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Showing posts with label after effects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label after effects. Show all posts
Friday, March 15, 2013
Show-Me a Valuable Infographic
Early this year I was tasked with creating a motion infographic for the University of Missouri System that the President could use to share statistics outlining the value of UM in the state. I was frantic getting this project finished and I'm so glad that it's been released for the world to see:
Monday, February 25, 2013
Motion graphics meets alcohol and substance misuse
How much do you know about alcohol and substance misuse and it's affect on society? Maybe it's one of those "out of sight, out of mind" things for you. It certainly was for me until I was given an opportunity to create a video that explains to health care professionals why they should care and what they can do about alcohol and substance misuse in their patients. Before you click away from this thinking "I'm not a health care professional, that's not for me," let me just tell you that it impacts you... even if not directly.
Someday, I'd like to see this become a PSA, but while I'm dreaming that vision away, here's the video I created that is now the first part of a training series:
ADEPT: an introduction from Academic Support Center on Vimeo.
An introduction to why health care providers should care about alcohol and substance misuse in their practice. The ADEPT training teaches health care providers what they can do about alcohol and substance misuse. MU-ADEPT (Alcohol and Drug Education for Prevention and Treatment) is funded by a grant from SAMHSA and utilizes SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment).
This is a perfect example of the kind of project I've been waiting for and why I wanted to work for an educational institution. The creators of this training series needed a way to convince their audience that this training is important. They were passionate about the information but it just wasn't coming across in their peruse-on-your-own powerpoint presentations. The hope is that this video is both educational and engaging.
For screen shots and more information about the creation of this video, visit the project on my behance portfolio.
Someday, I'd like to see this become a PSA, but while I'm dreaming that vision away, here's the video I created that is now the first part of a training series:
ADEPT: an introduction from Academic Support Center on Vimeo.
An introduction to why health care providers should care about alcohol and substance misuse in their practice. The ADEPT training teaches health care providers what they can do about alcohol and substance misuse. MU-ADEPT (Alcohol and Drug Education for Prevention and Treatment) is funded by a grant from SAMHSA and utilizes SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment).
This is a perfect example of the kind of project I've been waiting for and why I wanted to work for an educational institution. The creators of this training series needed a way to convince their audience that this training is important. They were passionate about the information but it just wasn't coming across in their peruse-on-your-own powerpoint presentations. The hope is that this video is both educational and engaging.
For screen shots and more information about the creation of this video, visit the project on my behance portfolio.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Plant Sciences and Campus Dining
What do Plant Sciences and Campus Dining have in common??
Answer: They had videos produced by us that were finished and mastered on the same day. Oh, and they both relate to food, but that's not really the answer I was going for. Other than the fact that they were finished on the same day, Plant Sciences was a year-long project which was mostly finished about a month ago, whereas I started the graphics and edit for the video for the NACUFS conference less than two weeks before I finished it.
The "NACUFS 2013 Conference Preview" video was shown last weekend at the latest conference. Each year the participants watch a video preview of the next conference. Rather than bore the participants with a traditional video, the idea was to entice them with this short "music video". I did not design the logos or the "tomato bomb box" featured at the end of the video, but I did make them move. For more info and stills, visit the project on my behance portfolio.
For "The Division of Plant Sciences" video, I made the graphics, made adjustments to the video backgrounds of the graphics, and even shot a few clips of the video.
For more examples of the work we've done at the University of Missouri, visit the MizzouVideo YouTube site.
Answer: They had videos produced by us that were finished and mastered on the same day. Oh, and they both relate to food, but that's not really the answer I was going for. Other than the fact that they were finished on the same day, Plant Sciences was a year-long project which was mostly finished about a month ago, whereas I started the graphics and edit for the video for the NACUFS conference less than two weeks before I finished it.
