When it came down to animating our infographic, we had already created several vectors to be used in the animation, some made it in and some didn’t make the final cut. We than began to piece all of the facts that we had found relevant to our infographic together in a coherent order and then began to make them visually interesting, we did this by using many online tutorials such as ones for kinetic text which were particularly helpful. We also used plenty of the animation skills that we had learnt in first year and took them further challenging ourselves and our skill. We created the kinetic text within our infographic by separating out each of the words in a particular fact and then paring them to a null object which we then key-framed the movements of and then animated through the timeline.
(an example of the kinetic text within our animation)
We managed to find a couple of plugins which aided us in animating such as ‘Sweet’ which helps to create transitions which we then took and personalised to our own animation, by delving deeper into the way it generated the transitions we learned how to create some of these for ourselves. Another plugin which helped us was called typemonkey which helped us to create some of the kinetic text within the animation, it was mainly to help speed up the process and was tweaked to suit our own design for the infographic.
We also decided we should change the colour scheme of the end of the animation in correlation with the subject, The Deep Web, the colour scheme needed to be much darker due to the topics we were talking about and so shifted to a much darker set of colours and much more toned down animations to get across the seriousness of the information.