Monday, 19 November 2007
Machinia vs Frag Video
I found this really good video, which is of course a machinima made film, but ilustrating the few points, when it comes to ameatur film making, some people just film how 'elite' they are and 'awesome' they are. But they are just filming something to show off, but there si no actual plot or inteligience involved in them. Where as machinima involves many people working together to create a movie, all in digital and use of existing matrials.
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Alien thing
just had a go at animating in after effects with a lil creature i made in photoshop. I was surprised how easy it was. Like copying keyframes etc, made life much more simple and stress free.
Second Human Life!
Well i havnt had chance to start working on our new brief, so ive just been looking around at videos and found a rather funny viral style ad which involves people pretending to be avatars in second life. This of which was something that i did for a joke, and thought it wud be funny to do something like this,looks like someone else thought of it. Im still gunna do sumot similar tho, in a sepeate project maybe.
Saturday, 10 November 2007
How it should have ended!!
i have found a nice collection of animation spoofs, based on some very epic and some fairly old films. All animated in 2d. They kind of remind me of those 'adult swim' episodes on paramount. The style of it all, is quite comic book sketched. Its nice to see some 2d animation for a change, despite its a spoof thing, it is a good watch.how it should have ended
Friday, 9 November 2007
Ident Evaluation
Evaluation
On the return from the summer break I was still in motivated to work to a brief, as I was quite busy over the summer working on various projects I had set myself. The brief for making an ‘ident’, using after effects at first seemed quite simple. The only thing that I was worried about was learning after effects, as before id had a go before a few times and always got ‘blown away’ by the complexity of it. It was just not a program that I could learn for my self without tutoring a little bit. Once I had a few lessons in the programs, there were little things which I was told whch helped me a hell of a lot. After these few lessons on the programs, I then picked it up fairly fast.
I chose the fear brief, as I could have the opportunity to involve some of my favourite horror movies etc, have clips, I was wanting to do the fear as It was the best one for me out of the four.
My main idea for the ‘ident’ was to involve the psychological things which had always effected me when I was younger, these usually were things which were involved in death, execution devices, like the hang mans noose, the guillotine and various other torture devices. In my opinion these things are the most psychological devices to scare someone, or someone who is about to die. So I wanted to create something that might have involved something like this. So I came up with a ‘first person’ style view of the viewer about to die, dieing, and then coming back as a zombie somehow. So the view you see is like looking through someone’s eyes. The main part of the ‘ident’ would involve the part where the ‘1st person’ would be dieing, and this part involves going through some kind of tunnel, as if you were travelling from the physical self to the spiritual self hence going towards ‘the light’ or something in that way. After much careful thoughts it was decided to get rid of the first part of the ‘ident’, that was a short bit from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ the hanging scene, which was perfect for what I was wanting. Unfortunately it made my ‘ident’ way too long and didn’t seem to fit in with the other parts, seemed to look too ‘nice’ looking. The decision to get rid of that small scene from the ‘pirates’ film was good one as just the travelling through the ‘tunnel of death’ looked much better with all the montage of roto-scoped footage.
One of the most important issues when working to brief such as this, that would involve a lot of roto-scoping, as what mine did, is the time management. It is important for every other brief as well, its just I had to be extra careful as I had a lot of work to do and to fit other things around it, was a challenge. That is a thing which I am going to work on more in the future, is deciding on what kind of work ill be doing before I plan my time, as certain creative processes do take longer than others especially roto-scoping.
With the overall ‘ident’ finished with the soundtracks perfected, I am quite pleased with my final piece, there are certain things which could be improved in it, and they would be the quality of the roto-scoping, which is a skill in itself, to do it quickly.
On the return from the summer break I was still in motivated to work to a brief, as I was quite busy over the summer working on various projects I had set myself. The brief for making an ‘ident’, using after effects at first seemed quite simple. The only thing that I was worried about was learning after effects, as before id had a go before a few times and always got ‘blown away’ by the complexity of it. It was just not a program that I could learn for my self without tutoring a little bit. Once I had a few lessons in the programs, there were little things which I was told whch helped me a hell of a lot. After these few lessons on the programs, I then picked it up fairly fast.
