EOC 1 My Voice

My name is Ian Galdamez. I’m currently attending the Art Institutes in Las Vegas, Nevada to pursue my Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. Visual Effects and Motion Graphics in simple terms is pretty much creating your own backgrounds and animated worlds. They are both equal but perform their own tasks and have their own specified job to do. Visual Effects takes actual photos or videos and try to mix up the background with engineered imagery. In simple terms you can take the city of Vegas, put a normal sunny day and turn the entire city into a snow valley also adding to that you can give a running video and change up the picture to something else like give it bright happy look or give a suspenseful dull as in moody scenery. That is what adds to amazement for Visual effects. It is making an image or video seem much more appealing and giving it something to live up for besides just the image. It is all based on the picture of a film or the video. Motion Graphics focuses on logos and writing, you can take a regular font and get creative and make it something unique like create a font for something like a happy fun time show or create a font for a creepy place or movie and make it suit the title. Logos also have potential for the title of the movie. It gives its identity for the movie and title because nobody wants a dull simple title, they want a logo that can catch your attention, and surprise you. It’s all about being creative and doing something new. The commercials we see for movies in my opinion are about capturing your attention to the film and it’s the scenery and atmosphere of the movie that does it. You can thank Visual Effects for the scenery of the movie and motion graphics for the title and anything else based on it. Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. Terms and definitions here: www.agencypost.com/visual-effects-vfx-vs-motion-graphics/. Something new appeared from the VFX news also I found out out about it. A new kind of engine for VFX called Monster Gt is proclaimed to be one of a kind, fast, and remarkable for their graphics and design. The effects that comes from the engine are the ability to stylize the effects such as nightvision or brush. The feature to warp and distort the visual effects. For background or specialized effects, Gt includes fluid particles and dynamics such as fire, rain, puddles, smoke, snow, and etc. Site here for terms and insight on the Monster Gt Engine: http://www.genarts.com/software/monsters-gt/overview

Visual effects and motion graphics today is used in our everyday lives. It is everywhere from our TVs, our game systems, our phones, our city lifestyle and anything in between. It’s what gives our blockbuster movies such an amazing picture and the great design that is used for it. Same goes for TV, our TV are redefined and renewed with new shows with stunning graphics and great atmosphere added to the show and in the episodes. Visual effects and motion graphics shape our society to how it is. It reshapes our culture for entertainment. Personally for me I like to enjoy on what comes out of it. Being able to make the image much more phenomenal than it seems with just some changes.