Branding by Emmanuel Acevedo

Climate Change: Climate change is a very serious problem, it's when the temperatures of the planet rise due to various factors such as humans burning fossil fuels in factories or from their cars, the gases from the burning of fossil fuels get trapped in the Earth's atmosphere causing the rise in temperatures. There have been many methods to try and mitigate this ongoing issue such as legislation being passed most notably the Paris Climate Accords. Racial Discrimination: Racial discrimination is another critical issue, it can happen with anyone no matter if you're Hispanic, Black, Asian, or Indigenous. The US has had the most problems with racial discrimination such as Jim Crow Laws in the southern states stripping Black people of their rights that they just gained with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, or Asian people being attacked for "spreading COVID" even though any human being can spread a virus, Many movements have pushed for legislation to end discrimina...

This project was kind of easy, I used basic transformation filters such as the Move, Rotation and Scaling filters, I also used a Time warp filter on the box and the Avocado near the end of the animation, I also had utilized a Blur feature but for some reason it didn't save. Nonetheless I'm happy with what I've accomplished by using very little features that After Effects had to offer. If I were to go back to amend my work I would reimplement the blur feature.  Very little had changed from my original storyboard sketches, The idea was clear, and I knew exactly what to do. The only thing I changed from it was adding an Orange background that faded into Grey, the reason why I did this is because I wanted it to loop so after the Avocado zoomed into the seed, it would circle back to the orange background.  After we had that review where we looked at other classmate's work, I've added  a sizzle animation to the box and avocado before they left the frame, The blur feature ...