Motion Graphics
These projects not only explored how Motion Graphics creates moving images, but also explored how to create animations. Each project focused on how to make objects move and tell a story. These projects were from my 2D Animation class at Lansing Community College and Motion Graphics class at the University of Michigan-Flint.
“How To Draw Toothless the Dragon” Infographic (2025)
This project was to animate an infographic we made in another Image Design class, which would teach kids from roughly Elementary and Middle school age. For the infographic, I chose to design a step-by-step process of how to draw Toothless the Dragon’s head from the iconic franchise “How To Train Your Dragon”. I chose this design because not everyone can draw this famous reptile that stole many people’s hearts. The animation explores pacing of objects moving in the video and the design of the whole poster.
Kinetic Speech (2024)
This project explores using motion graphic tools to animate words and incorporating different fonts to emphasize the emotion conveyed by the audio speech. The audio was borrowed from the film, “How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” (2019). The scene was of little Hiccup, roughly 8 years old, asking his father Stoick about getting a new mom. The audio expresses pain, grief, but also love blended as we hear a heartfelt speech from his father, Stoick.
Calming
This project was back in my 2D Animation class where we practiced animating words with moving backgrounds. This explored how to pace the words, color scheme and describing what the word means to you.Motion and Meaning with Words Project (2023)
Snowfall
Fire