Scientific Visualization
This project is a great example taking an idea from concept to completion. Given the task to visually explain photosynthesis to a specific age group of students. I chose middle school as my target audience. I used Photoshop, Flash, After Effects and Audition to complete this animation
I created all of the graphics in Photoshop. I used Audition to record my young daughters voice narrating the script. Each voice clip was saved separately and everything was imported in to After Effects.
I started this project researching photosynthesis. After learning a bit more detail about the topic I started drawing up some storyboards. I wanted to get my story straight before deciding what graphics would be needed and how I was going to put them together to tell a story.
You can see to here in these images that the graphics were hand sketched and then scanned in to a computer. I think rough drafts in paper can help when brainstorming
Each scene is drawn out and I review the sketches to make sure all the steps for the process have been completed.
I begin creating the graphics in Photoshop.
This is a screenshot of the script I wrote to use for this project.
Everything was planned out before any recording or animating was created.
Planning for everything made a big difference when I was creating the final project.
This is a screenshot of one of many compositions for this project, you can see here how many layers this animation took. Within many layers were animations created with key frames and pre-installed effects.