Week Seven: Outside of Class

I continue to go back and forth with my project. I am trying to add interest to my animation to move beyond basics, but conceptually the ideas aren't matching the product. So on Monday night, I finished the simple straight forward first thought design that I thought of. I had to get the simple one out of the way so I could move forward and try something different. 

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On Tuesday I reached out to some of my classmates in my typography two class for advice on a direction. Their biggest advice was to push the emotion. Push the discomfort into the viewer. So I took their advice to try and convey discomfort and also for myself to try something out of my direct comfort zone.

On a completely different personal art project, I took a small 5-inch by 5-inch canvas and a thin sharpie and just began to write. I needed to express my words, but I didn't want to be tempted to read them again or for others to read my writing either. So I wrote complete sentences, full thoughts but all on top of each other. The end result was this jumble of words that when I showed people they struggled to decipher and felt anxious and overwhelmed. I feel like this could be a direction to go from. 

So I folded a sheet of printer paper into forths and I had my roommates and some friends word dump their fears all together on this paper and I took some photos of the texture we created.

 

My new thought is to use this new texture as the background and create the design animation coming out of this jumble of words. During class tomorrow I am going to work more on this direction. 

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On Friday night I continued working on my animation. I started by following the tutorial above to add a glitch effect. The video was helpful in walking through how to add a downloadable glitch mp4 video and create an adjustment layer and distort the displacement map. 

The process worked and I liked the effect that was achieved, but I only wanted the type to be distorted not the background. I had to take some time to think through how to either move the layers or group them together. I then figured out that I can pre-compose the adjustment and type together so that only the logo was distorted. 

I then worked on separating the characters to have them switch back and forth from the mirror to the correct direction as the glitch effect happened. I made layers of the two directions of the four characters and began to lay them out so they flip throughout the animation.

At the end of the night, this is what I had completed so far.

Tomorrow I am going to work cleaning up the ending and finalize the project.

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Saturday evening I went back to work on my project. I adjusted the white type in the design to disappear while the glitch effect was happening and then I started to insert a video clip from their Youtube channel. Below is what I completed thus far. 

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After looking back at the video Sunday morning I felt that I needed to add some sound effects to the glitching part of the animation. I found 50 free downloadable glitch sound effects and chose sound number 8 and number 9 to use.  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jln945LM-gXUejEnAW9QFYeFwEBtpzHm/view

I ended the video before the logo and added the sound effects. 

The disconnect between the video and logo was not good so I added the audio back in and also removed sound number nine because it seemed too "space glitch" not "techy glitch". 

Below is the final design with the video at the beginning uploaded to Youtube.