The "NACUFS 2013 Conference Preview" video was shown last weekend at the latest conference. Each year the participants watch a video preview of the next conference. Rather than bore the participants with a traditional video, the idea was to entice them with this short "music video". I did not design the logos or the "tomato bomb box" featured at the end of the video, but I did make them move. For more info and stills, visit the project on my behance portfolio.
For "The Division of Plant Sciences" video, I made the graphics, made adjustments to the video backgrounds of the graphics, and even shot a few clips of the video.
For more examples of the work we've done at the University of Missouri, visit the MizzouVideo YouTube site.
Friday, February 17, 2012
The CAFNR Edge Opening Process Part 2
This is a continuation of my previous post on how I created the CAFNR Edge Opening. Picking up where we left off, in Photoshop.
8. Now, with all my layers in one single image, it tends to bog down After Effects to work with so much information at one time, so I decided to break it up into sections. I saved an image with everything. Then I began deleting layers, so that I had all of the layers for Biochemistry together and then saved that as a new file. Back in my previous file with all the layers, I deleted down to having only Agriculture degrees together and saved that as a new file. I did this until I had it broken into manageable portions (click on image to view larger):
9. Next, in After Effects, I imported my first segment, Biochemistry, as a Composition. (I did this one a little differently than the rest since it moves independently first and then when the whole image pans, it scales back and moves with the rest. So, I created the circle and insides as a document, and I also have a document with that and the expansion lines/coloring that matches the scale of the whole image.)
10. One of Andrew Kramer's AE tutorials shows how to do this next technique, where I used the Write-on Effect to make each part of the drawing appear. On the first layer to appear, I drew a mask:
Then, I applied the Write-on Effect:
And copied the mask path into the brush position. It automatically applies keyframes as roving keys for each of the points on the curve, so I can move the beginning and ending keys and all the middle ones move to adjust. Then I increased the brush size, changed the hardness, and brush spacing so that it draws on very smoothly. Lastly, I set the paint style to "reveal original image". (Note: at this point, if outer edges are still not covering and I can't or don't want to increase the brush size, I would make adjustments to the mask path. Those adjustments do not automatically change in the Write-on effect, you have to copy the path and paste it in the brush position again.)
11. Next, I adjusted where the write-on begins and ends in the timeline, and began adding a mask and write-on effect to all the other layers, off-setting their start so that they don't all draw on at the same time.
I set the text (made in Illustrator) so that it matched up with the molecule elements. I also duplicated that layer, erased all letters except "CAFNR" and put spaces between so that I could take the opacity of the first layer from 100 to 0%. With all the layers of this comp finished animating, it was time to have the Biochem comp animate in the full-image comp. Because the beginning would eventually animate on via the write-on effect, keyed to match with the narrator's hand movement, it was left for later. However, the transition from Biochem to the whole image required a scale and position change, done with keyframes.
I also parented the Biochem comp to the sketch and offset the beginning movement of the sketch so that it would begin as Biochem shrinks back into the image. The expansion lines and coloring were added as another comp and also parented. Since they did not require animation, I simply lined the comp up with the sketch and made that position/scale the settings I applied to all other imported comps/PSD files. (When you import a photoshop file with layers and tell it to import as a comp instead of as footage, it appears and acts like a comp in AE, simplifying the process of importing and re-aligning each individual layer.)
12. Next, I imported the Agriculture PSD file as a comp with editable layers.
I began steps 10-11, drawing masks, applying the write-on effect, and off-setting each layer to make the drawing "paint" itself on over time. The comp was parented just like the previous, and adjusted in the main timeline, to match the music.
13. Repeat steps 10-11 for all the rest of the psd/comps.
The background comp required making a pre-comp mask for the write-on effect to appear large enough.
(This was only for the first section where the background writes-on, but the rest of it is just visible since it has already appeared.)
