Animated Info-graph

https://www.columnfivemedia.com/infographic

ARTEFACT BRIEF:

Infographics are graphical visuals represented in a way to show any information, data, or knowledge in a clear, quick, and direct way. Infographics are supposed to enhance the viewer to catch on and spot patterns and trends faster.

Using Adobe After Effects + Illustrator learnt on data visualization, you should create a 45 seconds animated infographic. The data must be sourced and then translated into visuals. This is not simply a video of facts, but a way you can tell a story through data. This should be rendered as a web quality .mp4 file.

K H 1 0 2 5 M A P A

A R T E F A C T O N E

Assistant Lecturer: Nour Labib

Submission Date: Thursday, March 4th , 2021

TO DO:

Step 1 – Pick a topic and find your data

Decide on a topic, issue, or idea you want to address. Research about the topic and figure out who this

infographic is mainly targeted to and who are those impacted by your topic, issue, or idea. Decide on the

direction you want to tell your story with and gather all the information/statistics or content you need

to build your argument.

Note down and refer to all the inspiration videos you see and mention these bits in your journal.

Step 2 – Create your story, script, and storyboard

Breakdown the content you have gathered into points and start plotting your story. Create a script for

your idea that covers what information you want to be addressing vocally. After that, create a voice over

(up to 45 seconds) and start building the visual information that goes with the information being

addressed vocally, by creating a story board.

Start building your screens and gather all the vectors needed to create a digital version of your story

board. Lastly, point out which aspects you want to animate (have moving) in each screen created.

Step 3 – Create your digital screens and start animating

Implement your screens into artboards on adobe Illustrator and make sure you place all the

aspects/figures/vectors you’ll be moving into separate layers. Import these onto aftereffects and start

animating!

Artefact Checkpoints:

Checkpoint 1:

Submission date: Tuesday, 23rd of February

- Step 1 + 2 ready and finalized - Script - Story boards

Checkpoint 2:

Final feedback on project.

Date: Tuesday, 2nd of March

- Your project should be finalized, and we should be working on the final tweaks.

Final Submission:

Date: Thursday, 4th of March

- Final infographic: exported to H.264 - QuickTime - Updated script - Updated story boards - Screenshot of timeline

Links to fun and important AE Infographic tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPkw_CPZVkk&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDCnw5NUyBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXxFT588k8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29L3JbgDii0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs-e-Y4aZ7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0amv44UwAwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM7WOMWoNLM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3UfBb23yR4

Links to download free .AI vectors and graphics:

https://www.freepik.com/home

https://www.vectorstock.com/free-vectors

https://www.vecteezy.com/

https://pngtree.com/free-vectors