Disperse

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This is by far my favorite animation, i think it works really well. It took me a while to do it because i had to cut the word into squares before hand and then animate them individually. I spoke to Mike Flower and he said that I could have used an effect to do it for me, but i chose to animate the 132 squares individually because it gave it more of an natural feel and i was in complete control of the sequence which is what i needed to be in order for it to work. The whole design at the beginning could do with being more joined instead of the occasional white gap between the letters but apart from that i think the whole sequence works really well and I like the concept. I am really enjoying working with Disperse it is giving me a lot more to work with. 

Disperse it.

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D - Disperse again

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I edited my last video changing the opacity on the squares. I defiantly think the this works better, instead of it just being stuck on the screen. The screen actually clears and i think that this would work with the whole letter. I am going to try it with the whole letter next to clearly see how it would work. I was also thinking about looking into the perspective once i have this nailed so that i can then make the squares move bigger of the page, just like the Hulu opening sequence i looked at.

D - Disperse practice

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Following our latest workshop in After Effects, i decided to try and apply what i have learnt to edit the words to fit what i am doing. I spoke to Mike about how i could possibly break up a word and he said to apply the selection tool to the letter and break it up on photoshop. So i decided to do this and then animate it in After effects using what we had learned. I only animated a small part of the letter as a trail to see how effective it would actually be. The squares when they break up are not all the same size which i think i would defiantly need to change, so that they were continuos. Another thing is when they all disperse i was trying to get them to go off the page, but instead they clumped at the side so i think that the next stage would be to change the opacity on the squares so that not only do they disperse as i designed them to but they would actually fade out of the sequence instead of remaining on the page.

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