14. Now that everything appears via the "write-on" effect, and exists in neat little "pre-comp" sections, they all get parented to a single layer. I animated the position of that layer over time and set all in-between keyframes to "rove across time". Then, I used a comp with simplified layers (flattened in photoshop, not including the "biochem" part since it distorts too much), and dropped in my polarized image to the scene. I warped the non-polarized flattened image using the "Mesh Warp" effect over time until I had half of the little planet. Using a dissolve between the now-warped panorama and the polarized image, I made sure my animation matched between the two and what's left is the polarized image, or "CAFNR little planet". Here's an image of the mesh warp:
8. Now, with all my layers in one single image, it tends to bog down After Effects to work with so much information at one time, so I decided to break it up into sections. I saved an image with everything. Then I began deleting layers, so that I had all of the layers for Biochemistry together and then saved that as a new file. Back in my previous file with all the layers, I deleted down to having only Agriculture degrees together and saved that as a new file. I did this until I had it broken into manageable portions (click on image to view larger):
9. Next, in After Effects, I imported my first segment, Biochemistry, as a Composition. (I did this one a little differently than the rest since it moves independently first and then when the whole image pans, it scales back and moves with the rest. So, I created the circle and insides as a document, and I also have a document with that and the expansion lines/coloring that matches the scale of the whole image.)
10. One of Andrew Kramer's AE tutorials shows how to do this next technique, where I used the Write-on Effect to make each part of the drawing appear. On the first layer to appear, I drew a mask:
Then, I applied the Write-on Effect:
And copied the mask path into the brush position. It automatically applies keyframes as roving keys for each of the points on the curve, so I can move the beginning and ending keys and all the middle ones move to adjust. Then I increased the brush size, changed the hardness, and brush spacing so that it draws on very smoothly. Lastly, I set the paint style to "reveal original image". (Note: at this point, if outer edges are still not covering and I can't or don't want to increase the brush size, I would make adjustments to the mask path. Those adjustments do not automatically change in the Write-on effect, you have to copy the path and paste it in the brush position again.)
11. Next, I adjusted where the write-on begins and ends in the timeline, and began adding a mask and write-on effect to all the other layers, off-setting their start so that they don't all draw on at the same time.
I set the text (made in Illustrator) so that it matched up with the molecule elements. I also duplicated that layer, erased all letters except "CAFNR" and put spaces between so that I could take the opacity of the first layer from 100 to 0%. With all the layers of this comp finished animating, it was time to have the Biochem comp animate in the full-image comp. Because the beginning would eventually animate on via the write-on effect, keyed to match with the narrator's hand movement, it was left for later. However, the transition from Biochem to the whole image required a scale and position change, done with keyframes.
I also parented the Biochem comp to the sketch and offset the beginning movement of the sketch so that it would begin as Biochem shrinks back into the image. The expansion lines and coloring were added as another comp and also parented. Since they did not require animation, I simply lined the comp up with the sketch and made that position/scale the settings I applied to all other imported comps/PSD files. (When you import a photoshop file with layers and tell it to import as a comp instead of as footage, it appears and acts like a comp in AE, simplifying the process of importing and re-aligning each individual layer.)
12. Next, I imported the Agriculture PSD file as a comp with editable layers.
I began steps 10-11, drawing masks, applying the write-on effect, and off-setting each layer to make the drawing "paint" itself on over time. The comp was parented just like the previous, and adjusted in the main timeline, to match the music.
13. Repeat steps 10-11 for all the rest of the psd/comps.
The background comp required making a pre-comp mask for the write-on effect to appear large enough.
(This was only for the first section where the background writes-on, but the rest of it is just visible since it has already appeared.)
