Animation

Looping Background Animated Gif in Adobe After Effects

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I wanted to experiment with ambient logo backgrounds in Adobe After Effects, so I turned to my good old friend YouTube for answers.  I found this tutorial by swissives

This tutorial was great example of using the camera and it’s depth of field feature.  After completing the tutorial I swapped out the crosses for my logo.  I then exported the image as an animated gif in Adobe Media Encoder, here’s the final animation.

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Looping-Dynamic-Logo-Background-Uncle-Skuby-Evan-Munoz-2020

Typography Motion Graphics Animation in After Effects

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As I was examining my Graphic Design Portfolio website, I had determined that I needed something on my home page that showcased my Motion Graphics skills.  I had done a bit of searching and found a couple artists on Behanced that had nice Typography Animated Gifs that I was inspired by.

Below are images that I aspire to replicate to add that extra motion I needed on my website:

Mat Voyce - Animated Gif - Amazon
Mat Voyce – Animated Gif – Amazon

 

Andrei Robu - Moving Poster Series - Animated Gif
Andrei Robu – Moving Poster Series – Animated Gif

To begin learning this Typography Animation technique I found a tutorial on YouTube by a Motion Graphics artist that goes by the name of Dope Motions.  This was a perfect project to experiment with After Effects and 3D text elements.

Finally here was interpretation of an Animated Gif with Typography.  I will continue to experiment with this form of Motion Graphics, what I would like to try is create a highly polished Adobe Illustrator text element and then bring it into Adobe After Effects to add the extra motions desired for an even deeper distortion effect.

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Multi-Eyed Mutant Chicken

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So as I had a little time to myself this March, I decided to take one of my drawings and turn it into an animation. But! I took it a step further. Due to my lack of Adobe After Effects on my computer, I tried to use an OLD version of Adobe Flash CS5 to create this animation… God I need a copy of After Effects 😦

I sketched out this guy bored one day on this private beach on Long Island:

Then I digitally painted this on my Wacom Intuos Pro tablet in Autodesk’s SketchBook Express:

Last I created some clouds in Affinity Designer and animated this guy in Adobe Flash, I think I messed up in rendering somewhere – might need to look that up, but it came out okay for my testing:

MTV’s “Group Hug” | By Sehsucht Design Agency

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I don’t watch much T.V., but I saw this for MTV and I thought it was the cutest most well designed happy thing I have ever seen in my entire life!  Although only 20 seconds of this beautifully illustrated world, artists at Sehsucht Design Agency in Germany have you begging for more!  A grey woodland field is illuminated by neon creatures! check out the video.

MTV \”Group Hug\” on Vimeo

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