Easy Making Fun Creations with Motion Graphic Animation
The key to making animated bumper videos is skillfully combining a variety of simple ornaments and work tools. Creativity and being diligent in looking at other animation references are also important.
That was suggested by Dwi Agus and Mudrik Slamet, two instructors at the Motion Graphic Workshop for UII Communication staff on Tuesday (16 February 2021).
This workshop, which is conducted with strict health protocols, is to hone the technical skills of staff to use various design applications with simple ornaments and features. “We are trying to design a video bumper by combining CorelDraw, Photoshop, and after effects applications,” said Dwi Agus, this Photoshop and CorelDraw specialist instructor. Dwi Agus has received many prestigious awards in film competitions. For example, he once won the # 1 Disability Film Festival film competition which specifically raised the issue of diffable advocacy.
Iskandar T. Gunawan, an expert filmmaker who is also a staff of the UII Communication Laboratory, added that the training which was held for two days was a routine activity of the study program. “The goal is to increase staff capacity. Especially because staff can use this expertise for their daily work as an editor for Uniicoms TV and content creators on department’s social media publication pages,” said Iskandar. The main focus of this training is on multimedia editing.
The key to creating animated bumper videos is skillfully combining a variety of simple ornaments and work tools. Creativity and being diligent in looking at other animation references are also important.
This training runs for two days from 16-17 February 2021. This motion graphics and video editing workshop produces various video bumpers for events on the Uniicoms TV channel. A bumper is an explanatory animation commonly used for the opening or closing of a video or film.
According to Dwi Agus, the steps needed are to collect materials. “Starting with where to look for the photos, which typography, broadcast time, what elements we need to use. They are collected in one folder so that it is easy to organize and use in design software,” Dwi said.
“For typography and the particles use Corel. Meanwhile, photo editing uses Photoshop. Then, together with Mudrik, an animation specialist, we put the materials that have been designed in Corel and Photoshop we put them in Adobe After Effects,” Dwi added.
“Only then will we move the elements and design elements with the animated features provided by Adobe After Effects,” said Mudrik, another instructor.
Zarkoni, one of the staff, said that uniicoms TV staff and crew are more capable of using Adobe Premiere. Meanwhile, animation making has not been thoroughly studied. So this training found its urgency in order to improve skills as well as the quality of content on the Uniicoms TV channel, as UII Communications’ Online TV and the first at UII.
