Week 5 exercise

Week 5 exercise: Chart on After Effect

Week 3 exercise: Good/bad infographic

In today exercise, we are require to find a group of two, select a question our lecturer provide us and to find and examine which infographic is good and which one is bad. Our group select "chart" as our question.

The good example of info chart

Clear information. The different color cups represent different drink, using the picture of cup, by looking the picture of cup we know it is about drink. Its easy, simple and clear to understand.

The bad example of info chart

It call essential communication, but there is no main topic, and no specific direction of the chart. Too much information, too many arrows, no definition for each icon, easily get lost while reading the chart.

Group member: Leong Xiao Rui, Lim Kee Wei

Exercise 2 complete

Here is the quick video using after effect to make, a very basic video

First time using After Effect

In today exercise, our lecturer, Mr Hafiz, teach us how to use After Effect. Since this is the first time we use After Effect, some of us is a little bit confuse, some of us learn it very fast. As for me, I still need to practice a little bit more. It is not hard actually, but since there are so many option, even more then photoshop, it will somehow confuse people.

Our lecturer give us a lego psd file for exercise, he want us to import it to after effect. A quick way to import is by clicking the side box (shown in the red box)

After that, pull the file to the bottom, and the picture will show in the white box

At the bottom, the right box is the timeline, we can edit the time line for each layer so they can show up/vanish following the time.

Notice the image slowly appear when the time advance.

He also teach us how to use the "position", it can make the image moving around, like an animation.

Monday, 2 Setember 2013 Lecture and Exercise

Today class we learn about what is infography.

This is an example of infography that our lecturer show us:

An infography is a way to telling information using visual image instead of words, it make the 

information more interesting. We collect the data, sorted it out, arranged and finally presented visually.

Our lecturer also said that infography need to be clean.

Some designer use a lot of color to attract the viewer. Like the map for the subway station. It is clean 

and informative.

Exercise 1

In today exercise, we need to find certain example for the infography. They are Spatial, 

Chronological, Quantitative.

Spatial:

Information that describes relative positions and the spatial relationships in a physical or conceptual 

location.

Author: Brafton.com 

http://www.brafton.com/business-model/infographic-marketing

Author: Lim Kee Wei

Chronological:

Information that describe sequential positions and the causal relationships in a physical conceptual 

timeline

Author: ConceptDraw, visual.ly

http://visual.ly/chronology-social-networks

Author: Lim Kee Wei

Quantitative:

Information that describe scale, proportion, change and organization of quantities in space, time or 

both. Amount comparison

Author: Peter, BurgerBusiness.com

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/?p=11301

Author: Lim Kee Wei

Starting

Hi, this is my other blog for the Information Design, one of the module for my course, Graphic Communication Design. Mr Hafiz, the lecturer for Illustration and Visual Narrative module is the lecturer for this module.

In this module, we will use the After Effect software. This is actually the first time I use After Effect software and still have a lot to learn. Also, we will learn about the infography design.