Motion: Entry 15

Final Project

Creative Brief

For this project, I will be creating a short but informative video on how people can create and order their own PCBs using software like Eagle.  I will do a short voiceover that covers the subject more in-depth that the animation with the animation adding and emphasizing phrases. The video will progress also have some light explainer music, maybe something more techno to go with the subject matter. The colors and icons will also be from the manufacturing process and transitions will use traces of “copper” wire to bring the project together.

Script

So, you want to make a custom PCB.

Let’s take this typewriter for example. We want to make it work as a printer for our computer.

First, we need to figure out how the PCB will work and draw a schematic for it.

Next, we need to figure out what manufacturer we want to use and the parts they will have available. Alternatively, we can buy the parts and solder them ourselves

Now, we can start designing our PCB.

Start by finding the parts we will be using in our PCB.

For this PCB, we will only need 2n3904 Transistors and 0805 resistors.

Add all the parts to the schematic file and add connections in the correct places.

Now, we will move on to the board.

Put all the parts in the right places and add the traces where we want them.

Make sure there are can overlaps and that all the parts can be soldered

After sending off the PCB to be printed, it will be ready in a few weeks.

Congratulations on your first PCB.

Video

Motion: Entry 12

Mood Board: Audio Visualizer

I was always a fan of trippy animation. While After Effects is not the best medium for hand-drawn animation, I think that by using only a few frames of drawn animation and interpolation between the frames using keyframed shapes, I will be able to achieve an approximate effect.

Motion: Entry 11

Creative Brief: Audiovisualizer

For this project, I will be using a piece of music I made for Sound. While the music is not very good, the rhythms and movements are easily discernable and I will be able to map all of the different tracks to their own shapes.

The song is fairly upbeat and has a lot of varying sounds in it. I think I used a bottle opener and a lighter and a few other physical items to craft the song. For this, I want to use short repetitive graphics of the physical objects using path shaping. The shapes will also morph and scale as they fade and are changed in the song. Lastly, I want the colors to be vivid and bright on a black background to contrast the melody from the electric guitar.

Motion: Entry 9

Expressions

This is a short clip using expressions to control gears and make sure that, through math, the gears are in sync forever.

Motion: Entry 7

Project 2: Creative Brief & Story Board

For Project 2, I will be using the assets and data from one of my previous projects in Text. I will also add a voice-over as many of the infographics is about notable philosophers and their lives. It will also include some death metal music to accentuate the nihilism and as well as make the voice-over less jarring.

The project will cover the subject of nihilism. It will start with a brief overview of the history including notable philosophers such as Camus, Nietzsche, Sartre, and others. Though these philosophers are not nihilists in a strict sense, their radical departures from their respective milieus have influenced the modern manifestations of nihilism. The next short section will cover the modern manifestations of nihilism including Rick & Morty, BoJack Horseman, and another because three is a good number. The last section will look at what Camus’ considers the three reactions to nihilism: religion, death, or embracing the absurd. These will be written as stats about death, religion, and absurdism and a departure from the normal.

All backgrounds will be in grey and all writing will be in Helvetica or Univers in black with no capitals. In order to add life to the project without starying from the theme, I will have rotoscoped icons and figures in black which will contrast with the flat typography on grey. Rotoscoped images will also add to the absurdist views that I incorporated from Sartre and Camus.

Story Board

A single frame is not missing explaining the meaning of this infographic.