Hi! Hello and welcome to my first blog post!!! (:

Hi! My Visual Mashup is comprised of some drawings (graphite, colored pencils, markers), paper cut outs (from our intro design class), various photos and Adobe After Effects was utilized to put them all together. 

I wanted to start off with a pencil drawing of toddler me, as that was the first medium that got me interested in art and transitioned into the actual reference photo–as I used that same photo in my presentation about myself in our Illustrator class. I wanted to keep the theme of my kid self because I had no idea I would end up here today. I took snippets of my colored pencil drawings and the thought bubble reminded me of our Intro Design class where we drew icons. My icon was a cloud like shape; I used the leftover paper cut outs to transition into our first project we created for our stable and dynamic pieces. I especially wanted to include the dynamic piece (with the blue text that says “wait up!!”) because that is exactly how I feel going into the program and currently. There’s a vast amount of knowledge I have yet to learn and it’s a lifelong journey into the design field. There will be times when I feel like an imposter and having doubts, but those moments are fleeting and I hope to learn, grow and develop in these next 2 years! Lastly, I used Adobe After Effects (which I am currently learning) to piece everything together and attempted to make transitions!

I definitely had many setbacks and there are things I wish I did differently/wish I had more time to develop my ideas. If we were given more than a week, I would have liked to incorporate other mediums–such as paints like watercolors and possibly go into more digital drawing. Also, I noticed after uploading my video that my animations could have been smoother and more elevated–which in part might be related to the following problem. I had many issues with exporting my file from After Effects. My 2015, 128 GB Macbook decided it wanted to give up on me and did not want to even try exporting my animation whatsoever. My only solution to that, was to take a screen recording of After Effects and to upload that. The problem with that–the file size was too overwhelming for my Mac and even playing it on AE caused every snippet to have lag time in between (which you will notice the choppiness in the video-feel free to speed it up to x1.5 if needed, it was initially only supposed to be a 20 second video). Lastly, I finally got a video but the file size was too big to post on this blog so I uploaded it on Youtube and hoped the quality isn’t too bad after having to jump many hurdles to present this short!

If you made it this far, thank you for your patience and you’ll see me next blog post! 

Re-uploaded version! Finally got it to render and the keyframes are smoother since it’s not a screen recording of After Effects!