michael hersrud - Motion Graphics & Title Sequence, Student Projects

Visual Narrative Title Sequence Nikko.

Hole In the Wall. Doha, Qatar is a hub for cultural diversity and what comes with that is the emergence of rich culinary history and culture. Having different kinds of culture and people across the globe in one place created a demand for food choices in the city. The influx of workers from developing countries made a market for hole in the wall restaurants. This low vernacular restaurants found around the city emerged from that. This inspired the use of low vernacular imagery and a very sketchy, often snapshots of restaurants and street photographs.

The Forebearance of a Blob by Amira Natsheh.

A sophomore level project introducing students to new technologies and using after effects for the first time. Throughout the course, students explored the concept of 'character design' using 2d vectors, hand-drawn images, time-based mediums, 3d printed materials, and product design.

Character Animation: Short Narrative.

Student project, senior elective, Maryam Al-Thani, Balloon

Touch Screen UI / App

Student project, junior year, Noof Al Binali, iHomie, a remote home monitoring system concept app specifically created for Qatari's while traveling abroad for long periods of time.

Visual Experimentations Project.

Student projects, senior elective, Al Dana Al-Khater

In Too Deep by Abdulla Alsada.

A sophomore level project introducing students to new technologies and using after effects for the first time. Throughout the course, students explored the concept of 'character design' using 2d vectors, hand-drawn images, time-based mediums, 3d printed materials, and product design.

Visual / Audio Experiments.

A series of of short animations sketches created by students in time-based design elective. The work was created in 1-2 week long 'sketches' and students explored 2d digital animation techniques and software to create audio visual experiences. The work explored graphical imagery, animated still imagery, typography and explored the use of effects and manipulation to create unexpected results.

Surrealism.

Senior project, time-based design elective, Catherine Chiuco, Surrealism. Throughout the semester Catherine explored the collision of surrealism, graphic design, animation and print making. She created several project made of 'Frankenstein' like parts that could be animated in unique surreal environments. This project was intended to simulate the print making studio during late night work sessions.

Dreamery.

Senior project, time-based design elective, Roda Al Thani, Dreamery. This project was created to support other projects as part of her senior thesis. Roda's senior thesis project investigated and collected dreams and subconscious wanderings. As part of her thesis, she explored a variety of media to translate these ideas. For this work, she explored the technique of rotoscoping, and hand-drew each frame of the animation, then used affects to duplicate, alter and loop the animations to create a dream-like mesmerizing experience. The animation was shown on a large screen during an exhibition.

Let Me Lose Myself.

Senior project, time-based design elective, Barbara Charrue, Let Me Lose Myself. An experimental motion graphic work that combines audio with visual, and filmed footage with graphical animation. Barbara wanted to explore dance and gestural movements as a way to create bizarre abstract graphic imagery that interacts with the space of the actual video.

Film Title Project.

Student project, junior year, Noor Al Thani, Never Endings (feature length animation that follows the life of young girl who grows up without a family, her adventures, successes, failures and in ability to find love.)

Film Title Project.

Student project, junior year, Hala Hamad, El Rawees (El Rawees is a light biography about the late Palestinian world renowned Dabkeh dancer Marwan Zaghmoot. The film discusses the Young dancer’s life starting with his wild childish ambitions of becoming the best dancer there could ever be. Growing up to only get shut down by cultural barriers set by his family and society.)

Parallax Project.

The first project in a graphic design visual narrative course. Students are asked to investigate 'narrative' and select three photographs to tell a story. The photographs represent a beginning, middle and end, but do not have to follow that order. Students are then asked to investigate ideas of diachronic and synchronic as visual story telling devices. The final outcome of the project is a series of 3-5 scenes that use multiple photographic images that have been 'animated' to create a surreal scene and tell a story. All the images in these projects are static images that have been dissected and reconstructed in photoshop and then animated using after effects.

The students work shown here is: Noor Al Thani, Mohammed Jawad, Ghada Al-Suwaidi, Mack Cortel and Aisha Al Thani

Parallax Project.

The first project in a graphic design visual narrative course. Students are asked to investigate 'narrative' and select three photographs to tell a story. The photographs represent a beginning, middle and end, but do not have to follow that order. Students are then asked to investigate ideas of diachronic and synchronic as visual story telling devices. The final outcome of the project is a series of 3-5 scenes that use multiple photographic images that have been 'animated' to create a surreal scene and tell a story. All the images in these projects are static images that have been dissected and reconstructed in photoshop and then animated using after effects.

The students work shown here is: Hazam Asif, Dana Chua, and Wurood Azzam

Animation-AmreenAhmedi.

A sophomore level project introducing students to new technologies and using after effects for the first time. Throughout the course, students explored the concept of 'character design' using 2d vectors, hand-drawn images, time-based mediums, 3d printed materials, and product design.

Wakey Wakey by Eman.

A sophomore level project introducing students to new technologies and using after effects for the first time. Throughout the course, students explored the concept of 'character design' using 2d vectors, hand-drawn images, time-based mediums, 3d printed materials, and product design.

Panic Attack by Asma Hasan

A sophomore level project introducing students to new technologies and using after effects for the first time. Throughout the course, students explored the concept of 'character design' using 2d vectors, hand-drawn images, time-based mediums, 3d printed materials, and product design.

One Second Campaign Concepts.

Select work from a course project in 'Visual Narrative' co-taught with Law Alsobrook. For this project we collaborated with an external client for the Qatar Ministry of Interior (Traffic and Road Safety). Previously, I, along with a team of alumni students, worked on a campaign called 'One Second' to address road safety concerns in Qatar. The campaign has been running for 2+ plus years. We embedded the project into our course to help generate new ideas based on the campaign visual guidelines. Students were asked to look at specific topics, such as seat belt safety, reckless driving behaviors, fathers with children, and young Qatari males.

Film Title Project.

Student project, junior year, Sara Al Kuwari, Metamorphosis (documentary about changes in Qatar from fishing and pearl society relying on the ocean to oil and gas).

Collaboration Project: Narrative / Client.

Student project, junior year, Leila Natsheh, Dawood Anwari, Tariq Spence, Gathering the Tide, book trailer for a book launch event and promotion.

Systems in Design: Awareness Campaign.

Student project, junior year, Hala Hamad, Eat Ethnic campaign.

Systems in Design: Awareness Campaign.

Student project, junior year, Mack Cortel, I Am Over Ordinary campaign.

Visual Narrative Title Sequence Dana.

The title sequence is for a long time running documentary called 'Poems for Edda' which talks about Norse Mythology. The t.v show is weekly with every episode running for 1 hour.Every week the show talks about one specific topic within the mythology.

Film Title Project.

Student project, junior year, Ghada Al-Suwaidi, The Former (A feature length documentary film about Qatari cultural heritage and the changing physical landscape of the country. Where have the historic sits gone? What will the country look like in 100 years? What is the past?)

Visualizing Sound: Visitor Rainy Dusk.

Student project, junior year, Al Hussein Wanas.

Visualizing Sound Project.

Student project, junior year, Hamza Abdel'al, Places.