Inspiration for final assessment

This piece has many aspects that I am aiming to incorporate in my final piece. I watched very closely on how they animated objects that i hope to use in my piece including butterfly, flowers and leaves. With some knowledge of AE i can see how they have used simple transform properties to create the effects of flowers blowing in the wind- how ever i am not sure how they did this as a group. Watching this video i can see how they have created cohesion through consistent style of vector graphics and coloured background. This video is successful in taking the viewer on a journey using smooth transition of one object to the next. This can be seen when they use butterfly's. They have successfully used the 3D space to create depth by making objects constantly shift to and from the camera.

Presidentti - Fantasia / Stardust

This video piece inspired me to incorporate vector lines and small objects into my final piece ,as it adds another level of interest and option for animating. I admire how they have used trapcode particular to add depth to the piece and how this can be further enhanced using blurr. It is hard to believe this piece is about coffee, well rather the experience you will have after drinking such coffee.

DEGAUSS Into

This piece is only short but is a really good example of how creating visual depth is about using a combination of camera properties-blurr, object placement-near or far and trapcode paticular to create atmoshpher.

Inspiring

Very cool new personal piece by Gkaster. Sound Design by Philippe Gully.
http://www.kurtzmedias.com/user/pierre/VIDEOS/LEGERETE-DIGITALE+ZIK_CD.mov

This piece is inspiring because of how he uses light to create the focus and to give depth to the scene. This is useful because it is a way to capture and direct the viewers attention.

The audio is also similar to my selection-simple with only one instrument. It has also inspired me to possible included sound effects, as it ads another layer to the piece.

And OneSize "Anything you Synthesize" by The American Dollar

See the article at Motiongrapher.

It is a beautifully soft piece that's uses light and colour to indicate mood and emotion-very inspiring. It has also used a piano in the sound track-another indication of mood. The video is also a example of consistency -as the motion is kept consistent throughout the whole piece.

Example-effects and audioe

I selected this piece because it has a similar mood that i am aiming for, for my final piece-in particular the start. This is a video that has a lot of scenes that i would like to do in my final piece using trapcode particular effect. I like in this piece how they use it to outline a plane on the bottom of the screen. The music is also similar to what I am after in terms of rhythm and mood.





More by Pierre Michel who works are inspirational because like Motionographe says "Pierre Michel uses vfx-powered visuals and water-based tableaux to create drama, but I find the editing and sound design to be just as powerful as the imagery. Both spots have a kind of a over-the-top, melodramatic flair that some may be turned off by, but personally I want to crawl into these worlds and hang out for a bit." (motionographer)

His works are very inspiring because he uses simple technique but uses them wisely. He is concerned in all of his videos of angles-how to best get the effect-that emotion. This can be seen in the rain video where he uses all angles to get that sense of being overwhelmed - of something bigger then us-something out of our control. In my final piece it won't go to these extremes in terms of darkness of emotion.

week 9- mood board and rotoscope walking

50's mood board

I think that this mood board is a success because at a glance is conveys what colours, style and objects of the 50s I will use. The colours will be based around yellow, red, grey and white-which occur consistently throughout the board. In the board there are a lot of geometric forms and lines which will assist in conveying that style from that period of time. Large areas of blank colour also convey the 50s time period with typography from this time having a writing aesthetic.

week 9- mood board and rotoscope walking from lara hughes on Vimeo.

I think that with this weeks tutorial what i produced is a reflection of the mood board. If i had more time i would of tried to make the shapes appear more realistically on the wall-rather then just stuck on top! in terms of the mood board i think it correlates well as i used similar shapes and colours to achieve the 50s look.

I added some extra stripes on the corner but i don't think they actually add anything to the piece now i look back-it just creates clutter. So if i was to do this again i would remove those and maybe use the lines as an outline to the walking logo or part of the background a bit more.

week 8- track motion and corner pinning

week8-motion tracking and text 2 from lara hughes on Vimeo.

With this weeks tutorial i understood what to do pretty easily. In the case above however i didn't edit every frame so the text appears to jump around a bit. If i use this for assignment it would have to be more stable and therefore edit to 'appear' that the text is in the environment. What i learnt from this is that it can be very time consuming and can change every single time according to your reference point- so pick carefully.

week8-cornerpin from lara hughes on Vimeo.

Again a case of not going through ever frame-the image jumps around and doesn't 'appear' to be in the environment of the video or in this case the screen. I later found out from my good friend Laura that if you expand the other boxes it can help in stabilising the inner image more efficiently.

bokeh examples

It is made in after effect using tapcode particle illusion.



Real world example.

lens flare and audio

This is a really good example of how the lens flare can be used to match the audio or signify a change in the audio. I also like how they have varied the speed of the camera-creating even more focus on the motion and the light.