Summing up COVID 19 in Motion Graphics

Animation Summing up 2020 & COVID 19 

For this piece of motion graphics, you'll find what you see is what you get with the title for this entry... this footage is for an animation summing up 2020 with the journey through COVID 19 and the Lockdown we encountered.  

The inspiration for this animation was on COVID 19, 2020 and on the Time Line research I did for this project. I'd say the target audience for this piece is suited for anyone who had witnessed and lived this pandemic but I would say because there are a couple of swear jar words in this animation I can't say this one is aimed for children, I'd say more teens and up but seeing as you get kids playing GTA these days... who knows- they may like it. 

This was a mini animation I wanted to create to experiment and demonstrate my skill progression. The programmes I have used for these animations are Adobe Animate and Premiere Pro. 

I used Adobe Animate for creating the footage on the animation (Basically the 4th video is just of the footage I created on Adobe Animate)

Premiere Pro, I used for the fun experimentation, on the first 3 videos the B/W I got rid of the saturation on Premiere Pro. Whereas with the other two versions below the B/W version are more playful and fun with exploring the colour. reason I wanted to do this is because On Animate it only makes Gifs, which is fine but unfortunately couldn't put a gif file on Blogger... so I transferred that to Premiere Pro and let the experimentation do the talking. Where I then experimented with the colour and the Blend modes. 

I used Notes (an App on my iPad) for creating my storyboard below. 

Storyboard

Here is some animation experiments below,  based on this storyboard above. 

B/W

(Greyscale!) (Monochrome)

Experimentation with colour

Another experiment with colour

Final Variation

Evaluation

I think putting the gif together in general went well, I liked the ideas behind this animation with each month of the lockdown being summed up in the most summaries way. I think I drew the imagery fairly well, but it works for the aesthetic of this animation. I think this animation works well to sum up COVID 19 because it works well visually, with the motion graphics and the colours I have used in the animation works well also. 

I think a way I could improve on the makings to this animation is some of the text in this animation, this is me being picky- some of the text looked a little rushed and lack of effort put in. I should have typed up all the text as apposed to try drawing the text out for the sake of the text being more legible, the animation looking cleaner and to give it the  more professional aesthetic.  Also I would say I would improve on the way I filmed the final Variation, seeing as I filmed it using my phone on Adobe Animate, I was quite shaky with my phone and my hands wasn't exactly the steadiest. Mostly I'd say. to improve the clenliness of the animation some of the imagery I feel could of been a bit cleaner. 

I enjoyed creating this animation. I enjoyed drawing the imagery, putting the animation together and I have enjoyed experimenting with the colours on Premiere Pro and seeing what happens when I change the saturations and Blend Modes.  I also enjoyed discovering the Adobe Programmes more for myself as I quite like self discovery and self teaching as I find I get more impressed that I learn something for myself as it's me saying I learnt that- I taught myself that! 

There wasn't exactly an aspect to making this piece I didn't enjoy but I will tell you now it was very time consuming so I'd say maybe the amount of time it takes to put something like this together. Makes you appreciate all the Disney and Dream-works Animations the professionals create as sometimes it takes them a day to make a single second. I think that would physically drain me!

I would defiantly create this animation again! If I did create this animation again I would probably change the way I some of the text looked where I drew it instead of typing it out- next time I would probably type it out and maybe draw some of the images with cleaner lines and shapes. 

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