Motion Graphics Fall '22 - Dani Baez-Robles

 For some reason, Youtube would not let me upload this version of my current progress so I am hoping Blogger is able to process this video. This has been a lot harder than I thought it would be so I am hoping to be done my the time this video is due and if not I hope to have quite a bit of progress on it done. I am quite happy with how the cat graphics I've made have worked out for this video but when they move it's a bit clunky so I'm hoping to solve than in a way that works. 

 For my Infographic project I would like to make an video about black cat adoptions and how they are severely under adopted and at more of a risk of being euthanized. This issue affects both cats and dogs with black coats but to keep everything simple and under a minute I decided to focus on cats. This issue is personal to me as I have a black cat named Andromeda and when I adopted her she had been neglected because of her coat color and as a result was very shy and wasn't a huge fan of people. After doing some research about this topic it seems there's a lot more to it than it seems and I hope to convey some of that through my video. 

Here is my final video for my personal tag. It was going well until several effects stopped working at the last minute. The letters were supposed to stretch at the end and a little star animation was supposed to show up. I'm not sure why this happened but I had been having a lot of difficulties with After Effects up until it stopped working. The letter stretch is still kind of there but it's kind of jerky and awkward now but I was not able to salvage the little star animation at all. The gradient background also moved in a loop and that did not export at all.  I'm glad I got most of it working but I am still quite disappointed not everything did.   

  I tried using a droplet effect to reveal my name and other information on the screen. I'm happy that it worked and that it looks quite interesting but I have to find a way for the screen to be black and for everything to be actually revealed like I want it to be.