ONW NOW FINAL CHANGES

After having my project evaluated by my teacher, he noted a major change that needed to be made. He stated that the compass had to be changed because since the project was made to represent e-Communication, not the whole school, the compass had to be replaced with the e-Comm logo, as shown below.

Here is the e-Comm logo, which replaced the compass for this project. (The white appearing inside of the E wasn't shown on the composition.)

As I placed the logo on the composition, I noticed some problems with the image, and decided to play around with some border effects for the logo.







My first idea was to give the logo a black border. I made it by changing the color hue to black and slightly scaling it up to a thin layer. The result of that is shown below.

I merged the two layers together, placing the black border behind the blue logo, which I think is nice.

Another experiment I did was on the composition, I made a white border around the E to put focus on the logo. This didn't turn out to be my final idea because the white border was overwhelmingly bold and shifted the focus away from the logo.

As you can see, the white border overpowers the logo, and doesn't look very clean.










For my backup plan on the border, I proposed the idea of having a faded border, created using the Glow Effect with the original colors placed.

After the different tests run, a final product was made with the guidance of my animation teacher, who pointed out the flaws the details provided to the project.

One idea he thought of was that since the compass was covering up the spinning effect, he suggested that I should zoom into the center of the project, and make the e-Comm logo jump out.






Through this transition, the spinning layers' opacity decreases, and the logo's opacity and size increases. Optical Flares is also added to brighten up the fading layers.

The Optical Flares continues on and slowly dims away to nothing, matching the audio fading away.








The last sound effect made is put into motion with a blue glow, where it's intensity increases, and goes back to normal, ending with the whole composition fading to black.







These final details changed the whole purpose of the animation, where attention is placed on the many details that form this big picture. Though there were times I had uncertainty on what editions had to be included, having another set of eyes improved my thoughts on animating and the outcome of the animation as a whole.

Here is the final render of the ONW NOW Ending. Enjoy!

ONW NOW PROJECT EVALUATION

Yesterday, I got my animation project evaluated in class. I presented my project infront of the class, summarizing how the project was created with specific details and steps made, along with my personal thoughts and struggles of the project. I received some good feedback about the project from my teacher, which wasn't expected of me.

One compliment received with my project was  the arrival of the compass. When it comes to the screen, the compass jumps, and slightly decreases in size, creating a smooth transition.

My teacher also liked the small glow texture shown here. It quickly appears at the peak of the animation, where the compass is at it's largest scaling point, or greatest size.

Another compliment received from me was the great timing with Optical Flares. I felt relieved about that compliment since it was my first time using this plug in.

Within my other classmates, not many commentary was given, but all the feedback received was positive.




Despite the positive comments given, there were mistakes made in my project. One of them was that since the compass popped up on the animation and covered up the original project, there was a sense of emptiness given with my original project. My teacher told me he will talk to me about alternative transitions that could be made to close this gap.