Kaylee Powers & Motion Media

1. Tetris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY&feature=youtu.be I feel so lucky that this was the first stop animation that I came across. I'm so blown away by this and actually forgot I wasn't really watching or playing a game of Tetris...I felt the stress and anxiety to move the pieces to the correct place. Amazing! 2. Human Skateboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtbQ4J3RfQ8&feature=youtu.be This one was super cool and clearly must have taken hours to make...I'm stunned at how they had him hanging of the edge of the curb! 3. Lego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHvb_3TVAfA&feature=youtu.be I have watched this a few times now and still cannot believe it is all made out of Legos...people have so much patience! 4. A Short Love Story https://vimeo.com/877053 This was was different but I was amazed at how it transitioned from clay-like characters, to parts that were made out of paper and then real life features...very creative 5. Chess h

Cinemagraphs Crosswalk: I had some fun sitting in the window of a restaurant in downtown Boston. I made this cinemagraph first through the Photoshop timeline and thought it came out decent for my first try! Free throw: My brother plays basketball for Suffolk University, so I thought playing around at one of his games would be a perfect opportunity to do something interesting - It's not as seamless as I would have liked it to be but still found it to be fun. I also used photoshop's timeline for this cinemagraph due to some complications I was having with After effects. Ballerina: I have been a dancer for twenty years and the mirror is such an important factor for learning our choreography - I tired to capture one of my friends doing her fouette's through After Effects but had a lot of trouble with making this one seamless. I hope to keep learning, playing around and practicing with making my own cinemagraphs!

Storytelling The great challenge is more about disciplining yourself to reel it in and be intentional about your storytelling choices. The first step in storytelling is to create a story structure.   Create 15-30 cue cards – the moments / active steps that move the story forward.   Each card can be physical or emotional and should represent an active step or beat in the storyline. Next, a  Three-Act Structure should be created by p lacing cue cards on the wall in chronological order in three separate rows (a story with three acts). A character has a problem The character works towards a solution The character solves the problem, usually in a surprising way A fourth row of “additional beats” can also be created that don’t fit in the structure or you  are unsure of at the moment (may not even use them) T his works for infographics too  such as PSA's.  The first act   (first row of beats) should introduce the character(s), establish what they want and introduce a proble

Tornado: https://www.gallereplay.com/article?id=TXVuaWNoIC0gRmxvd2Vycw== I chose this cinemagraph because the movement at the top of the tornado was so subtle and smoothly done that you barely care to notice that the tornado itself does not even move at all! Sparkler: https://www.gallereplay.com/article?id=fefc90fe-4ea1-4aad-bd34-dbdc42b832f5 This one was done really well in the sense that it is very seamless - it never looks like it will go out. Traffic: https://www.gallereplay.com/article?id=TmV3IFlvcmsgLSBMYXRlIGZvciBCcm9va2x5bg== I loved this one! It's so interesting to see traffic moving only on one side - it also looks like it's sped up a lot. Subway / Escalator: https://www.gallereplay.com/article?id=UGFyaXMgLSBBZ2FpbnN0IHRoZSBDdXJyZW50 This one is interesting because of the opposition in motion from the subway train and the escalator - not to mention the man facing the wrong way! Sunlight: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/video.gallereplay.com/artist

Animated GIFs For my first GIF, I made a clock with a moving minutes hand through Photoshop's frame animation. I have taken two motion graphics classes in my undergrad, however, they were a few years ago so this was a great refresher for me! I think both the frame animation and video timeline features on Photoshop are a great way to create a quick, fun GIF. I have never played around with onion-skinning before, so this was super fun for me to create! I love to draw and paint so making this made me feel as though I was actually making my animation come to life! I'm excited to keep messing around with it! I was nonchalantly chewing gum while making my other two GIFs...which gave me the idea for this one! I drew the images in Adobe Illustrator and then used Photoshop's frame animation again to enlarge the bubble! 

Rotating Puzzle Peices This simple GIF is mesmerizing! As simple as it is it makes me wonder if it was difficult to make having to make sure that all of those different slots lined up perfectly. Coffee GIF I chose this GIF because I think it is a cute, fun way to quickly show the process of making a morning cup of coffee. I like the cartoon-y look and feel to it and the repetition of the same shape to make just about the entire clip. Pizza I found this to be silly and fun, if only we could cook and eat that many different kinds of pizza that easily! Chairs I liked this GIF because of it's opposition and the realistic look of every single piece making up and breaking down the chair. Control Room This one is super busy and hard to know where to look first, however, there was clearly a lot of work put into this to make it function! Mind Blown This is another silly one, but obviously super detailed and complex! Monster I loved this one because of the use of combinin

Since the two were created, there has always been some confusion on the difference between animation and motion graphics. Animation goes hand in hand with filmmaking while motion graphics is involved more with graphic design. No matter the differences, animated storytelling is all about planning. The three questions that should be asked before any animation is made are: " What is it? What does it look like? And what is it made of? " To help answer these questions, the animator must go through these three stages: Concept Development, Previsualization and Asset Building. The concept development stage should start by writing a creative brief. This brief should include what the project is, who it is for, how long it will be, its objective, a calendar with weekly milestones, etc. From there, the animator should spend some time writing down everything that comes to their mind about the topic of their story so they can circle the most important 4-5 words. A tagline should be crea