Rough Scene fly through

Final Animations

My models

Compositing

 

 

Render of my models

Final Compositing Project

Final editing

Editing the groups clips all together was so much fun! I loved seeing it slowly but surely coming together! We decided on using Epic Score – They Hit Without Warning as our soundtrack to go with the footage. We found it on the playlist below;

Magic beans, wait I mean beams..

Following the tutorial above I gave the throwing magic beams a go, I tried my best..

I’m happy with the attempt above for my first go, but I know the one below needs more work;

Not being a expert in after effects this project is proving to be challenging and a lot of trial and error.

 

When things get tough, the tough get going…

Compositing is a lot more difficult than I expected! It’s been a learning curve.

 

Learning from watching other’s helps me a lot, I found these tutorials below to help create the black smoke material I was hoping to create for the magic building inbetween Ryan’s hands in the footage;

Working with fluid’s was definitely a first for me, I did struggle a lot with it but I tried my hardest to get the look I wanted.

Bringing it into scene in after effects I duplicated the layer, and added effects to some of the others. I experimented with trapcode particular but decided against it and used video copilot optic flares to add a little more energy to the smokey mystery.

 

Below is the final outcome;

I’m not entirely happy with the outcome but again I have to remember it’s a learning curve. I’m excited to learn more about this in the next semester.

 

Baby steps to big dreams

Working on my weight animation over the past few days has (hopefully) paid off. I decided to to animate the Casey rig getting up from a sitting down position and being a baby she would obviously have to be a little wobbly.

Not knowing any younger children I hit youtube to see if there were any home videos of kids taking their first steps;

this being my main reference and some other’s I looked at;

Below is a playblast from the first steps of animating;

Always looking for feedback I asked some fellow animators, teachers and more importantly honest friends;

Not being able to see things until they are pointed out sucks but like I’ve said having people you trust to give you constructed  help, helps a lot! Taking the feedback onboard my second animation test;

again going back and refining things, below was the final outcome;