I received
test assignment
of three tasks:
1. video development with animation without understanding what the content will be, the structure of the entire animation
2. sticker design without samples without samples
3. booklet design without samples.
For the second assignment with a sticker, there were no examples in the assignment, I asked separately and they gave me examples.
For the third assignment with a vertical A5 booklet, there were no examples in the assignment, I asked separately and they gave me examples.
I asked the recruiter questions about the video, the sticker, and the booklets. I was not familiar with the company's information, I did not study their website, and I needed time to study all the company's pages and products in order to understand well what information should be displayed in the video, in the sticker, in the booklet.
I clarified in detail with the recruiter what content should be in the animation, how many slides.
The recruiter gave me additional examples:
video work of the other designer, who thought about content, images, icons. I decided to improve the design of this example and make the animation as I see it.
I made the animation following the example, I had no graphics and I created all the graphics for the slides, icons anew, I found images on the site, improved them, and generated new ones for some images that I could not find.
I received separate examples of the sticker (an example of a sticker)
and booklet (example from the booklet).
Since there was little time for the development of all tasks (no more than 24 hours), I did not create an animation in 3D, I made 2D layers in Photoshop with imitation of 3D round blocks with images and three-dimensional faces with gradients.
In this animation, the design is very important, and the side faces in these blocks must be beautiful, otherwise the entire animation becomes secondary if the design itself is not worked out correctly.
Therefore, for the first time, I paid attention to the design of these blocks in curves, imitating 3d blocks in 2d.
Another designer did not make these edges beautiful, and it is clear that his video has dirty defects, although the animation is done correctly.
Then I did all the animation in After Effects without rotating objects in 3D, as in the reference video of the lesson.
It took me 32 hours to complete these three tasks.
I did not fit in the limited time of 24 hours in the task. I also initially asked the recruiter additional questions about all three tasks, and she gave me additional materials and comments.
There were no samples of materials in the tasks, there were no source icons, photos, I restored them myself.
In addition, I clarified all the details with the recruiter for each task, and the recruiter was looking for materials that were examples of content for the video and examples of work on stickers, booklets that were previously in the company.
The recruiter sent me an example of a second designer's video that he did.
After the recruiter sent me additional materials, I understood the essence of all tasks and their complexity, since the tasks initially did not make it clear what content was needed in the video, stickers, booklet due to the lack of understanding of the structure and complexity of the design.
In the assignments, there was only one example of another company's video as motion design of objects.
But since the requirements of the vacancy did not require making a 3D scene with animations, I did not make this animation in 3D, but created a video in Photoshop in 2D and animated it in After Effects.
I generated the sticker and booklet images in ComfyUI and edited them in Photoshop.
