- video. I want to show the unique motions and relations of the poses. This video interested me because it started to make me think of what the backgrounds could be doing in my video.

This is also a yoga related video and I really like that they used the poses natural shapes and names to then show you why they are called what they are called by relating them to the actual animal by turning the stick drawing into it. 

I also just really liked the idea of the stick figure- and it made me think about maybe drawing on myself- or possibly getting rid of myself for the stick figure.

these are my drafts- not too sure how to draw what I am thinking. But, as of now I am planning to take a video of myself going through a series of yoga poses and I want to work with lines and geometry to create a visual representation of the motion (where's its coming from and where its going) when I am in mountain pose which is standing still and straight I want there to be no lines showing, but from then on I want the lines to extend from my hands and my feet from standing to their places for each pose. Im also now considering adding in moving elements to the background to create a more interesting and "interactive feeling" video.

Assignment Two

 For this assignment we were supposed to make a short video of an "animated logo." When I heard this I was very excited to start; I knew instantly that I was going to create a video "ad" showing off the fact I have a website for my ceramics! When I created my Instagram a few weeks ago I used ._. as a part of my "branding" and even have put that now on my business cards. So that is what I decided to finalize as being my "logo" and I decided to go ahead and animate that face and turn it into a clay blob that would somehow turn into a representation of a vase or some sort of ceramic product I make. I also really enjoy making my videos loop, so I decided to make that an aspect as well in this video. I am planning to show this on instagram and mostly on social media like that which is why I made it so simple and easy to read, also that was one of my reasons for wanting a loop. Im hoping that this will be shared around accounts and therefore lead people to my site to create more buyers and viewers on my site. In this project, I also really tried to pay attention to the principles of animation by creating easy eases, secondary motions when things bump into one another, squashing and stretching, and staging. I also used some sound effects to make it a tad more interesting, but also to help people understand what was going on, like the rolling of the clay ball or spinning of the wheel for example. I love the way it came out, and I think I did a great job and am proud of the final product I was able to come up with!

beginning draft of text and first few seconds 2nd Assignment

12 Principles Reading and example

I saw this commercial on tv and just had to use it for this assignment. I think the way this commercial uses its text and effects for it is so effective and you can really tell they are using the 12 principles of animation to create these fluid effects. For example, towards the end where it says bounce back, it has it bounce and also it has one word get affected by the other in a way to show them bumping into each other; which means they were using the idea of secondary motion. The way the words move seem to be using ease in and outs, as well as squash and stretch. I also think it does a good job of using exaggeration in the way the words shape changes overall to create life to the words; overall this video really shows a lot of elements of the 12 principles of animation and is a great example of a real life use of this that I have seen in my daily life.

Assignment two 3 drafts

 

Assignment One

This is my completed video piece for this first assignment in Motion Graphics. I used the De Stijl movement as my style of inspiration. I like the simpleness of geometry and what you are able to do with it. I enjoy using shapes and lines with varying levels of opacity to feel like I am creating a separate dimension within the composition. Since this is my first time using after effects I figured it would be a nice transitioning way to get to know the tools by seeing what all I can do with just individual shapes and lines. I feel like in the De Stijl paintings, you can feel the character each shape and line possess, so here in my motion graphic version of De Stijl I decided to bring that idea to live and give each shape and line a feeling of their own that we can actually see. The second half of my piece is probably my favorite, I really liked how I had the shapes behind the lines and then switched them to in front of the lines while they were rotating to their new locations on screen, and then after that the shapes scale down and disappear while the lines grow and disappear, then eventually lead the composition to a place where a loop can occur. As for my intended audience of this piece, it would have to be anyone interested in the De Stijl movement or anyone getting to know the beginning basics of after effects. Lastly just to note a few of the principles I used, they would include: squash and stretch, secondary motion, and ease in/ outs as well as other characterizations with the graph and speed.

assignment one storyboard and inspiration - De Stijl

 

3 Artists or Studios I like for Motion Graphics

 https://henriquebarone.com 

This person has a variety of types of motion graphics they make. But what caught. my eye most were the simple figures doing very eloquent motions. The way that the artist has these characters moving so swiftly I what makes this motion graphic art so good. All of the motions feel like they move to perfectly together and they do not feel bland at all.

https://buzzflick.com 

Here is my next company that I like. I enjoyed this one right away because of how interesting the website is. I like how instantly when you go on the website you encounter motion graphics worked into their site and how you use it and interact with it. This is a company that makes graphic videos for other companies, but in general they have a very nice company due to their motion graphic skills.

https://www.cubstudio.com/portfolio

I think this company does a great job at being a motion graphics video creation business for other businesses. I really like that they tailor their styles based off of the company in which they are creating the video for. All of the ones I watched seemed to have great motion and transition between scenes which make the whole thing flow so well.

My 5 Screenshots

3 motion graphics I like

This video is about informing the viewer and consumer about their healthy baby food. It goes on to tell you how they make it and what goes in it and why its so good. I think this video is successful because the little drawing overtop the real video footage makes for it to be eye catching and interesting also it really helps to show how much they go through in order to give us this quality product.

https://www.nike.com/u/custom-nike-air-max-90-by-you-shoe-10000799/9343045457#Builder 

This interface on Nike's website allows you to see all angles of the shoe and it allows you to customize all of the colors while giving you the real time updates of what it would look like. I think that in order to have this type of movement there needs to be some aspect of motion graphics within it. You are able to even press the arrows and it moves it on its own, and you can zoom and manipulate it however you'd like.

