Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTec Level 3Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production

Unit 64 – Motion Graphics and Compositing VideoHA2 – E4 Sting Motion GraphicProduction Log

Name Emma Upton

Date: 02/12/13

When I was planning my E Sting I drew out my ideas, so my first step was to scan each of my storyboards and my picture of the parts that would be moving during my E Sting into my documents.

Date: 02/12/13

I opened up a new document on illustrator then imported my scan of the moving parts. I created a layer with the drawings on, then locked that layer, then created another layer over the top of that, then used the pen tool to trace around each individual drawing. Which I then saved the images into my documents so I could later open them in After Effects. I saved each of the drawings under names which clearly stated what they were as it would make editing easier because I would know exactly what each piece was. Here is the before and after using the pen tool.

Date: 02/12/13

Then I opened a new project on After Effects and imported each traced drawing into the project. Here you can see all the individual moving parts that had been imported.

Date: 02/12/13

After all the drawings had been properly imported I placed them into the timeline with each of the pieces on separate layers, which means they could move freely on their own.

Date: 09/12/13

This is when I started editing the e sting properly. I used the position tool on each moving piece to get it to move where I wanted it to, as seen here. This gives you full control of where you want the piece to move and when you want it to move there.

I then did this with each of the moving pieces, this took me a while to get the hang of but in the end worked out how to use the position tool properly.

So from that point I used the position tool on each of the moving pieces and positioned them when I wanted each piece to come in and go, how I wanted each of the pieces to move. For example I wanted each of the creatures to move closer to each other and then go under the grass, which is what I used the position tool to do.

Date: 09/12/13

After I had everything perfectly positioned where I wanted it to be and moved how I wanted it to move, which took a while. I was happy with the end result so I saved the project, rendered out my finished product, then uploaded it to YouTube and finally, embedded the video onto my blog.