Jesslyn's Design Journal

DIGITAL IMAGING AND VISUALISATION - EXERCISES Lecture/ Tutorial 9:  Introduction to Adobe After Effects October 30, 2017 - Week 9 Jesslyn Fabryando - 0332213 Digital Imaging & Visualisation Further Activity in Adobe After Effects (Exercises) Practical 9:  Looping and Animating small movement in Adobe After Effects On week nine, we were learning about animating certain image with a very light movement. Aside from that we learn how to loop the animated image so that it looks smooth.  We were asked to download any image to animate it. I downloaded a cloud for me to animate it. Fig. 1. Cloud downloaded from the internet After I downloaded my cloud, I open it in Adobe Photoshop to make some adjustment to the cloud. My canvas size is 4000x1080. I added some background color which is light blue as well as I duplicate the cloud image and rotate it at the same time to make it a different look. Fig. 2. The result of changing the background colo...

DIGITAL IMAGING AND VISUALISATION - EXERCISES Lecture/ Tutorial 7:  Introduction to Adobe After Effects October 9, 2017 - October 23, 2017 - Week 7 - Week 8 Jesslyn Fabryando - 0332213 Digital Imaging & Visualisation Introduction to Adobe After Effects (Exercises) Lecture 7:  Introduction Adobe After Effects On week seven learning digital imaging and visualization, the lecturer introduced us to another software which is Adobe After effects. We create animation in Adobe After Effects which is easier than animating it in Adobe Photoshop. Practical 7:  Introduction Adobe After Effects We were asked to download an image of an astronaut and a galaxy as the background. Our task is to move the astronaut. It's either left or right, up or down, rotate, zoom in and zoom out. We also learnt familiarizing the tools. One of the tool is the pen tool where we used it to crop the image that is unwanted. Fig. 1. Image of an astronaut Fig. 2. Image of...

TYPOGRAPHY AND HYPERTEXTUALITY - Project 2 (Font Design) 25 October, 2017 - 8 November, 2017  (Week 8 - Week 10) Jesslyn Fabryando  (0332213) Typography & Hypertextuality Project 2  Font Design Lecture 8:  Briefing on Project 2 (Font Design) 25 October, 2017 (Week 8) On this week 8, we are starting our second project which is designing a font of our own. There is no lecture given rather we were just shown examples of the previous batch's font that they designed as well as our lecturers' design font. We were told that the good looking font is when we maintain the consistency of each letters of alphabets, readable and the legibility. Lecture 9: No Lecture 1st November, 2017 (Week 9) Lecture 10: Text/ Leading and Line Length 8 November, 2017 (Week 10) On this week 10, we were reminded that the goal in setting type is allow for easy, prolonged reading. At the same time a field of type should occupy the page as photograph does. Type...

ILLUSTRATION AND VISUAL NARRATIVE - Assignment 3 (Graphic Novel) 12 October, 2017 - 2 November, 2017  (Week 7 - Week 10) Jesslyn Fabryando  (0332213) Illustrative and Visual Narrative Lecture/ Tutorial/ Practical -   Week 7  (12 October, 2017) :  Graphic Novel (Briefing) On our seventh week, We were brief on our third assignment which is making Graphic novel. Mr. Hafiz explained the different transitions. According to American Cartoonist and Theorist, Scott McCloud transitions in sequential art (in particular comics id est graphic novels) separates the panel-to-panel transitions into five importantly utilized categories. Fig. 1. moment-to-moment transitions, action-to-action transitions, subject-to-subject transitions, scene-to-scene transitions, aspect-to-aspect transitions Number 6, non sequitur transitions will not be used for this assignment. The different types of transitions can also affect pacing, such as moment-to-moment t...