Digital Photography and Imaging : Week 14

22/12/2025 - 28/12/2025 (Week 14)

Chan Xin Yean, 0377851

Digital Photography and Imaging

Project 4 : Self-Tilted 



INSTRUCTIONS

Theme: Self-Titled


Self-titled is an exploration project for the students to express their own individuality and reflect their personality into digital art self-expression.

The main idea is to build up self-confidence and discover their interest.


There will be 3 parts of this project:


1. Part 1: Idea Development

    • Write a biography about yourself
    • Write a statement about your work
    • Search 3 moodboards that suits the style you're going for

2. Part 2: Design Direction

    • Create sketches of your mock up poster
    • Create digital posters based on your sketches - include progress shots

3. Part 3: Execution & Post Production

    • Import your Final Poster into After Effects
    • Develop the composition techniques using Digital Photography & Graphic Design
    • Animate your composition in After Effects
    • Include progress

4. Part 4: Submission

    • Include Poster as well as Artist's Statement
    • Include Video as well as Self Reflection
    • Include one (1) e-portfolio post including Artist's Statement & Self-Reflection
    • Submit 2 items in MS Teams:
      • Documentation in PPTX format
      • Final Output video in MP4 format

PROCESS WORK 

After I'm done with the poster I rasterised every layer and then moved the file to After Effects. 

Figure 1.0 Added psd file into After Effects - Week 14 (28/12/2025)

I started with doing the intro of the video, which wanted a cloud to move past the screen. Thus, I adjusted the scale of the top right corner cloud and moved the position of the clouds to last for a second and a half. 

Figure 1.1 Editing the intro with the clouds - Week 14 (28/12/2025)

I also did the clouds on the shoulders to move in at the intro. While throughout the video, I made the clouds move up and down to portray the flying feeling.

Figure 1.2 Editing the clouds on the shoulder - Week 14 (28/12/2025)

Then, I did the clouds beside the head to move up left and right too. At first there was animation for the clouds to move up and down but I realised it was too much movement for my liking.

Figure 1.3 Editing clouds behind the head - Week 14 (28/12/2025)

For the cloud on the top left, I also changed the position of it throughout the video.

Figure 1.4 Editing top left cloud - Week 14 (28/12/2025)

After that, I moved on with doing a glowing effect for the kintsugi as I wanted to emphasise on the cracks of the phase. I did the effects using the stylise presets and edited the glow intensity, radius and threshold for every 4 seconds to glow alternately.

Figure 1.5 Adding glowing effect - Week 14 (28/12/2025)

Then, I move on to edit the intro of the butterflies as I wanted them to appear from the garden. Thus, changed the scale to be smaller, the position of the butterfly and its opacity.

Figure 1.6 Editing the intro of the butterfly 

After that, I used puppet warp to edit the wings of. the butterfly to make them appear like they are fluttering.

Figure 1.7 Warping the wings of butterfly 

Next, I moved on with editing the rotations of the flowers and leaves as well as the scale for some as I want them to appear like its growing. I've also used the puppet warp to distort the yellow poppies to show some movement.

Figure 1.8 Animating the flowers and leaves

Lastly, I edited the watering can and the water droplets to rotate and move up and down and I've also puppet warped my hand along with the movement. After that I added background music and sound effects of the swooshing cloud at the intro to my video.

Figure 1.9 Animating the watering flowers process


Final Outcome

Link of the Video : https://youtube.com/shorts/lGSBZ2tsNyU


Figure 2.0 Final Video

REFLECTION

This week I moved on to the animation process of the project. As there were many layers to my composition, it was a hard time trying to find out which layer is which even though I labeled every layer in Photoshop, but in the end it took me some patience to complete the animation. It was fascinating to see the once static photo come into life and it was a good experience in applying what I learned during tutorials when doing the animation. I am quite satisfied with the final outcome of the video.

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