Digital Photography & Imaging: Project 4 - Self Titled (WEEK 10 - WEEK 14)
28/11/2023 - 26/12/2023 (Week 10 - Week 14)
Aisya Diva Anwagodsa (0365505)
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 4: Self Titled
JUMPLINK
LECTURE
WEEK 10
Intro After Effects
After Effects is a software we used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture composition. It has hundreds of effects that can be used to manipulate imaginary.
Ways to make animation using After Effects, one of them we can use Photoshop and then import it into After Effects, then we can start editing the effects.
INSTRUCTION
EXERCISE
Instruction: Animate the composition provided in Google Classroom in Adobe After Effects
- Composition settings: 1080 x 1920
- Duration: 15 seconds
- Render output: .MOV/.MP4
- Upload the final outcome on youtube
Doing this exercise, I've watched tutorial from Mr. Fauzi. I realized that after effects was very difficult and complicated.
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| Fig. 1.1 After Effects Exercise (7/12/2023) |
Fig. 1.2 After Effects Exercise Result
(7/12/2023)
SELF TITLED
Self Titled is a final project from 3 different modules:
- Typography
- Illustration & Visual Narrative
- Digital Photography & Imaging
In this project, we will bring together our knowledge and skills we have learned from semester 1. The goal is to create an integrated poster that showcase our abilities in these 3 modules. We will use our costume font that we have created with eleven letters (o, l, e, d, s, n, c, h, t, i, g), incorporate self portrait, and weave related motive.
- Biography
1. Tell us about yourself!
My name is Aisya Diva Anwagodsa, I am 18 years old. I’m a girl who really likes watching movies. I like to stay at home and spend my time with my friends and family.
My name is Aisya Diva Anwagodsa, I am 18 years old. I’m a girl who really likes watching movies. I like to stay at home and spend my time with my friends and family.
2. What is your passion?
I love to capture every moment in life with my art, I also love to help others expressing their feelings through my drawings and designs. That is why I am taking bachelor in Creative Media, to pursue my dreams of become a good designer that could help people to express their feelings through arts and design.
3. What motivates you to achieve your dreams?
I want to proof that I can be more than I am now, especially to myself. And I want to show to the world, that we can express our feelings with anything including arts. For me there is art in every aspect in this world.
4. How do you want to visualize your dream into an artwork?
I want it to be a little bit weird, cheerful, and melancholic. But when we see it from distance we can see a whole beauty in it. Like our life, never always be happy, but never always be sad, and a hint of weirdness.
- Artist Statement
1. Tell us about your work!
My work represent myself, my emotions and interest I have felt lately as a student.
2. What is the concept behind it?
I want to show that sometimes, we can feel the excitement towards something that we really want to get, but other than that we can feel sad or just do not know what to do about it and hoping that we can stay in our dream forever, but the truth is, we have to wake up and face the reality. The thing is, just live your life and keep going.
3. What is the message you want to send?
Whatever you going through just keep going, and be happy. Because happiness is our choice.
4. What us your motto/quote?
Anything mentionable is manageable
(My favorite words from Mr. Roger)
RESEARCH
For this task, I'd like to bring a combination of illustration photography and typography photography. Here are my references.
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| Fig. 2.1 References (21/12/2023) |
SKETCH
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| Fig. 2.2 Sketch (21/12/2023) |
In this sketch, I tried to visualize my poster by drawing it using pencil on my drawing book. During the editing process, my design is developing but still in the same nuance with the sketch I did.
EDITING
- Photos
Before editing, I should take a picture of me. During the process, I have taken some photos and took four to be edited.
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| Fig. 2.3 Photos (26/12/2023) |
- The first picture shows the struggle I face during my study.
- The second picture express my excitement while learning something new.
- Third picture represent how I got tired from doing my assignments, but I also want to represent this as my dedication in doing my works, that this is my dream, dreaming doing my passion and doing all of these (picture 1, 2, 4) to achieve it.
- Fourth picture shows my curiosity.
- Adobe Illustration & Photoshop
In this task, I used Adobe Illustration for illustrating my work and adobe photo shop for assembling also editing the photos I used in this project.
Here are some information according to the assignment:
Size: 1080 (width) x 1920 (height) px (IG reeel/story size)
Output: .MOV/.MP4
Duration: 15 seconds
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| Fig. 2.4 Creating the illustration (26/12/2023) |
The tools I used in Adobe Illustration:
- Pen tool: for creating the illustrations.
- Draw inside mode: for adding shadows and creating element inside the shape.
- Brush tool: for adding details on the checker floor illustration.
- Selection tool: for adjusting the anchor so I can get a shape that I want.
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| Fig. 2.5 Progress in Adobe Photoshop (26/12/2023) |
- Remove background: for removing the background.
- Layer mask + Clipping mask: for removing the background and only editing a certain layer (clipping mask).
- Pattern + Screen: for adding texture.
- Brush: for adding shadows.
- Gaussian blur filter: for refine the shadows.
- Texture > halftone: to create halftone effect on my font.
- Polygon tool: to selecting area that I want to keep.
In this project I am using some free elements:
- After Effects
The self titled itself should be animated, In this matter I have to use Adobe After Effects to edit the self titled.
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| Fig. 2.6 Animating in After Effects (1/1/2024) |
- First, I uploaded the photoshop file into after effects and adjusting the time frames by clicking (ctrl + k)
- Then I made new window to creating the moving background. In here I used the dust texture from the poster.
- To create the moving background, I set the time frame for 8 seconds, and then put the texture and crop the timeline for 2 frame and duplicate it, until reach the maximum frame.
- For creating the different motives, I rotate each frame.
- After done creating the background, I moved the background layer into the self titled file.
- Because the moving background only last for 8 second, I used time stretch so it could fit the whole video.
- Adjust the layer with the screen mode and curve to create a moving texture effects.
- After done with adjusting, render the video.
Here is the detailed tutorial I watched on youtube:
FINAL RESULT
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| Fig. 3.1 Self Titled JPEG (1/1/2024) |
Fig. 3.2 Self Titled Animation
(1/1/2024)
LINKS:
REFLECTION
Experience:
Learning photography was exciting, but learning After Effects was a whole new experience for me. I can say that, After Effects was the hardest and confusing software I used in my whole life. It needs patient and more patient for me to learn how to make the simplest effect. After all, I am glad that I already take my first step learning after effects.
Observation:
As I work with after effects, I learned that, this app has a lot of function and amazing features. Since I have never animating something before, this app made me discover some new trick and animation (that i need to learn more). Also, because of this app makes us put a lot of layers in the timeline, we have to make sure that we named each file that we want to use properly, so we are not getting confuse with the layers.
Findings:
Overall, in this task, time management is everything. Because learning something new needs time, because we need to adapt, improving, and fixing our works.
QUICK LINKS
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