Week 4 was soooo much fun. I just played around with all the layers and got to work in the photoshop timeline.
This is where I realized there was so much more to motion graphics - Timing was everything. We were shown some wonderful examples in class - I love the subtle ones where there is a rhythm and a pause. I wanted to try making a more subtle gif. I already have so many ideas.
I took the body and eyes
hmm that face
sideways eyes
My beach picture
my cloud picture
Sooo many ideas - even when I'm doing yoga I am thinking of gifs - my mind won't stay still now - I wanted to show this somehow...I had an idea for a busy head and a calm body - but I also wanted to explore the simplicity of just the yes - it works better.
Head in the clouds - The timing is far too fast - I need to explore the pause.
using my paintings as thinking images
More collage fun
I did see this very funny 3D video a while ago so I wanted to try and recreate it in a static moving stop motion style. My son was my lucky model. It is titled Hot air :) As you can see these are quick and rough and I really want to ask questions this week around tweens and timing as I can't get them to work well for me. It was extremely rough but I managed to really crudely create a morphing body.
I also had a go at some more simple staggered animations - I wanted a stop motion and it looked better slower than faster with some very deliberate stops. This was inspired by the millions of times I hear this word on the radio -in my podcasts.....from my clients. So many people in NSW stuck in lockdown - I had to try and create some fun in it for them.
One final area I needed to explore was tweens - I thought they might help with transition effects. I intended toe exploit them and many many iterations were done of this particular rough experimentation. Ignore the sand-covered person in the background - Had this worked more effectively I may have bothered to fix this but instead I looked into timings and changes in the number of tweens from 1 to 3, changes in the frame times from 0 to 0.5 and everything in between was explored. Exporting became my biggest problem and after many searches on the adobe forums, I realised I was not the only one and it is a problem with the latest update of Big Sur and write permissions. In any case - I believe my intended outcome would be more achievable in aftereffects ... now I just have to learn it :)
