Motion Graphics: Logo by Rafid Khan

                                                                  Motion Graphics: Logo

                                                                          by Rafid Khan 

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   This is my Motion Graphic Logo animation, it looks decent in my opinion but of course, I think it could be better. For my logo animation, I used Adobe Animate to animate my logo demonstrations. The first thing I did was create the usual, such as the cityscape, clouds, building, ocean and the sun. Afterwards, I animated it for each factor except the city scape. With the clouds, I used classic tween but used a very long frame to make it slowly move. With the sun and the water, I separated into different keyframes for it to move. For example, I used the sun spark on each keyframe to rotate around the circle each time. For the ocean, I horizontally was moving the wave to the right. Afterwards, I created a missile in a new file. I created the missiles with pen tool. Afterwards, I turned it into a symbol. Inside the symbol, I created the flames and then animate the flames. Where the flames goes big and small on repeat. I then copied and paste it into my original file. This is when I animated the missile. I animate the missiles vertical and in the middle, where it comes  down into the page and then comes out. I then created the nuke bomb in a separate file, I drew the entire thing by pen tool but then I realized that this is too much effort and I can't do this. So I cancelled my plan in putting the nuke bomb. Instead I went back to my original file and creates a white circle. Where once the missile goes behind the cityscape, the small white circle gets big to the point the covers up the entire page. I used classic tween for this. I then recreated my Dystopian Design logo and then copy/paste it into my main file. When the small white circle becomes big to the point it covers up the entire page, it then transition into a black color. I used shape tween for that, once it transitions to a black color, my logo fades in. My first attempt was using shape tween for my logo, making it transition from black to white. However, the lines moves and gets messed up when I try to do that. Instead I separated the frames of my logo into a keyframe, where each frame, the color gets lighter until it reach a certain shade of gray for my logo. 

    Once I "finalized" my logo animation, I had to present my logo animation to my Graphic Design class, Where I got a lot of critics and suggestions on what can I do to make my logo animation better. They suggested that I should "add a meteor penetrating the earth rather than the bomb." "Although the urban perspective being present, it could be controversial, as a result he should use a abstract background." Everyone seems to agree with me using a meteor and possibly have some effect to it. This impacted my work a lot of ways. Well first of all, the bombs I cancelled using is something I reconsidered using for my logo animation. Where I animated the bomb by having the mushroom and branch grow up like a plant, then have a mini mushroom fade in and have the effect pop out behind it. For the he mushroom and branch, I used classic tween to make it small to big. For the small mushroom, I used shape tween and the effects, I just used keyframes where one frame doesn't have it but the other frames do right after the bomb occurs. Then, I created meteor but using the pen tool. I animated it by animating the flames where it goes from big to small and on repeat. I then went to my original file, and deleted the missile and replaced it with the meteor. I used classic tween from having the meteor in the corner of the page and then hitting it in the center. Once I did that, I then copy paste the bomb. The only issues was adjust the size and the location frame by frame. Once I fixed the bomb, I then further animated my entire pages with shape tween by turning everything white in the end. Afterwards, the white pages slowly transitioned into a black page and my logo fades in. 

    Overall, this assignment had it's own fun but also had it's own challenges. One glow I may have been able to achieve is put my dedication and use all the knowledge I have used in my freshmen year into make a "professional cartoon like" animation. This is the most hardest animated work I have done than in my freshmen year in  Adobe Animate. One grow or challenges that I've faced in this assignment that I should overcome for later animations for future assignments is dealing with minor errors. One minor errors I have dealt that took away a lot of time is the size and adjustment due to the keyframes. The keyframes makes it out of order and sacrifice my time into making other productive efforts into my animations. The goal should be make the different design and size first and then insert the keyframe. Additional issues were the shape tween, it commands differently like I want to put focus on the transitioning color but it rather focuses on the lines around it that messes it up. My goal for this is to overcome the shape tween issues and find tactics to make these transition more successful. 

Therefore, my animations is rather an 7/10 and it may not be my best animation but it is a hardworking and  honest work.