after effects – Shuling Yong

How to make GMOs

Vandana Shiva, noted environmentalist in 2007,... — Image via Wikipedia

I’m sure you’ve come across the words GMO or generically modified organism at some point, but what does it really mean? Is genetically modified food truly safe for consumption?

My dear friend Taylor McNulty’s been working on a documentary about genetically modified food in India and how it’s adversely affecting the farmers there. She had an amazing opportunity to work closely with a physicist and environmental activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, who created Navdanya, a movement to “protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially the native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade“.

To help us understand just how GMOs are made, Taylor asked me to create some simple animation to accompany Dr. Shiva’s explanation of the process. I agreed in a heartbeat. :) Check it out:

December 19, 2010 by yongshuling Categories: animation, My Work, Short Films, Social ChangeTags: after effects, animation, Biotechnology, food, Genetic engineering, genetically modified, GMO, india, navdanya, shuling, taylor mcnulty, vandana shiva 1 Comment

Learning Quest: Kinetic Typography

Since stepping out of college where life was such a hectic blur I couldn’t even tell you what movies were playing in the cinema that month, I’ve come to appreciate the little pockets of time I can now have with the TV as I cook my meals. I admit… I’ve developed a love for Supernanny, Ellen Degeneres and HGTV. But what I didn’t expect was developing the desire to recreate the various special effects that commercials were laden with. A question that often popped into my mind was “how’d they do that?” What sparked this fascination with motion graphics, i know not.

What I do know is that I shall teach myself to use After Effects beyond whatever basics i used for I Found A Tiny Starfish. First step… Kinetic Typography. A quick search on Youtube brought me enough examples (like this and this) to get my creative juices going. I love how easy it is to find video tutorials for almost anything online, just like this one by crookedgremlins.com:

Shall give it a shot while editing for Kartemquin the piece on the No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson sneak peek. We’ll see how it goes… :)

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February 12, 2010February 10, 2010 by yongshuling Categories: Learn Something New, Personal ReflectionTags: after effects, animation, crookedgremlins, Kartemquin, kinetic typography, motion graphics, tutorial Leave a comment

the lil’ showcase – animation

I truly enjoyed my 2D computer animation class last quarter. The assignment for this project was to animate a paragraph of text, so i picked a poem ‘I Found A Tiny Starfish’ by Dayle Ann Dodds. Fell in love with this poem the minute I read it almost 10 years ago.

Created using Adobe Photoshop & After Effects. Many thanks to Professor Debra Tolchinsky.

April 1, 2009December 13, 2009 by yongshuling Categories: animation, My Work, Short FilmsTags: after effects, alex tey, animation, dayle ann dodds, debra tolchinsky, i found a tiny starfish, northwestern, photoshop, rtvf, shuling 1 Comment

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