Motion Across Media

Chapter 11 / Show and Tell In the last chapter of Animated Storytelling, Liz Blazer discusses a few main considerations when entering your work into festivals and releasing it to the world. Regardless of where you send it, packaging it clearly and fully is a key step. Some important pieces to include are a title…

This week marks finishing Animated Storytelling by Liz Blazer! This book has been incredibly informative as I learn the basics of animation and what steps to take when planning and executing a project. Chapter 10 talks about the final step, which is to begin animating! Here are some key highlights: Chapter 10 / Animate! Despite…

This week, I was introduced to what a logo stinger is and how to create one using Adobe Illustrator and After Effects. To help inform this week’s project, I read another chapter of Animated Storytelling by Liz Blazer and learned about the twelve principles of animation. Chapter 9 / Technique Blazer explains that selecting the…

This week, I continued learning about stop motion animation by following through with one of last week’s proposed ideas. I amped up the production value just a bit and used a Canon camera to capture each shot instead of my iPhone. My medium of choice remained as Play-Doh; not a lot of graduate students get…

This week, I have learned what kind of work it takes to produce stop-motion animation. Despite seeing countless movies and videos using the technique, I never fully appreciated the work it takes until now. Yeah, I know it’s a bunch of pictures put together to move fast… but the amount of patience it takes is…

As I complete another week of learning about motion design, I tackled three more chapters in Liz Blazer’s Animated Storytelling. Here are my key takeaways: Storytelling With animation, storytelling has no limits. And because of that, “the great challenge is more about disciplining yourself to reel it in and be intentional” about it. To begin…

Motion design is a discipline I’ve barely stepped into — that is, if you count the one-minute music video I put together years ago a solid step. I predominantly work with print material, but being able to offer a wider range of services to my clients is a major goal of mine. A big step…