I found this video a while back when looking to stop motion, but here I am showing it again because I really think it is super successful. This video is so entertaining to me and I love how each motion is so personal depending on the fruit and what is about to happen with it. I feel like this can't just be stop motion because some of the objects are definitely manipulated so I feel like it must have been created with Motion graphics such as using a program like after effects.

Assignment 4

Assignment 4 from jazele rabbani on Vimeo.

Natural Nature

In this piece of video art, I am exploring the notion that our ideas about nature are subjective. Our experience of the “natural world” is different for everyone depending on what a particular person sees every day, but for many—like myself—the “natural” world we see isn’t natural at all: it’s the suburbs and highly constructed. 

I grew up in Sylvania, Ohio which is a suburb of Toledo, a relatively small city. When I was a child, I lived in neighborhood full of old streets and houses. Then all of a sudden, the neighborhood started to expand and take over the woods we were connected to. Without even realizing it until now, my childhood consisted of walking through a forest and seeing it get taken down tree by tree to see the “new neighborhood everyone was so excited for” get built. To this day, nature is still being torn away and destroyed. 

I have always enjoyed taking walks around my neighborhood and parks; recently while walking in my neighborhood I started thinking about the nature and trees that are still here and the ones that once were. I appreciate all the natural elements around me, and I love focusing in and actually paying attention to what I see. For this reason, my body of work highlights the commonplace nature that people ignore. In my new video, trees reclaim their land and show themselves through the houses that once took over.

Layered 10 second video

Layered video from jazele rabbani on Vimeo.

Here is my practice layered video. It is of my two favorite places in one screen.

I do not have access to premiere on a laptop so I use the iPad version and it doesn’t have a green screening effect.

Assignment three

Jazele Assignment Three from jazele rabbani on Vimeo.

Here is my project for this assignment. I wanted to go off my drawing practice and make it better. I do think I was successful in making this. But honestly I didn’t enjoy making it. I tried to make it better for myself by creating shape cut outs and moving these rather than drawing each circle because it left behind the pencil marks. I also created a room as an atmosphere so that it could have space to bounce within. Doing this on my iPad has been extremely hard also due to the fact that I don’t have access to many editing apps. I would say I think my video is good for this assignment based on my lack of resources, the amount of time this took me, and the amount of frames I created to make this work. Also my shape isn’t 1920x1080 because I was not able to do that with the editing app I was forced to use. And for the sound I decided to put kids playing outside with ambient outdoor sounds. I did this to counter the image of a ball alone inside- so I put the outside with kids and people creating sounds and playing without the ball that would be what would make sense to be getting played with.

Artist Stop Animation I Enjoyed

Nada Fruit Stop-motion commercial from Andre Maat on Vimeo.

After searching for a very long time for a stop motion that i enjoyed, i finally found this one. I felt like this stop motion was so successful in looking interesting and doing something that captures the viewer. I like the way that each fruit is treated differently based on its traits. And then depending on what the fruit did and how the hand interacted with it, it then turns into the bottle of juice that was being represented or "created" by the moves the hand did with the fruit. The background mainly stays the same with a little bit of variation in each frame; this idea of slight change is shown in this by looking like wind in the tall grass, i think this works very well. It makes it look very natural while not making too much background motion that would be distracting or not enough because it just being still would be boring and this would not be as successful. Also the sound is not distracting, it goes along well with the video and it does a successful job at making this appear as an ad but still be entertaining to watch.

5 Second Drawing animation

5 second drawing stop motion from jazele rabbani on Vimeo.

This is my drawing animation. I actually enjoyed making this one and think it came out cool. If I were to try again I would probably try and make the circle look like it gets squished when it hits the edges and bounces off. Also I don’t really like the drawing aspect because it shows all the previous marks due to my eraser not being able to completely erase them. Also I am editing on an ipad because that is all I have so that is why there are black bars and the size is odd

Cereal trail from jazele rabbani on Vimeo.

Here is my first try doing stop motion. I wanted the cereal to create a trail and turn into a spiral. Towards the end I started to get it to flow better. This was quite hard since I didn’t know how the photos would transition from one another
Also was hard because I had to use my phone with no proper tripod or any equipment, as well as having to use phone apps to create this
But overall it sort of cake out how I wanted

Assignment Two

JazeleAssignmentTwo from jazele rabbani on Vimeo.


With this project I decided tong with a theme I've been working.on lately. This is trying to point out nature in neighborhoods while exposing the fact that people have just taken over nature with little to no thought ever put in about that. People walk and drive through their own and other neighborhoods everyday, but in reality those didn't just appear. There were trees and forests, and now just houses with people inside and the nature being ignored. I used sound to differentiate the sounds of nature vs man. The left side is natural, while the right side has to do with the construction and building of the neighborhoods. I am actually very happy with the way this came out, in the beginning I was having trouble with creating sounds that related well and worked well together. I think it accurately separates one from another while showing a message lying beneath the sounds and video.