For my particle assignment, I created a little title shot for CafePalm (me!). It's actually modeled after a videocopilot.net tutorial (which if you haven't been to that site, you NEED to) but I made a couple of tweaks here and there to get what I wanted.
I used Trapcode's Particular to generate the particles for this assignment and created sand-like dust to help bring the title in and out. Poof! There it is. Whoosh! There it goes!
I'm pleased on how it turned out and really excited that I got to work with particles and some expressions. Enjoy!
For my motion tracking assignment, I also wanted to create some examples for the sports (in this case, basketball) highlight and recruitment reels I'm working on with my dad and his M5 Digital Studios. He asked me if I could come up with some examples on bringing the focus of the recruiter's attention to the highlighted player so they don't get lost or confused while looking at the shots.
I created three different examples, however they're all using the same highlight clip. To make them, I just motion tracked the main player. The automatic tracker got a alittle confused when the other players started jumping in the way, but I simply re-adjusted the track and kept going.
Which one do you guys like best? Personally, I think the arrow one looks kinda silly, but I think the other two are fairly effective.
Mi dispiace! It's been a while! Many various school projects/my frustrating perfectionism aren't exactly the two most creatively compatible things in the world. Obviously my creative blocks have been listening to a little Keri Hilson because they "just get back up, when I knock them down"....rude.
Anyway, here's my follow up example of 3D space in AfterEffects. I had something a little more extravagant planned but I just couldn't get it right. It was getting to the point where I was just thinking in circles and not actually producing anything. But, fortunately, I think this as helped unblock the creative flow. It better! I'm running out of semester time!
The scene is pretty simple. In contrast to my nighttime posts, this one takes place in the day but still up in the sky. I drew everything in Photoshop first (I love the way the clouds turned out) then brought the cropped layers into AfterEffects and positioned them in 3D space. The kite text is just a recorded sketch. I wanted to simulate reality with the sky, so as the camera flies out, the clouds furthest in the distance fade out.
It needs to be longer, but I think it works! The music really made the difference. Enjoy!
Here's my intro to 3D assignment. I used the layers I created for the first Nighttime video, put them all in the 3D format in After Effects, then added both a camera and light movement.
Again, I'm not that impressed. I think it is just my photoshop drawings. They aren't too exciting. I was surprised how hard it was to move the camera around. I never did get it quite right. Oh well. This was just a test shot. I have something MUCH bigger and better for the final 3D project.
Here's my mask and shape assignment. I'm sorry it took so long, but I was having a major creative block. For the life of me, I could NOT come up with an interesting way to use the mask tool. Then I did, but didn't film it right so I had to scrap it, and now I have this.
Ever had to share a bathroom with a sibling or two? Yeah, you know what the crowded mirror is...
I actually used a green screen to film myself (the one in the red), used the keylight matte effect to key out the green, and then placed it on top of the one I filmed of the blue me. The color tone didn't match up at all for some reason, though. The one in red was VERY warm and the one in the blue was kinda cool. So, I used an adjustment layer (only over the blue "me") to color correct and make them look like they are somewhat in the same place.
