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Based on various projects that I have here, clearly I like Star Wars. Following this fact, I was inspired to create some stickers for myself inspired by both Star Wars and the vintage NASA Apollo mission patches from the 1960s and 1970s. I realized the obvious correlation between the two (the Apollo missions and Star Wars both being related to space exploration) and felt the need to create the designs under the motion graphics videos above the two circle designs. I followed the simple and modern design the NASA patches used as well as some of the graphic styles and fonts utilized at the time. After having finished the patch inspired designs I decided to bring motion into the design, as I already had every layer separated, ready in Illustrator and would be easily brought into After Effects for animation. The first video ,featuring the star destroyer, I decided to give the classic motion of the Star Destroyers exiting hyperspace seen in the Star Wars films. I had to figure out how to replicate the motion the Star Destroyers move in when exiting hyperspace as they appear to suddenly stop and slowly come into motion after this flight pattern. In order to do this I studied and went over videos of the film featuring the Star Destroyers' motion frame by frame and I feel I successfully replicated a similar motion in my motion graphics animation of my illustration. I approached the motion graphics video of the Millennium Falcon in a more cartoon-ish way of movement. I imagined someone is taking a joy ride in the star ship and animated it zipping in and out and around the edges of the video. In order to give the video an added dimension, I added stars in the background, middle and foreground around the ship. I placed the stars at various depths in the composition in order to use the depth of field of the virtual camera and focus on the ship coming to a skid/stop at the end of the video.
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These 2 videos are a sample of the many motion graphics posts I created during the time that worked for La Monarca Bakery as their Social Media Content Coordinator. I created many posts like these, along with store signage, product packaging, photography, videography and other graphic designs for the company. The first video on the left side was created to post on Thanksgiving with a cute little moving turkey formed from a concha (Mexican sweet bread). The second video on the right side also includes conchas (a major part of their sales in their bakeries was the conchas and thus they are in a major of the designs) and was created in celebration of Christmas as a part of the Mexican Christmas celebration often includes the sweet bread, breaking piñatas and the use of poinsettias as decoration. Many of the designs I created for them (these included) had this sort of craft paper feel and background in order to emulate the voice and branding of the bakery. They often wanted to showcase their use of natural ingredients and scratch made products and so they wanted to have designs that felt natural, hence the use of muted colors and craft paper textures.
