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How will your logo move? What will change over time? How will it capture the viewer's attention and make people understand a bit about your company?
The technical part of this assignment is to use the pen tool accurately to replicate your drawing or create it from scratch and learn how to animate filters.
Vectorization (computer graphics), the process of converting raster graphics into vector graphics (shapes & vertices).



Learn about the pen tool here and how to create and control smooth curves with it.
Read about blending modes here.
Read about filters here.

The student created logos below were hand drawn on paper, digitized (scanned), vectorized, and finally animated in Flash.

Bakhaya, Ziad

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Martin, Danny

Earle, Stephanie

Carrasco, Brittany

Christenson, Brian

Castillo, Joseph

Luu, Jivan

Custer, Thomas

Barrera Gabe

Edwards, Jace

Gamblin,Nikki

Scoggin, Zac

McCalley, Kylee

Dossat, Megan

Coats, Shannon

Kindred, Nick

Cousins, AJ

Michael-Emily

Nguyen, David

Penn Marshal

Retkowski, Michael

 

Trey Sanchez

 

Follow handout to prepare your logo for animating.
Follow this handout to animate your filters.

 

Criteria

Logo should be all original and look clean and neat (professional).
All symbols should be labeled appropriately.
Original drawn logo should be in your library to compare it to the vector version.
Logo should be created with the pen tool consisting of smooth curves, not straight line segments.
Two or more animated filters should be used!
Animation should smoothly loop infinitely without twitches.
Assignment should be saved to the Z:drive in the appropriate folders as a .fla and .swf.

Save it to the proper period "Logos" folder in the Z:drive (Time Capsule) and to your portfolio as a .fla and .swf.

 

Watching this video is optional. It shows how to animate after the logo has been completely converted into vector format using a masking technique.