Animation Motion Design: 2015

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

FX Project

My FYP is based around the idea of world building. I am looking into matte painting at the moment and thus with my current project is based around those ideas also. I've always been interested in the idea of how nature can overcome any obstacle, even if its just a small weed that managed to break through concrete. I am collecting imagery of cityscapes, worn textures, overgrowth of plant life, worn/ damaged buildings, reflective surfaces and any possible imagery I could use as overlays or filters. Most of the photos I probably won't even use but I stop and take a quick photo or recording of anything I find interesting.

I'm being selective with the work I put up on this blog!

Some Photography:

Worn abandoned feel. Interesting characters.

Reflective surface. Mirror with condensation and light.

test of close up on plant life

Worn shabby buildings. Overgrowth. Plants.

Cityscape day and night.

I've been playing around with the photography, layering them and adding effects and colours in AE just testing them and seeing what effects I could come up with. I'm collecting these tests in a folder on my laptop.

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Research Videos:

Tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwOBpE6K2G4

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Workshops with print and casting

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Green screen photoshoot:

23rd Nov: My classmate and I tested out using the green screen and each of us helped each other with what we needed to be done. My classmate played the role as the actress and I was the camera woman.

Some sneaky snap shots

Result: After the photoshoot my classmate and I realised we set up the lighting wrong and thus made a lot of the the footage I took unusable. However I was able to find a solution around this problem by creating ghostly figures rather than the realistic quality ones by using different effects on AE.

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Some test recordings and experiments:

(blogger only allows YouTube videos)

Some quick recordings on my phone. Interesting water patterns

Nice lighting on the river

Double river lighting

Rough water ripples

Some effects

Testing green screen. Walking by the river.

Testing lighting. Dark gloomy scene

Ghostly figure test

Experimenting with line work and mixing mediums

Interesting colours and shapes from candle

Testing out different effects for the sky

Testing reflection effects

Interesting effect

Fire simulation using water recordings and effects

Strange backwards waterfall effect

testing mirroring effect

Strange water effects

Ghostly effect

Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Graduate Show Ideas

Bones

Painting

Tiny worlds

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Deserted Village.

For the individual assessments

List of the tasks I completed for the project:

contribution to group meetings/ discussions.
Drew out my own version of a storyboard. Mashed all our ideas together. Split up the frames in the storyboard to each member to draw.
Audio recording. I read out the poem and it was recorded.

I tried and experimented making some silhouette ghosts on After Effects.

After some discussion with my teammates they suggested some feathering effects. I did some feathering and changed the opacity slightly in order to see some slight features of the characters.