Final Project Update 4

For the final part of my project, I finished rendering effects and then finished cutting all of my footage together to the song "Summertime Clothes" by Animal Collective in Final Cut Pro. I added some transitions and effects in Final Cut and rendered everything again in Final Cut then exported the final video. Some problems I did not think of happening was having to rerender all of my clips I already rendered in After Effects to a lower quality since Final Cut the computer could not handle the videos without freezing. Here is my finished video:

Final Project Update 3

I created and animated 3D shaped using maya and brought them into after effects. I then took a 2D still of the diamond shape and used it in the beginning of the project. I added light rays and lens flare to make the object appear to be shining in the sun. I changed the position and the scale of the object to follow the pictures scale and position change.

Final Project Update 2

I edited all the footage I shot on the screen screen as well as footage I shot in front of a blacklight wall covered in flowers, using the keylight effect to use it as a sort of greenscreen. I used several different backgrounds and effects and both the greenscreen and the blacklight screen, changing the screen matte, blur, and black, and white gain to get the colors I wanted to show. I then rendered them all out separately and added particles effects and other effects to the outside footage that was not shot on a greenscreen.

Final Project Week 1

Pitch:
For my final project I plan to make a music video that transitions from 2D to 3D. For the first part I will take many photos to show a “2D” motion sequence. On top of that I plan to make and animate shapes over the photos. The characters will then find a special shape in the grass that will warp them into “3D”. I will use a particle effects and other effects in the warp for the transition to 3D. The second part of the video will feature my characters in front of a green screen. I will use then make 3D shapes and figures in Maya, which I will impose over the characters and animate. I will key out the green screen and use various different backgrounds, some of them hopefully being 3D.
Preproduction:
I shot photos of my friends in a sequence walking towards a grassy area where they pretend to find a shape in the grass. I will later photoshop, add, and animate a shpae into the sequence. I also had them change outfits and filmed them in front of two different screens. One is blue with flowers over it while the other is a green screen. I also filmed them see-sawing and dancing around outside.

Shapes and Masks

For the shapes and masks assignments, I added things to the titanic video I made for the green screen assignment. I first made a mask layer and used the pen tool to make a heart shape. I then changed the position so that the heart expanded to make a heart transition intro. Then I created a new shape layer and used the pen tool to create heart shapes that fell at different speeds in the video.

3D Animation in After Effects

This was my attempt at 3D that I showed in class but was not what I originally had planned. After multiple failed attempts at using vanishing point in photoshop, I ended up just making billboards and photoshopping them and then making them 3D in after effects.