Information Design

Week  1 | Week  14
Mohamed Hammam Chebel (0342483) BDE's. Creative media (Hons) 
Information Design 
Exercises / Individual Projects Process 

Instructions 

Exercises 

 Kinetic Typography Exercise

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Kinetic Typography Exercise process, Adobe After Effects

In this very first exercise we were introduced to the software (Adobe After Effects), we learned how to do basic text animations using keyframes.

Also, I used some of the pre installed text animation presets to animate some of the phrases.

In this exercise we had to sync the text animation with the voice over given, It was a bit tricky and time consuming finding the right moment from the VO and sync it with the text. However, I learned a lot from this simple exercise as I never used this software before.

Here is the link for the final video: 

Kinetic Typography Exercise 

Animated Graph Exercise 

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Animated Graph Exercise Process, Adobe After Effects

In this exercise we were asked to make an animated chart or graph in After Effects using masking and trim path method, it was pretty straightforward and simple as Mr Shamsul explained the ways to do it.

Here is the link for the graph animation I did:

Graph Animation Exercise

Weather Forecast Infographic Video Exercise 

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 Weather forecast infographic video process, Adobe After Effects 

In this exercise, we wee asked to make an infographic weather forecast video using information about weather in different cities. 

Below are the information used in this video provided by Mr Shamsul.

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Information used in the video

For this exercise I used assets created in Adobe Illustrator, I arranged every asset in a sperate layer then imported them into After Effects. This way I can animated every vector shape individually.

I used simple animations for the assets and for the text I used a preset from the text effects menu, I kept the information for a while before it switches to the next city so the viewer can read the information, a the same time it wasn't too slow so the viewer won't get bored watching the video.

I used a background music and a background video of cities and nature, I applied a blur effect to the video so it acts as a background only and don't distract the audience from the information.

Here is the link for my final video:

Weather Forecast Video

Instructions 

Quantify and Visualize Data Exercise 01

In this exercise we were asked to collect bunch of items and categorize them, then count the items and display them on an A4 paper.

For me I chose to go with corn, I was cooking corn when I realized that I forgot the pot on the fire for a long time, so I burned some of the corn.

I made four categories of that corn and counted each item from each category, them placed all of the items in a chart.

As you can see in the picture below I made four categories of corn 

- Burned

- Normal

- Canned 

- Cooked

Along with these four I added two more categories which are "small and big".

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Step one 

I counted the items first and made the categories before making it into a chart.

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Step two (FINAL)

L.A.T.C.H Exercise 02

In this exercise we were asked to organize a group of information in an infographic poster, we were permitted to use any illustration software to create and arrange the information. 

I used Adobe photoshop because I think it is suitable for printable posters, I went with "the solar system" as the information displayed in the poster.

In the picture below you can see the process doing the poster 

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Planets

I used vector planets done in Adobe illustrator 

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Poster In Photoshop, without text

I imported the planets from Illustrator and added a black background, I drew the orbits using a default round brush, and drew the stars. for the sun I wanted to give it a glow effect so I duplicated the shape of the sun and applied blur filter to it.

  
  

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Poster, without text

After I was done with illustrations and visual effects, I added textual information for each planet.

I used my own font that I created in the previous semester in Advanced Typography module. I wanted the font to be friendly and a bit organic to match the colors of the planets.

link for the font used: Scorpiona hdjrita

below is the poster when I added text:

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L.A.T.C.H Poster 

After done with the text, and as I always do when designing a printable poster, I added a texture to it, so I get rid of the sharp digital look. The texture made it look like it is printed.

here is the final poster:

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L.A.T.C.H Poster (FINAL)

Project 01 - Instructable Poster_Recipe

in this project we are to design a poster for a recipe obtained from a you tube video, we are asked to pick a video from the you tube channel called "Pasta Grannies", I went with the Carbonara video featuring Pina the lovely grandma and chef.

here is the link of the video I chose:

Pina's Carbonara  

After watching the video I broke down the information in a sketch layout

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Recipe Sketch 

As you can see I sketched some of the steps and labeled them

I wanted to go with the chalkboard style, I noticed that a lot of Italian restaurants use chalkboards to display their daily menu, I wanted also to use hand lettering typography and use two or three colors only.

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Poster In Phostoshop

As you can see, I drew the assets and I wrote the text manually on real paper, I imported the calligraphy to Photoshop and edited it to blend with the rest of the illustrations, I gave the cheese a yellow color and added some leafs on the corners of the poster to give that organic look.

I used chalk brushes to give it a real chalk on blackboard effect. 

After I was done with the illustrations I added labels to each step, below is the final recipe poster.

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Instrctable Poster (FINAL) jpg

Project 02 Animated Recipe Infographic

In this final individual project we were asked to make an infographic video using the assets from the static poster.

I arranged the assets in separated layers then I imported them to After Effects. 

I used the same chalkboard style in the animated video to stay consistent.

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Animated Recipe progress After Effects

I used key frame animation through the whole video to animated the assets I applied blending modes for the assets so they blend with the background.

for the text I used a preset from the effects panel in After Effects.

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Animated Recipe progress After Effects

I added a background music to the whole video along with some sound effects synced with the motion of the assets.

I used Adobe Premiere Pro to add the sound effects as it is easier to sync sound.

Here is the link for the final video:

Animated Recipe

Group work - Group 4

Group members 

• Aishath Yumnu
• Mohamed Shaayif Shakir
• Mariyam Hanan As-ad
• Mohamed Hammam Chebel
• Raghad Al Sawaf 

In this section I will cover my Group work and contribution 

L.A.T.C.H

In this task we had to make research on LATCH and explain it to class (switching roles with the lecturer).

I took over the first principle which is location, I did some research about it and gathered two examples, when presenting I explained my part and I explained the examples attached in the slide.

here is a copy of our LATCH slides:

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LATCH Slides Group 4

Our next task is the final project, which is creating an infographic video about disinformation or misinformation.

 We chose our topic to be Misinformation about covid-19 in general. 

Firs, we gathered information about our chosen topic, so each one of us started doing research on a specific part. Then we compiled all the data we have and organized them.

here is our week 1 progression and gathering data:

 

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Week 1 Progression 

Data Collection

After done with collecting data we started organizing the information into acts and giving them a timeline, 

Here are the slides for week 2 Progression:

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week 2 Progression 

Acts and timeline

We made storyboards for all the acts, me Hanan and Yumnu drew the storyboards for the three acts.

Also, we added our drawing style and fonts will be used in the final video.

 

Here are the slides for week 3 Progression:

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Week 3 Progression 

Storyboards and art style

After we are done with deciding the art style and making the storyboards, we were asked to make a demo video that explains how the final video will be.

I helped with drawing all the assets for the animatics video, I drew them in Photoshop and seperated them into individual layers so they are easier to work with in After Effects.

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a sample of the assets used in the animatics video

After i was done with drawing the assets, Yumnu started animating them in After Effects 

Here is our final Animatic video link:

Group4_Animatic 

When we received feedback from Mr Shamsul we started working on the final video, Maryam Hanan took over the drawing, she drew all the assets for the final video in Illustrator and colored most of them.

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A sample of Hanan's drawings

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A sample of Hanan's drawings

After Hanan was done with the assets Yumnu started animating them in After Effects. She animated both act one and act two.

Then she sent me the project files so I animated act 3.

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Final act Adobe After Effects

After we were done with animating the assets we added sound effects and backgrounds to the video.\

Here is the link for our final video:

Group4_Final project