Information Design - Project 01: Instructable Infographics Poster & Animated Infographic

27.01.2023 - 28.02.2023 (Week 3 - Week 8)
Sheryl Pang Pui San / 0349746
Information Design / Bachelor of Design (HONS) in Creative Media
Project 01: Instructable Infographic Poster & Animated Infographic

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INSTRUCTIONS

Figure 1.1 Module Information Booklet

Figure 1.2 Exercise & Assignment Brief

Project 01 is an individual assignment which student are required to create an infographic poster for one recipe selected from Pasta Grannies account in youtube. 

Poster size: 1240 × 1750 pixels or 2048 × 2048 pixels

Use the assets from the instructable infographic poster to create a motion graphic video. 

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PROJECT 01: INSTRUCTABLE INFOGRAPHIC

INFOGRAPHIC POSTER

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Choosing and Breaking down the recipe

I've chosen to make the infographic poster about this meat filling ravioli that I discovered from Pasta Grannies youtube channel. 

Figure 2.1 Recipe video by Pasta Grannies

After studying about the video, I breakdown recipe by listing out the ingredient needed for making the meat filling, meat sauce and pasta. I've also chunk the preparation and cooking process into steps. 

Figure 2.2 Recipe Video Breakdown with Ingredient and Steps (Week 4, 3/2/20223)

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INSPIRATION

Figure 2.3 Recipe Infographic from Pinterest

Figure 2.4 Recipe Infographic from Pinterest

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Sketches

Figure 2.5 Rough sketch on the layout of poster (Week 4, 3/2/2023) 

Figure 2.6 Rough sketches of assets (Week 4, 3/2/2023)

Figure 2.7 Sketches of Layout with Assets ( Week 4, 3/2/2023)

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Making of Assets

Figure 3.1 Layers in Adobe Illustrator (Week 5, 12/2/2023)

Figure 3.2 Compilation of Assets in PNG (Week 7, 25/2/2023)

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Draft Poster

Figure 3.3 & 3.4 Draft Poster 1&2 (Week 6, 15/2/2023 & Week 7, 20/2/2023)

I've removed the background drawing below because it makes the font looks unclear and replaced it with a yellow background. Adjusted some of the placement and refinement the assets. From the second draft, I made the last step, no.10 bigger and enlarged the elements as the final version of the Instructable Infographic Poster submission below. 

FINAL OUTCOME

Figure 3.5 Final Instructable Infographic Poster in JPG (Week 7, 20/2/2023)

Figure 3.6 Final Instructable Poster in PDF (Week 7, 20/2/2023)

ANIMATED INFOGRAPHICS

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Seperating Assets into Layers

Figure 4.1 Seperating Layers ready for animtion (Week 7, 23/2/2023)

I seperate the layers from using the assets in the Instructable Poster and added in subtitles when needed. After seperating the layers, I move on exporting the layers to After Effect for the animation.

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Draft Animation

Figure 4.2 Draft Animation (Week 7, 25/2/2023)

Background music used: https://www.chosic.com/download-audio/46518/

After sending the draft animation to Mr.Hafiz and Mr.Martin, I've made some of the changes to the animation according to the feedback given. 

Changes made: 

Reduces type of font used in first frame, added in the missing asset of the beef and pork mince and quantity indication of ingredient, adjusted the transitions for the overlapping frames, Adjust timing so that the animation does not seem too rush and align the timing for the ingredient and text to appear together. 

Figure 4.3 Final Animated Infographics (Week 8, 28/2/2023)

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FEEDBACK

Instructable Poster
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Mr. Hafiz told me to focus on conveying information before moving on deciding the layout of the poster. The first draft poster bottom background seems unclear and used up more space than needed. He commented to save the space and enlarge the infographics and emphasize the important information.

The second draft looks better but the instructions could be bigger. 

Animated Infographics
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Feedback for the draft animation 

From Mr. Martin:

- Long text at the caption is hard to read

- Pay attention to overlapping during transition from one frame to another

- Video timing seems rush, but should fix the problems mentioned above first

From Mr.Hafiz: 

- Too much fonts used in the first frame

- Words and ingredient should appear at the same time

- No quantity indicated for the amount of veges needed to be fry

- Timing too brief and hectic

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REFLECTION

Doing the recipe infographic is actually really fun, It makes me want to try to make the ravioli myself when this semester ends. Transfering the assets from the instructable poster to different layers for animation actually took more longer that I thought it would be. 

I've learnt that I should organize and name my layers in the beginning when doing the illustrations not adjusting them one by one after everything was done. I was more familiar with using After Effects in doing this project and I've also searched for some transition tutorial to follow for doing my draft animation but I did not realised that there was a lot of overlapping when going from one frame to another one. 

It was hard for me to refine the animation because when I adjust the timing for one frame, the other frame would also be affected, causing overlap and change in animation. Maybe there is a shortcut in making the layer stays longer while keeping the keyframes at the same place and same pace but I could not figure it out when refining my animation.