Category: Motion Graphics / After Effects
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Kinetic Text: “Whisper”
The idea for this project originated around a small entre-acte on a Regina Spektor album: a short whispered dialogue between Regina and a younger girl, the track is called “Whisper”. I thought it would be charming to animate this dialogue, using kinetic text and motion graphics in After Effects. Since the theme is about waiting and…
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Motion graphics: Corporate product training
I was asked to create a series of training videos for FirstHand, about some products for health care providers. This is a small segment about hand hygiene. I created drawings in Illustrator, incorporating their logos and branding, then animated in After Effects.
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Animated Logo: FirstHand
I recently completed a training video for the company FirstHand. As an intro to this training video, I wanted to help establish the brand by creating a short, catchy animated logo. I worked in After Effects, preparing some assets in Illustrator, and making a short audio loop in Garage Band. FirstHand provides a system of hand…
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ASAM Corporate Motion Graphics
One of the corporate freelance clients I worked is the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). The first project was the improved layout for their infographic for a slide pack and print, and I wanted to explore their other instructional materials. One of the assets in their PDF documentation is a flowchart about pregnancy and addiction.…
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Educational: Motion Graphics teaching photography
This is a small excerpt from the online course “Making Science and Engineering Pictures“, which I’ve posted a little about already. In this sequence, I took a screenflow about using some photography software and heavily edited it to follow the narration, and added motion graphics to demonstrate the lesson. The illustrations were done in Adobe…
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EdX Production Notes: part 2
Part 2 Production Notes about the EdX course “Making Science and Engineering Pictures”, a free online course taught by science photographer Felice Frankel. (Part 1 of my production notes are here.) Robin Heyden was the Educational Consultant on this project, and shortly after the course was completed, she and I sat down to a skype conversation about the creation…
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EdX Production Notes: part 1
I was privileged to work over the last year developing an online course with MITx. This was my first introduction to the world of MOOC’s, Massive Online Open Courseware, and the edx.org platform. The model is a fresh take on education, allowing thousands of students across the globe to enroll in courses offered by leading institutions. The…
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Creative Split Screens
This is a tutorial series where I teach, step by step, from total beginner to more advanced After Effects techniques. It was originally published on udemy.com, but I am making some content available for free on youtube, this is a playlist of public tutorial videos. Overview of Creative Split Screens Part 1 Overview of Creative…
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After Effects Animation: Entity of Creation
This animation was all done in After Effects, utilizing kinetic texts and complex layers of images prepared in Photoshop. See production notes here.
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After Effects Animation: Reeling for the Empire
This is a main title sequence based on a short story by Karen Russel, in which Japan’s Meiji-era silk industry exploits women in a very surreal and disturbing way. In this main title sequence, I wanted to establish a sense of place, time, characters, and an unsettling mystery. As the art director, I took several things…