I chose the fear brief, as I could have the opportunity to involve some of my favourite horror movies etc, have clips, I was wanting to do the fear as It was the best one for me out of the four.
My main idea for the ‘ident’ was to involve the psychological things which had always effected me when I was younger, these usually were things which were involved in death, execution devices, like the hang mans noose, the guillotine and various other torture devices. In my opinion these things are the most psychological devices to scare someone, or someone who is about to die. So I wanted to create something that might have involved something like this. So I came up with a ‘first person’ style view of the viewer about to die, dieing, and then coming back as a zombie somehow. So the view you see is like looking through someone’s eyes. The main part of the ‘ident’ would involve the part where the ‘1st person’ would be dieing, and this part involves going through some kind of tunnel, as if you were travelling from the physical self to the spiritual self hence going towards ‘the light’ or something in that way. After much careful thoughts it was decided to get rid of the first part of the ‘ident’, that was a short bit from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ the hanging scene, which was perfect for what I was wanting. Unfortunately it made my ‘ident’ way too long and didn’t seem to fit in with the other parts, seemed to look too ‘nice’ looking. The decision to get rid of that small scene from the ‘pirates’ film was good one as just the travelling through the ‘tunnel of death’ looked much better with all the montage of roto-scoped footage.
One of the most important issues when working to brief such as this, that would involve a lot of roto-scoping, as what mine did, is the time management. It is important for every other brief as well, its just I had to be extra careful as I had a lot of work to do and to fit other things around it, was a challenge. That is a thing which I am going to work on more in the future, is deciding on what kind of work ill be doing before I plan my time, as certain creative processes do take longer than others especially roto-scoping.
With the overall ‘ident’ finished with the soundtracks perfected, I am quite pleased with my final piece, there are certain things which could be improved in it, and they would be the quality of the roto-scoping, which is a skill in itself, to do it quickly.
Thursday, 8 November 2007
A cool website on some 3d and photoshop art
3darts and photoshopy stuff
This persons has done a few bookcovers etc for maya etc.
This persons has done a few bookcovers etc for maya etc.
Friday, 2 November 2007
New tunnel renders
i did these renders, just to see wat they wud look like i the different lighting conditons.
Final Crit
Well after i spen all night last night tryin to get a clip from the the 3rd pirates film, i cud only do it via uncompressing a divx encoded file, from 700mb to 140gb!!, so at the same time i was rendering out summot, and i did start to uncompress it around 10pm, plus i was tired. Anyway, it got to about 1.30ish and it still hadnt finished, so i thort id better go to bed, so i can wake up next mornin,lol. So it come to the morning, and i hear drowning of my pc,and the bright blue and red lights, turn monitor on, go to the folder, to find the bloody file was corrupt! So kud've got that extra hour of sleep!! The most anoying thing is, that during my crit it was suggested to get rid of the pirates bit, which is sods law really, even tho i was unsure that i like it like that, so after all that annoyance, its gunna be deleted!ha! Also the 3d animated text is going, from feedback and my decision that it doesn't really fit the overall theme.
What i am going to try to do is to do some bit of squiggly animation in red, just like i tried to make the text merge from the shatterd glass, but shud go better with the text, as itl be the same colour etc. Other things which i would like to do, would be to alter the montage slightly in after effects, i really want to try and give them shadows, so they are meant to be in the creepy tunnel, or sumthing along the lines.
Oh and last thing, is the sound design, the irritating symbols at the end of it, really doesnt go well at all, more like 'jazz season' than 'fear season',lol.
What i am going to try to do is to do some bit of squiggly animation in red, just like i tried to make the text merge from the shatterd glass, but shud go better with the text, as itl be the same colour etc. Other things which i would like to do, would be to alter the montage slightly in after effects, i really want to try and give them shadows, so they are meant to be in the creepy tunnel, or sumthing along the lines.
Oh and last thing, is the sound design, the irritating symbols at the end of it, really doesnt go well at all, more like 'jazz season' than 'fear season',lol.
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