For my final project, I will be making a goofy UFC video using adobe after effects. The idea is to faek having a last minute injury from a fighter, the challenger for the belt for UFC 310, Kai Asakura. By faking he got injured, I will try to make a realistic breaking news video in the goal of tricking my audiences. The jokes is that I will say that Dana White, UFC CEO, have found a replacement fighter for the champion Alexandre Pantoja. The replacement fight would be me in an instagram filter picture looking goofy. I will try to make it as belieable as possible in the beginning so that when the jokes comes in, everyone can have a laugh. I will posting my final video on tiktok just live my other after effects projects,, hoping mma fans will get a chance to get a laugh.
(I have a video but Ive been waiting for 40minutes to upload a 30sec video)
Overall, I enjoyed making the video and I think I followed my plan well and executed it well. Some of my classmates enoyed it as they find it goofy. In the beginning, I had plenty of ideas for aftter effects and motion graphics (trends on tiktok) but for this project, I wanted to make something more with original content and not with videos online. Which limits my imagination but I think for the project, it turned out good. I am satisfied with what I made. During the winter break, I will buy a new PC and have lots of fun with After Effects.
TouchDesigner Exercises
Exercise #1 : Stars (tutorial by Pao Olea)
Exercise #2 : Fluffy Material (tutorial by Pao Olea)
My project idea is to add a song to my "Fluffy Material" exercise to make it audio-reactive. The goal is to make the "Fluffy material" scale from normal size to a bigger size while following the music beat. I will also make it move from left to right (like bouncing) and try to make the transition as smooth as possible.
My classmates proposed the idea of maybe using a microphone to make it audio-reactive. They also suggested having the fluffy ball change color every couple of seconds. Overall, they liked my fluffy material, and they think it looks really cool.
The challenges I faced during my project include low FPS after combining the two tutorials. It was extremely slow and laggy, which demotivated me a lot. After trying to use a microphone for real voice audio reactivity, I faced difficulties figuring some things out.
End Result and Thoughts
(This is my second "End Result and Thoughts" because I accidently deleted the first. I will try to write what I wrote the first time) Overall, I realised that TouchDesigner is not for me. While the program is really interesting and have lots of potential, I do not think I have interest in working with it in the future. There is so much things to learn which kinda scared me as I always have to watch a tutorial to learn it. In addition, most of my projects are super laggy as my compueter and sometimes the school computer have trouble handling some stuff from TD. I might like it in the future, or not, but it was still a great learning experience.
Motion Graphics Project
Project Plan
The idea of my project is to make an original hopecore video. A hopecore video is a video with big text and a main speaker with videos attacheds to inspire, motivate and give hope to their viewers. I will be mainly using after effects and some small inspirationals clips from YT. My goal is to leanr as much as possible from ae because motion graphics/edits is my new passion.
I am really happy how it turned out. It was super fun while making this edit. The main feedback I received was the placement of my words because it was hard to see. There as some challenges on the way like trying to make it unique and finding videos online but after this project, I think I love making videos like this or just edits in general. This grew a new passion inside of me.
This is an animated infographic that I created with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects. I have create a fake new battlepass options for the game Rainbow six siege (Ubisoft). The objective was to promote the new battlepass. The process was not really hard but mostly time consumming. I have learned a lot on after effects and it is really fun for me because I love doing animations. What I wish I did in the begining of the project was to have more text layers on Illustrator before chaging to a svg. I would of made zoom in on the "new features", fade in, fade out,etc.. but because all the text were in the same layer, I had to do something different. I am currently working on a bigger project that I am really excited to showcase soon.
Overall, I wasn't really satisfied with my project. There was too many challenges along the way that demotivate me. I still tried my best to do the best possible of my project for the due date but it will not be on my portfolio lol. I realise after this project that TouchDesigner is not for me, but it is an incredible software with ton of potential. But Who knows, maybe in the future I might get back into it.
exercise 1.4: 3d-layer animation
exercise 1.3: track matte demo
exercise 1.2: examples of motion graphics in the wild
