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This piece was created in response to wanting to design and animate to music and this single felt a good choice to play with that.

waterfall script typography (instagram).mp4

This was School of Motion's 4 week prompt challenge/competition in September (2023) that explored four principles of animation. The designs were provided and the user was able to use/create their own designs but I chose to retain the restraint of the provided designs.

The aim of the final output photo was to create a scene that reminisces the world of Lord of the Rings as the photo was taken in Lancashire, where Tolkien got a lot of his inspiration.The visuals in the shot also reminded me of The Shire, the mounds, the forest, the lighting and the composition. So the use of AI to enhance that look and feel enabled me to achieve that vision.

fire comp 01 (Instagram).mp4

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Notes

Basic shapes and vector tracing were done, and the visual style was emphasised in the post-production in Ae by using gradient colours and glows. I didn't want to design the train to have too much detail, as it was quite small to see that and it was to keep it somewhat concise with the overall aesthetic.

circular_text_Blender [PP] (alpha-Instagram).mp4

This piece was to give some practice with illustration and animating with audio, instead of just leaving it silent.

These were just some quick explorations of using animated variable typography with moving image, creating a simple animation that celebrates two victories of two Yorkshiremen during the UCI World Championships—Tom Pidcock in XCO and Jack Carthy in Trials.

The text and torus model was done in Blender and then exported to After Effects for post-production. When editing in post-production, it was a cool feeling, tweaking and adjusting little visual details to achieve a neat and intended look and feel.

With the rise and fame of AI in the creative realm, I wanted to try it out with photo editing. The ease of adding and removing elements and layers was seamless.

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This short but project-heavy piece was created after coming across some new found design resources and I instantly had an idea on how to utilise the photos/renders to animate fire in a stop motion look and feel.

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I spent a few hours on one day for each piece and during the process on some of them, I was overthinking it to produce something "great" to post. So, I removed that mindset and animated something simple and fine-tuned the motion in the easing and graph editor.

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This was just a quick play-around with Made By Loop's script, Waterfall.It's an interesting script that provides a lot of control that is similar to the Echo effect

train through hills (Instagram).mp4

circular_text_Blender [PP] (no alpha-Instagram).mp4

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Now U Do piece V02 (compressed).mp4

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As I was seeing a lot of posts and content created with Blender, I found the time to experiment it myself. I have some knowledge and experience of using Cinema 4D in some previous projects, so the 3D realm wasn't too much, but I still had to get to grips as I haven't created/animated 3D for a while [at this point]

After finding out the technique to achieve a hand-drawn style from Ben Marriott on YouTube, I applied the stack of effects to a simple design of a moving image single cover, with music to accompany it.

These pieces were created following a tutorial on YouTube and the process wasn't too complicated to follow, but I would still need to look up a few things if I wanted to attempt a similar project today.

Slow In Slow Out (Instagram).mp4

Something different to a animation project, but decided to edit a photo with AI taken from one of my MTB rides.

anticipation (Instagram).mp4

The third-party effect Modulation was used on top of ocean waves stock footage and then coloured on top for the background to give that europhia pop music kind of feel.And different states of typefaces that are animated reflect those different emotions when listening to the single, especially if heard/experienced live.

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01 XCO V01 (twitter).mp4

hand drawn style type (Instagram).mp4

This quick project was in response to listening to the Creative Boom's podcast for the first time. I'm not really into podcasts but gave this a try as there is a lot of content to listen to and embrace.

follow through (Instagram).mp4

squash + stretch (Instagram).mp4

quote Paula Scher (Instagram).mp4

I further created the visual style with using Pixel Sorter on stock photos of grand interior castles and palaces to give that look and feel at a club during a live set stage visuals. Giving that grungy and heavy texture look and feel, somewhat similar to experiencing a live set in Depot Mayfield, Manchester or someplace similar.

26 Paula Scher quote - motion type

05 animated typography

17 SOM - SOMTEMBER

14 UCI MTB social posts

25 Ps AI generated photo edit

09 Loki (inspired) typography

18 circular text animation in Blender

22 train through hills illustration animation

10 waterfall script typography

19 hand drawn style motion typography

Collated single space of small and personal project experiments, playfulness and exploration of visuals, look and feel. (Sub-boards in chronological order—newest on top)

Playground—Experiments//Exploration

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /27 fire flames stop motion style comp

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /26 Paula Scher quote - motion type

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /25 Ps AI generated photo edit

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /22 train through hills illustration animation

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /19 hand drawn style motion typography

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /18 circular text animation in Blender

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /17 SOM - SOMTEMBER

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /14 UCI MTB social posts

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /13 DJ Seinfield - Now U Do typography piece

Playground—Experiments//Exploration /10 waterfall script typography