14. Now that everything appears via the "write-on" effect, and exists in neat little "pre-comp" sections, they all get parented to a single layer. I animated the position of that layer over time and set all in-between keyframes to "rove across time". Then, I used a comp with simplified layers (flattened in photoshop, not including the "biochem" part since it distorts too much), and dropped in my polarized image to the scene. I warped the non-polarized flattened image using the "Mesh Warp" effect over time until I had half of the little planet. Using a dissolve between the now-warped panorama and the polarized image, I made sure my animation matched between the two and what's left is the polarized image, or "CAFNR little planet". Here's an image of the mesh warp:
Thursday, June 16, 2011
The CAFNR Edge Opening
For many months at work, I've been working on establishing a working idea and creating an opening for a promotional video for one of the college's on the MU campus. The first time I blogged about this project was December 2010 and the last time I blogged on this project was in March 2011, when I finally started to get knee-deep into creating my opening graphic. These are the final illustrations that I drew in Photoshop and animated in AfterEffects:
And the opening (before the title was changed to "The CAFNR Edge: Find Your Connection") can be viewed on Vimeo:
MU CAFNR Edge title graphics from Katrina Kouba on Vimeo.
All images copyright Katrina Kouba Boles
MU CAFNR Edge title graphics from Katrina Kouba on Vimeo.
All images copyright Katrina Kouba Boles
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Spiritual Design
After finding out about a contemporary miracle - that of Melanie Pritchard, wife of a friend of my brother's, who came back from the dead less than a month ago - I am finding myself interested in the spiritual stories of women. And it couldn't be better timing. John Henry Cardinal Newman will be beatified next month and to give the people of my church a message from the Cardinal, I've been commissioned to design an inspiring postcard. Below are some simple designs I did today and will present tomorrow:
The quotes, if you can't read them are:
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
"Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty."
"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: 'Go down again - I dwell among the people.'"
"Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to heaven."
Among other pretty things, here is a lovely video made entirely in AfterEffects:
Futurist from Tony Legolas on Vimeo.
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
"Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty."
"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: 'Go down again - I dwell among the people.'"
"Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to heaven."
Among other pretty things, here is a lovely video made entirely in AfterEffects:
Futurist from Tony Legolas on Vimeo.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Be careful what you wish for
So I keep thinking I need to brush up on my skills in Dreamweaver and Flash, creating interactive websites. Well, I guess I'm getting a reason to do this at work - at least with Flash. Last week we were on location shooting an educational video which will later be made into an interactive Flash presentation. Someone else had the vision for this and was supposed to do the work in Flash. Today that all changed. I was asked if we have the ability to do this. Of course my answer was 'yes, we have the capability, but I'm a bit rusty in working with that program'. So, I go off to do some tests and make a template to show the client and immediately ran into roadblocks. Yikes, it has been way too long since I worked in Flash. And I never did learn how to put video into a Flash file, I always did my own animations using images from Photoshop, Illustrator, and ones I'd made directly in Flash. Oh boy.
So I went looking for some quick tutorials and, with a bit of help and some trial and error, I got my videos into my Flash file. So now I'm stuck. I can't remember how to make it interactive and I am searching once again for some tutorials. Well I came across one that is for CS3 and integrates After Effects and Flash. While the exact use of the demo may not be relevant, it seems packed with great information about both programs. I can't embed the video since it's an Adobe Acrobat (Share) presentation and 40 minutes long, but I can include the links and how I got here:
Mcoleman's Adobe Blog
"Creating Interactive Video with After Effects and Flash"
Here's an image of how I'm feeling about it:
So I went looking for some quick tutorials and, with a bit of help and some trial and error, I got my videos into my Flash file. So now I'm stuck. I can't remember how to make it interactive and I am searching once again for some tutorials. Well I came across one that is for CS3 and integrates After Effects and Flash. While the exact use of the demo may not be relevant, it seems packed with great information about both programs. I can't embed the video since it's an Adobe Acrobat (Share) presentation and 40 minutes long, but I can include the links and how I got here:
Mcoleman's Adobe Blog
"Creating Interactive Video with After Effects and Flash"
Here's an image of how I'm feeling about it:
"Precarious" in WestEast Magazine by Brian Edwards
copyright Brian Edwards Photography, Inc. 2009
On the bright side, today is the first day I haven't turned on the TV or listened to TV online in so long that I can't really remember the last time I "killed my TV". That's progress, right?!
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