Information Design - Exercises and Flip Presentations

Posted by Jasmine Teoh January 07, 2019

Information Design - Exercises and Flip Presentations

7/1/19 - 20/2/19 (Week 1 to Week 7)

Jasmine Teoh Lee Suan

Information Design

Exercises and Flip Presentations

Instructions:

Module Information Booklet:

Assignment Briefs:

EXERCISES:

Week 1: Introduction to Infographics Exercise (7/1/19)

We started off with an introduction to Infographics and what it was all about.

Figure 1.1 Data Collection of Topic

Figure 1.2 Screenshot of Layout on Photoshop

Figure 1.3 Layout of Infographics

Figure 1.4 Screenshot of Timeline on After Effects

Figure 1.5 Screenshot of Effects on After Effects

Figure 1.6 Screenshot of Effects on After Effects

Figure 1.7 Screenshot of Rendered Video on YouTube

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQHX3sUWqIA

Week 1: Buttons Exercise (8/1/19)

We had to gather information on buttons and compile it, then covert it into an infographic poster that contained the data that had been gathered.

Figure 2.1 Arrangement of Buttons into groups

Figure 2.2 Information Collected from Buttons

Figure 2.3 Information Collected from Buttons (Rough)

Figure 2.4 Buttons Infographics Reference

Figure 2.5 Compilation of Button Information

Figure 2.6 Button Infographics Moodboard

Figure 2.7 Progress of Buttons Infographic Poster

Figure 2.8 Sketch of Buttons Infographic Layout / Idea

Figure 2.9 Screenshot of layers of the poster on Photoshop

Final Poster:

Figure 2.10 Final Buttons Infographic Poster

Week 2: Dynamic Numbering (15/1/19)

We learned how to program the numbers to move efficiently, and move the bar according to the value of the numbers on Adobe After Effects. I was very intrigued to know that you could link the values to each other to make life easier.

Figure 3.1 Screenshot of Dynamic Numbers Exercise on After Effects

I uploaded the video of my exercise onto YouTube.

Mr Kannan also taught us some extra stuff after that, we played around with the circle layer's value and keyframes to create a short animation element. I tried to keep up as much as I could but this was a little complicated for me. I decided to go home and watch youtube tutorials and learn it slowly.

Figure 3.2 Screenshot of Ding Dong Bell Extra on After Effects

Again, I uploaded the video of my exercise onto YouTube.

The real Dynamic Numbers exercise was to create an infographic video based on the theme given (my theme was 'Currency'), applying what was learnt in the previous exercise into your animations.

Figure 3.3 Screenshot of Layout of Dynamic Numbering on Photoshop

Figure 3.4 Dynamic Numbering Assets

Figure 3.5 Screenshot of Animation Layers of Dynamic Numbering on After Effects

Figure 3.6 Screenshot of Animation Layers of Dynamic Numbering on After Effects

Final video of Dynamic Numbering on YouTube:

Week 3: Pokemon L.A.T.C.H (22/1/19)

We had our Intercultural Design study trip this week, therefore there were no classes for Information Design. Instead, we had to complete our Pokemon Infographic Video exercise by this week. The lecturers recommended us to use the L.A.T.C.H formula by Paul Wurman in our infographic video and include information regarding location, alphabetical order, time, different categories and hierarchy of 4 different types of Pokemon.

I sketched out my ideas of the layout and noted down the information for the Pokemon I chose before creating my assets and layout on Photoshop.

Figure 4.1 Sketches and Ideas on Pokemon Infographics

Figure 4.2 Information of Pokemon according to L.A.T.C.H.

I then started working on the layout and graphics of the video. I went for a Pokemon game theme for my video.

Figure 4.3 Layout of the start of the video

Figure 4.4 Screenshot of Layout and Layers of Pokemon Infographic Video on Photoshop

Figure 4.5 Screenshot of Layout and Layers of Pokemon Infographic Video on Photoshop

Figure 4.6 Screenshot of Layout and Layers of Pokemon Infographic Video on Photoshop

Figure 4.7 Screenshot of Layout and Layers of Pokemon Infographic Video on Photoshop

Figure 4.8 Assets and References

I moved my assets to After Effects and started working on the video.

Figure 4.9 Screenshot of Layers of Pokemon Infographic Video on After Effects

Figure 4.10 Screenshot of Layers of Pokemon Infographic Video on After Effects

Figure 4.11 Screenshot of Layers of Pokemon Infographic Video on After Effects

Figure 4.12 Screenshot of Layers of Pokemon Infographic Video on After Effects

Final video of Pokemon L.A.T.C.H. Infographics uploaded to YouTube:

Week 4: After Effects Mister Horse Exercise (29/1/18)

We were introduced an After Effects animation plug-in this week called Mister Horse. It makes every amateur animator's life easy. There are many preset animations to choose from, all you have to do is select the layer/ asset that you want to animate and drag the effect onto it through the animation composer window. You can alter the settings individually as well under the effects layer if you want to.

Figure 5.1 Mister Horse Animation Composer Presets

We were told to explore with the plugin freely, which is exactly what I did. I made two 3 second videos in class, and enjoyed learning and using Mister Horse to help with my animations. I tried making a lyric video for a song called Cherry Bomb for the first video.