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Critique: Design Boards - Information Visualization Project

After our Info Vis Project introduction, you should have some preliminary planning and design work in progress. We will review your design boards at the beginning of the class session as a group. Each student should present their design boards as a way to show us what they are planning to do in regards to things like color, graphics, illustrations, and general visual characteristics of the animation. There will be time for some feedback and suggestions as each students shares their work. Any printed copies of your design boards will be displayed in the lab.

Failing to show/share your work in progress in any significant way will effect your participation in the class session and will also be reflected in your project score under the "Evidence of Process" category in the rubric.

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Quick Animated Infographics

Some processes realted to animated infographcis will be demonstrated in class. You might also refer to this week's assigned tutorials: AE Guru: Animated Infographics Chp. 1 & 2.

• Animated Counter - NUMBERS!
• use a text layer with a number
• add Expression Control Effect - "Slider Control"
• add Expression to Source Text Property
• Connect Source Text Property Expression (Pickwhip) to Slider Control Effect
• This gives you a slider control for any value, with keyframes it becomes animated
• To eliminate Decimal Places, adjust Expression to read:
• Math.round(effect("Slider Control")("Slider"))
• Circle/Radial Bursts
• Radial Burst - shapes going out from center
• Shape Layer (Rectangle)
• Animate Path (Size and Position)
• Add "Repeater" to Contents of Shape Layer
• Repeater 8 Copies, 0 X 0 for Position, 45º for Rotation
• Sequential or Timed Burst - shapes going out at different times
• From Duplicate Layer, Remove Repeater
• Duplicate to make a second Shape Layer with same contents
• Add Expression to Rotation and Connect (Pickwhip) to Rotation on Second Layer
• thisComp.layer(index=1).transform.rotation*index
• Then Duplicate Layers and Offset Timing
• Adjust Rotation % to match so bursts rotate around like radial burst
• Circle Burst
• Start with Ellipse, With Stroke and No Fill
• Animate Ellipse Path Size and Stroke Width
• Mix and Match
• These processes can be combined or mixed with others
• Radial Type Animations can be used to create interesting visual arrays
• Demo AE Project with these examples

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Project Related Animated Infographics

• Line Graph
• Can create graphics in AE, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc
• Import or create compositions
• Use "Path" to create a animation path for an object
• Copy/Paste and adjust keyframes from one layer to another
• Meter Graph
• Can create graphics in AE, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc
• Import or create compositions
• Adjust anchor point for the dial/arrow/line
• Add and refine keyframes for rotation of dial/arrow/line
• Compositions, once created and animated can be "Pre Compositions" in longer comps
• Pre-Compositions can be animated in longer comps as if they were a "group"
• Demo Line Graph and Demo Meter Graph

Information Visualization Project Work Session

Refer to Info Vis Project Page

Use this work time to continue developing your project. Focus your energy on design and developing some assets for animation. There will be another, more formal, in-progress critique after the break. By that time, you should have a sense of the direction your animation will take and begun digging into the process.

 

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