GRD224 - Module Journal

After completing the stages, I use Adobe Premiere Pro as the final step of the project.

Unlike After Effects, which specializes in digital effects and motion graphics, Premiere has the main function of professional video editing and editing. More specifically, with this software you can:

- Processing and editing video, image, typographic files.

- Arrange, trim the original video file (output from camcorder) into a complete video.

- Add effects, filters, effects in video

- Make Subtitle (subtitle) - Intro at the beginning of the movie - Credit at the end of the movie - Insert logo and image.

- Processing audio directly on Adobe Premiere software

- Export videos in a variety of formats, including videotape recordings, DVDs, and popular Internet video formats.

Do an interview, make a short film, edit a news story, produce a music video, vlog, or any other type of video – I think Premiere is the best program for these.

What I feel Premiere is really different about:

Premiere is a video editing software that possesses a lot of advantages with outstanding and powerful features. Supports video production with high resolution up to 10,240 × 8,192, up to 32-bits per color point, in both RGB and YUV. Audio editing, support for VST audio and pre-mixed 5.1 audio and helped me a lot in integrating my recordings for mine.

Premiere can be compatible with many different operating systems in all versions of Mac OS. Since I use this operating system, it, therefore, supports a wide range of video and audio file formats.

Not only that, Premiere has the ability to integrate with much different software such as After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Story, OnLocation, and Prelude, facilitating the movie production process.

The character I used has front and back parts to suit the project, although it wasn't quite what I expected it to be, it almost did what I needed in the script I used.

My inspiration is largely derived from the work of "Dennis Haupt" I got to know him through Youtube

This is his product when he also created a product about himself. But unlike him I did when I told about my day.

Products of Dennis Haupt :

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkfnNZGkKmk&list=LL&index=3&ab_channel=DennisHaupt

This is probably my favorite stage because I have edited and added Vietnamese features such as: "Bitexco building", "Ong pagoda", "Xich Lo" (a fairly popular vehicle in the past) of Vietnam ) , .....

While working, I have drawn 8 "golden" principles when making animations with Adobe After Effects

1. Squash & Stretch

Squash and stretch are often used to show impact power or momentum in a movement. Stretch shows the velocity or acceleration of the moving character. Note, when changing the shape of the character you should not change its volume.

2. Follow Through and Overlapping Action

When making animations with Adobe After Effect, you need to pay attention to Follow Through and Overlapping Action. The rest of the body will be changed if one part moves. At that time, the main part will move first, the remaining parts will move after. When one part stops moving, the other parts will not stop immediately, but keep moving for a while and then stop completely.

3. Straight Ahead Action & Pose to Pose

Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose are two methods performed in one shot. Straight Ahead Action is executed from scene to scene. Pose to Pose does the lock position first and then completes the middle frame.

4. Ease In and Ease Out

When making animations with Adobe After Effects, you need to pay attention to the Ease In and Ease Out principle. For example, when you want a rolling ball or a car to stop, you have to slow it down and then stop it.

5. Principle of Staging

Staging makes the audience pay attention to the character's happenings and actions. Attention should be paid to camera position, selection and placement of colors, light & shadow, camera position accordingly.

6. Appeal

When creating cartoons with Adobe After Effects, the character created does not have to be beautiful to be attractive. The important thing is to make the viewer feel the character is real, personal and interesting.

7. Arc . Principle

Curve Move (Arc) needs to be applied when making animation. Almost all movements of animals or people follow a curve. Because animal and human bones have a spherical structure around the joints, they cannot move in a straight line.

8. Anticipation

Working with motion graphics is really fun , thanks to that I can learn many sources of information and can use many free resources .

One of them is Freepik.com and it wouldn't be unusual for a graphic designer to not know this site. I can use many pre-designed character designs to fit each scene in the script.

Source I used:

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=animation%20kitchen

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=animation%20guy

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=animation%20city

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=animation%20work%20room

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=food&type=vector

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=vehicles&type=vector

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=laptop&type=vector

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=workout&type=vector

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=bedroom&type=vector

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=clock&type=vector

- https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&query=cloud&type=vector

Also I use a clip from watching a NetFlix movie that I have attached in the .

This is the telescope that I designed for the project

- Brush Tool

One of my favorite Photoshop features is the ability to treat an image as if it were a work of art. Using the Brush Tool is roughly equivalent to using a brush but it works on digital backgrounds. One of its main advantages over the "real" is its ability to change shape, diameter, and hardness and transparency almost instantaneously.

- Layer Mask tool

Layer Mask The Layer Mask allows you to overlay multiple effects, images, and adjustments on top of the original background layer. Layer mask is a MASK that helps cover your layer. There are many types of masks with different thickness and thickness. On the Layer mask canvas, only two colors are displayed, white and black. The darker the black level, the higher the coverage of the layer mask, which means that the layer will appear lighter.

These are the moon shapes that I used the two tools above.

This is the magnifying glass design for my team's project 1, I used the brush color to highlight and outline the magnifying glass.