The final project!

And here’s the final project – a reimagined opening and closing animated sequence to the American rom-com-drama TV series Sex and the City created by Darren Star for HBO, adapted from Candace Bushell’s 1997 book of the same name. I utilised a 4:3 (or 1.33:1) aspect ratio to match the original dimensions of the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jhd4GkRY3g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PQHXUzeRc4 Project …

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Major project development

We’re in the thick of it now, with some major changes and adjustments along the way. As noted in the previous post, I dove into the research and ideation stages of the design process and began to converge my thinking in the first stage of the double diamond design model. I found that I preferred …

Task 2 Pitch

Our next and final major project is officially underway, with a choice of various kinds of motion design applications. I’ve chosen to tackle the opening and closing credits of the film Ratatouille. The form of my project will be two 2-3 minute animated sequences set to music used in the film. In terms of graphic …

Task 1 Complete!

And here it is. My final motion design for our first assignment in VCD302 Motion Design (unfortunately cut a little bit short during the GIF-making process). While I certainly didn’t achieve everything I had hoped to create for the final design, I still believe it shows a good level of technical proficiency in using Adobe …

Working on Task 1

After getting familiar with some fundamentals of motion design, it’s time to dive into it the best way possible – doing some actual motion design. While studying the theory and history of how things move on screens is a potentially endless rabbit hole (something I wouldn’t mind falling into), learning to create motion design from …

Motion design in animated opening sequences

As a horror genre aficionado and now motion-design student, I can’t think of a better way to dive into the fundamentals of motion design than studying the animated opening sequences of Night of the Demons (1988) and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018). The influences of the former are clearly seen in the latter through the …