OUGD502 - Studio Brief 01 - After Effects

In OUGD504 Studio Brief 02 we started exploring after effects to animate the digital designs that we had produced. This is a skill that I had been dying to try as it can really bring a digitally designed piece to life. We had numerous lessons to learn these new skills. 

In industry designers work together with developers to bring the website to life through coding. However it is the designers job to communicate the ways in which they expect the website to move and respond to the user. This can be achieved by animating the design in programmes such as After Effects , iMovie and premiere to give to the developer as an example of how you want the website to work in reality, avoiding confusion and problems further down the line. 

Above is the final video that I designed for the outcome of OUGD505 Sb2 I am really happy with the way that it came out. I used both iMovie and After Effects to bring the design to life, showing examples of how different user interfaces would work and how the users mouse interacted with the page in areas such as hovering over the images to flick through them in the search results. It effectively shows howe every aspect of the design responds to the user. I found it and really difficult and tedious process but after a lot of rigorous work, the outcome worked really well to showcase the user experience. 

I am looking forward to trying after effects in the future as I want to experiment a lot more in digital design and this is a really good way to show what you've made.