For this blog assignment, I wanted to reflect my feeling of excitement for my first few weeks of being in the program. My experience has overall been really enjoyable which makes sense. I always had fun in class if it was a subject I’m interested in, and I came here to learn and get better so aside from some first week jitters and being in a new environment, I’ve really enjoyed my time here so far.
To reflect my excitement, I wanted to do something a little outside my normal comfort zone. In my virtual media module, we worked with EyeJack last week and I wanted to do something like that again, but instead of doing an 8-bit Photoshop animation I decided to use After Effects for the first time. It took some trial and error but I ended up animating about a 26 second clip of the word excitement and a ball bouncing around the screen, changing colors and orientation to the song Car 24 by the Seatbelts. That song always seemed endlessly positive to me, and the bright colors shown in the animation were just meant to represent how happy I am to be here and taking this chance on my future. I did a bit of typography and a procreate drawing for the EyeJack thumbnail image to round out the project. All in all, I probably made it harder on myself then I needed to by using some new programs but it was a fun project and I enjoyed the result and trying something new.
The project itself was made using After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Procreate and EyeJack, involving a photo, digital drawing, animation, and an mp4 file. If you don’t have EyeJack or can’t get the file to play for whatever reason, I can slack you a zip file at your request!
Attached below is the EyeJack link
https://launch.eyejackapp.com/Artwork-30cea190-fbef-4fe3-ab8f-bc53b696ac02