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In Digital Media, the main focus for the World Building project was to learn visual effects to enhance our story through learning Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funny Compositions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prior to making my surreal composition for my story, I made some funny compositions through Photoshop as practice. This is something I have always enjoyed doing, as I commonly cut out pictures of me and paste them into video game backgrounds. When creating the funny compositions, I wanted to take the chance to continue this, so I took some photos of me sitting and loaded up Minecraft to take some screenshots of the game, before cutting and pasting each element. Finally, I applied a color blend mode effect to make sure the lighting matches up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me riding a Minecraft boat on a video editing timeline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Me riding a Minecraft happy ghast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Being able to produce funny compositions means I can visually communicate a story through humor, which most of the time cannot be captured by singular unedited photos. This also means I can create memes of topics I like and post them on Instagram for people to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photoshop process of the flying ghast edit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photoshop process of the boat edit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Motion Graphics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While learning funny compositions, I also got to learn many basic features of Adobe After Effects. For those who don’t know what After Effects is, it’s basically a visual effects editing software that has a ton of 2D and 3D creative effects that can be done, which is a really creative tool, but can also make your computer sound like an airplane engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned many elements of After Effects that I did not know previously, such as text animators, tracking moving objects through the rotoscoping brush tool, and making sound wave effects through responding to the background music. At the end, I used most of the components I learned to make my own short After Effects project, where I made it based on a staple remover because why not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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