For narrative two in digital media we did many projects that honed our narrative craft to prepare us to make our World building better. Chief among them was the multi layer project which in digital media is our main and biggest World building connection. This part of the project in digital media was really an opportunity take our Worldbuilding and turn it into something more physical.
Funny Compositions
For one of our projects in digital media we were asked to make two funny Photoshop compositions to prepare and hone our skills the for worldbuilding surreal composition. I think that I did quite well on mine, but I do prefer the first one because I think that I blended it overall better and I think that the concept was better.
Motion Graphics
For our next project in digital media I did Motion Graphics which is basically animating stuff in After Effects. Before I made the one you see above, I made five different practice videos where I practiced various things like the animated lines and waveforms you can see in the final video. I also did other things like Rotoscoping which is a type of animation where you animate over previously existing video. In the end, I put the video together from all of the practice I had done.
Multi-Layer Project
For our next project in digital media we did our most Worldbuilding connected project. We were tasked with making either a paper light box, a piece of stacked wood art or a piece of ring art based on our World building project. All of them were cut out with Mr. Flo’s laser machine. I chose to do the paper light box. I designed an image of a time portal in Illustrator. With multiple layers, you create a deepening portal effect by having each layer be a strip of the portal that goes back in space. I also added a silhouette of our two main characters standing in front of it, and about to go through. I added the text at the top for visual interest. Overall, this project was very fun and one the very few physical art projects we do at Freestyle.
You can see here an image of my process in Illustrator, and the final image from the multi-layer project
Videos
For the last part of the multi-layer project we made 2 videos you can see below. One of them is a timelapse of laser cutting and assembling the physical lightbox. The second one shows off the layers of the lightbox in a 3D animated and camera panning form that is quite interesting.
For the multi-layer art project I created a multitude of things. The main part of the project is creating a layered cardstock lightbox used to show the project in a physical form. The first step was to use Illustrator to design it based on my Worldbuilding project. My goal was to create a portal with an interesting tunnel effect to be cool and have a 3-D effect. I made each layer of the light box into a smaller hole that was portal shaped, to make it look like the portal was stretching back in space. After completing the layers of the portal, I decided to add a silhouette of the two people from our story going through the portal. This would enhance the aesthetic of the portal and add more depth to the overall piece. I also added text above the portal as a fun extra design touch. After I was done, Mr. Florendo laser cut it out with his machine and once we were done laser cutting the pieces out I assembled them into a box made out of laser cut wood that I had previously assembled. I spray painted the outside of the box silver. After that, I started assembling the layers with Elmer’s glue and foam separators to emphasize the 3-D effect and then once I glued them all in we added LED strips to the back that I colored purple and blue, After it was done I made a time lapse video of the assembly, which I had been filming the whole time. To get the video to be under the required two minutes I had to speed up the footage I had taken over 5000 percent of its regular speed. Once the video was done, I did the final part of this project which was making a 3-D render of the layers in After Effects where I used key frame animation to pan the camera around, and truly emphasizing the 3-D effect. I thought this project was extremely fun and a great expansion of my skills in many ways.