Appled Biological Materials

Marketing Assistant, Graphic Designer, Motion Graphics

Applied Biological Materials (abm) is a Canadian company, located in Richmond, BC, that is constantly on the lookout for the latest innovations for life science research and drug development. I did a four month co-op for them during Spring 2016. During the co-op, I had a chance to focuse designing new brochures and taking pictures for promotional proposes, animating, filmeing and editing promotional videos and assisting in production of new pages (including coding using PHP and HTML).

Videos I made

Editing Images on Website

An image I modified
An example of how I upgraded the images
An image I modified
Colours and frames are some of the major changes I made for the images on abm website.
An image I modified
Another example of how I modified the images

The Video Process

AfterEffect Animation
The final style of animation I decided to go to.
Working on plant ex-amp in Sony Vegas
I worked in sony vegas to edit the plant ex-amp.
AfterEffect animation
The initial style of animation I did but I was not happy with end results.
Working on plant ex-amp in AfterEffecrts
After finishing to edit in Sony Vegas, I used AfterEffects to add some animation.

Reflection

Doing a co-op at Applied Biological Materials has taught me quite a bit. It was the first time I was able to learn the skills I have used in a real work environment. I also became a stronger Motion Graphic designer and learned quite a bit about science. My biggest challenge was understanding the terms as I did not have a science background. I often had to do a research about those terms or ask my supervisors for a better clarification. Because I had another designer working alongside me, I found that we sometimes bounced ideas with each other in order to get better results and more creativity. When we didn’t do it, I was able to work on my own and explore myself as a designer.