Using Muse and After Effects

Week 3

For the first time in my life I used Adobe Muse and I was really excited to do so! Before that I always planted my designs in Adobe Photoshop and translated those into HTML and CSS with the help of Adobe Dreamweaver or other programming software. This is a bit inconvenient and also requires programming knowledge. Not so in Muse. Being already familiar with the Adobe products, the operating with the software was quite intuitive and easy for me. You don't need to have any programming skills, you can just start to make your design as you wish it should look like. Muse is doing the rest and "translates" everything in the background, so you have an immediate interactive site after the principle "what you see is what you get". It gets a bit more difficult when you want to customize certain "modules" that are pre-designed by the software. But after engaging with it for a while I found everything I wanted to find and adapted it to my conception. To not just have an experiment or "test site", I already implemented space to present my project ideas there. Here are two screenshots of my result - from the home site and a sub site, representing the description of my ideas:

After having experimented with that we took a look at Adobe After Effects, that I - until that moment - was also unfamiliar with. By using it I noticed a strong similarity to Adobe Premiere, which I had worked with before to make some short films with animations. This also was quite nice to use therefore and I immediately decided to use it for the Valentine's garbage bag project I made before. At the moment I'm thinking about implementing this in one of my ideas I've already mentioned. I will write about that more specifically in another post. Here is a screenshot from my first work with After Effects: