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Day 2 – Lightbulb

01.23.2017 by Hayley Rollason //

I thought Day 1 was hard to find inspiration for this #15minmograph challenge. This time I had to go searching for assets before anything even came to mind. Then I had a lightbulb moment (see what I did there).

I knew I wanted to play with different ways of applying textures to a piece. I got my hands on a slate texture and a light bulb graphic from Pixabay, dumped a few keyframes on the vector assets and then started playing with the texture layer. Adding grades and effects to contrast and harshen it, and then playing with the blend modes on each layer before timer went and it was pencils down. Texture effects is a tool I commonly forget to play with in client work and I think this small task has probably brought it back to me as a go-to effect for giving vector animation a great organic feel.

Voila…

Day 1 – The eye

01.22.2017 by Hayley Rollason //

So here we are Day 1 of the #15minmograph challenge and I had no idea what to do. I foresee this becoming a pattern, keen as a bean but no ideas to speak of. I figured I would just open up Coolors.co (this is where I am building my colour palette for each day), pick some colours, open After Effects and hope inspiration would hit somewhere along the way.

At this stage of the challenge, I have no idea what I can accomplish in 15 mins so I don’t know how simple or ambitious I can be. Finally, after about 5 mins of ticking timer and adding a solid layer, I figured I would just build an eye. With simple shape layers and masks, looping some keyframes and toying with the value graphs I was able to do it. The timer went off with just one more graph untouched so I left it. This isn’t about being perfect, in fact, it is quite the opposite, be messy, be quick and make something, so here it is, The Eye:

#15minmograph Challenge

01.21.2017 by Hayley Rollason //

So in the past week, I came across a little challenge – #15minmograph.

It all started in my School of Motion Alumni group, one member, Ryan Plummer, challenged himself to create something in 15 mins and posted the result. I was totally struck by the idea. I have wanted to create something daily, I even toyed with the idea of a vlog but I don’t necessarily want my personal business up online more than it is now and wanted something more motion design and animation based, as my love for the field is only growing. This was perfect. Even on my busiest day, how can I not find 15 mins to create something small and creative? And so, I joined in.

The rules are pretty simple and whilst on a couple of occasions, I have broken them, which I will go into more details about day-by-day, the restriction amps to the creativity.

I will try to maintain this daily for as long as possible, I won’t beat myself up if I don’t get to it or skip a day, but I will try and I will post the results here and on Instagram. Feel free to click through to the post going in-depth at each challenge day.

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