quarantine – Hannah Koo

Webinar #2 Kriota Willburg: Advanced Strategies in Illustration

APR 2 THU / WEBINAR : Kriota Willburg: Advanced Strategies in Illustration

This webinar was offered by illustration class at City Tech and was held on Zoom. Professor Sarah Wooley was the host and most of the crowd was her students so even though it was a webinar, it felt more intimate and students were actually able to speak to Kriota with video face to face.

Kriota Willburg was invited to speak about advanced strategies in Illustration. Even though I’m not an illustrator, this webinar was very interesting because she gave me a great insight that penetrates any types of creative job.

“Find a career path that parallels your artistic creative practice”
said Kriota. She is an illustrator/massage therapist/educator. Her illustrations specialize in human and animal anatomy. So she has three different jobs that all involves anatomy. I also have clustered majors and interests and this webinar was very helpful.

WEBINAR #1 Teela : Animation Basics with Procreate Watercolours

APR 2 THU / WEBINAR : Teela : Animation Basics with Procreate Watercolours

How I found/got in this webinar.
During the crisis of Covid19, a lot of professionals and organizations started offering webinars via emails. One of the calligraphy artists I follow, Teela Cunningham emailed subscribers that she will have a webinar about how to create an animation using Procreate. Since I’m a motion graphic major, have a huge interest in calligraphy and just recently purchased Procreate, I signed up for a seat.

How it works
After signing up, I received a confirmation email and link to the webinar held on CrowdCast. It was my first time attending a webinar but I loved it. It was easier to hear and see what the speaker was presenting and also asking a question on the chat was more convenient than waiting until the end of the speech and raising my hand etc.

Male host was the first one who started speaking on the screen. He introduced Teela on a dual screen and started asking her what she will be teaching us and he read the comments from the chat and asked the speaker. There were about 3000 people watching it from various states and countries.

What was it about
Teela runs a website that offers a lot of free/premium tutorials and graphic design freebies. She showed how to create an animation step by step that will showcase your typography skills strongly on social media such as Instagram.

Webinar was definitely different from online tutorials
Overall the experience was very delightful and convenient, especially because of quarantine. I haven’t been able to go out and mingle with people, and the webinar felt like I was actually sitting amongst people which felt pretty good. I did purchase Procreate but wasn’t sure how to utilize it so It was very helpful too. I think I will attend more webinars more often.

Day #10 Completed Animated Guide for Distance Learning

MAR 30 Mon / INTERNSHIP JOURNAL : Completed Animated Guide for Distance Learning

I have finished synchronizing royalty free music with the animation I worked on last Thursday.
The duration of the video is 55 seconds. 1:1 square ratio 600x600px.
and.. Of course I have a typo! I’m going to have to fix that next time.

I tried to make this animated guide as delightful as possible because people are already stressed and scared. As a student I also follow a lot of official school accounts for info. I’m glad that I can provide fellow students useful information for this crisis.

Day #9 Making animated guidelines for distance learning

MAR 26 Thu / INTERNSHIP JOURNAL : Making animated guidelines for distance learning

I added animation to graphics using After Effects today, and finished 1:1 ratio 600*600px version.

I’m thinking of adding a royalty free soundtrack I found on Youtube. I’ll be finishing up adding music to the video next Monday.

I designed and organized all elements statically on Photoshop to begin with. It made things visually organized and pleasing but I realized it might be inefficient work flow in terms of adding animation.

→ Link to the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssvu2yncgWU&list=PLmlVf74tLsDNNvo_JlC14yIMM7TUBew63&index=141&t=0s

Day #8 First Remote Working

MAR 23 Mon / INTERNSHIP JOURNAL : First Remote Working

Today, I worked remotely for the first time. Firstly, I checked in via email and asked Professor Vargas what I need to do today, and my tasks ware as below:

Today’s task
– Go to the @CityTechSGA on Instagram and look at the post circled.
– Start creating an animation for each slide
– Formatted for IG, Facebook, and Twitter.

So I did research for video formats on each social media as below:

Facebook format

- - Recommended size: 1280 by 720 pixels.
  - Minimum size, landscape video: 600 by 315 pixels (1.9:1 aspect ratio)
  - Minimum size, square video: 600 by 600 pixels (1:1 aspect ratio)
  - Recommended specs: .MP4 or .MOV format, maximum file size 4GB, maximum length 120 min, maximum frame rate 30fps.

IG formatt

- - Square video: 600 by 600 pixels (1:1 aspect ratio)
  - Horizontal video: 600 by 315 pixels (1.9:1 aspect ratio)
  - Vertical video: 600 by 750 pixels (4:5 aspect ratio)
  - Recommended specs: .MP4 or .MOV format, maximum file size 4GB, maximum length 60 seconds, maximum frame rate 30fps.

Twitter

- - Minimum resolution: 32 x 32.
  - Maximum resolution: 1920 x 1200 (and 1200 x 1900)
  - Aspect ratios: 1:2.39 – 2.39:1 range (inclusive)
  - Maximum frame rate: 40 fps.
  - Maximum bitrate: 25 Mbps.

PROCESS

I finished creating graphic elements for animation using photography from unsplash.com and typography in Photoshop.

I also created AE project file and will be making 2 versions next time.
- 1:1 ratio Square – IG/FB Feed
- 9:16 ratio Full Vertical – IG stories and Facebook Feed

Day #7 First Online Conference via Zoom

MAR 19 Thu / INTERNSHIP JOURNAL : First Online Conference via Zoom

Because of crisis of Covid 19, schools and companies are switching to distance work/class. Office of image and visual communications also had a meeting on Zoom to figure things out.

We discussed working remotely and decided interns will check in and out via email. We also discussed what the problems are having online classes, and what students need.

Professor Vargas told us that we will drop the new building and fitness center promotion project and most likely we’ll be making thumbnails to guide City Tech student through Social media account.

Tag: quarantine

Webinar #2 Kriota Willburg: Advanced Strategies in Illustration

Day #10 Completed Animated Guide for Distance Learning

Day #9 Making animated guidelines for distance learning

Day #8 First Remote Working

Day #7 First Online Conference via Zoom

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