Since I've been on my journey for looking for an internship, I've decided to redo my reel. It's kinda weird because I named it "2013 Motion Graphics Reel" when the year has barely started but all the work is from 2011-2012 so should it be "2012 Motion Graphics Reel"? Oh well, enjoy!
Showing posts with label Vimeo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vimeo. Show all posts
Friday, January 11, 2013
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Title Practice.
Yesterday I was practicing an abstract logo for myself. Our final project in our editing class is to create a logo for ourselves on Avid Media Composer. The people who know how to use After Effects can use it but must explain how they did it to the class.
I decided to spend some time using the "Beam" effect in AE. I animated a group of 5 beams streaking across the circle and duplicated it to form the animation. I had it stutter between 2 to 6 frames to the plucking of the guitar with a simple glow effect. The 3 "beam squares" are actually all on the same "Z" space (meaning they're all just as far away from each other in distance) but I've added the "Lens Blur" effect to simulate depth of field.
My circle was created using the "Ellipse" Tool and keyframed to slow down at a certain point and drag on out slowly before fading/blurring away to give that organic feel of water droplets. I also added a mask to half the circles when going beyond the main circle.
The "Gaussian Blur" Effect was added to unsharpen the logo to blend better with the grain and light leak overlay. Not to long ago, I had a client who supplied me with a pack of film grain, scratches, and light leaks. I simply set their blending mode to "Hard Light", set a base grain, and 3 light leaks for beginning, middle, and end. I think I over did it on the grain and leaks, but hey, I'm just having fun with it.
I also added a solid on top of the final comp with a radial "Ramp" effect on top with a yellow in the center to black on the edges. It's not so apparent with the grain on, but it adds some slight detail to the texture of the logo. Finally, I added the Video Copilot preset for "AfterShake" to simulate the juttering of the gate of an old camera. I need to work on that since I just slapped on the preset and did minor tweaks to its controllers.
This is the first time I've ever messed with something like this on my leisure. Hopefully, I can make one of these every 2 weeks or so just to keep experimenting with new ideas. I believe having this passion to create something and aspiration to keep learning new things about the trade and medium are essential to becoming an amazing artist. Plus lots of coffee, and getting frustrated for 2 hours on what colors to choose.
P.S. Vimeo redesigned their web page lay out and I must say, for once, I'm actually much more pleased with this design than their previous one. This doesn't happen too often for me (Facebook) when pages I visit a lot change their layout and I initially enjoy it.
I decided to spend some time using the "Beam" effect in AE. I animated a group of 5 beams streaking across the circle and duplicated it to form the animation. I had it stutter between 2 to 6 frames to the plucking of the guitar with a simple glow effect. The 3 "beam squares" are actually all on the same "Z" space (meaning they're all just as far away from each other in distance) but I've added the "Lens Blur" effect to simulate depth of field.
My circle was created using the "Ellipse" Tool and keyframed to slow down at a certain point and drag on out slowly before fading/blurring away to give that organic feel of water droplets. I also added a mask to half the circles when going beyond the main circle.
The "Gaussian Blur" Effect was added to unsharpen the logo to blend better with the grain and light leak overlay. Not to long ago, I had a client who supplied me with a pack of film grain, scratches, and light leaks. I simply set their blending mode to "Hard Light", set a base grain, and 3 light leaks for beginning, middle, and end. I think I over did it on the grain and leaks, but hey, I'm just having fun with it.
I also added a solid on top of the final comp with a radial "Ramp" effect on top with a yellow in the center to black on the edges. It's not so apparent with the grain on, but it adds some slight detail to the texture of the logo. Finally, I added the Video Copilot preset for "AfterShake" to simulate the juttering of the gate of an old camera. I need to work on that since I just slapped on the preset and did minor tweaks to its controllers.
This is the first time I've ever messed with something like this on my leisure. Hopefully, I can make one of these every 2 weeks or so just to keep experimenting with new ideas. I believe having this passion to create something and aspiration to keep learning new things about the trade and medium are essential to becoming an amazing artist. Plus lots of coffee, and getting frustrated for 2 hours on what colors to choose.
P.S. Vimeo redesigned their web page lay out and I must say, for once, I'm actually much more pleased with this design than their previous one. This doesn't happen too often for me (Facebook) when pages I visit a lot change their layout and I initially enjoy it.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Ponyo/Feb DSLR Project Update
I got to see Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" yesterday which he did in collaboration with Disney. I've been a fan of Miyazaki's work especially since I grew up watching "Totoro" on VHS before my double digit days.
This is one of those movies that make me feel nostalgic about adolescence and how everything can seem so magical from a child's point of view. I'm not a super big fan of a lot of Japanese animation today, but it's good to see that there is still some out there that are still being hand drawn.
To keep things brief, the story is about Miyazaki's vision of the much familiar "Little Mermaid" story. Like much of Miyazaki's work, there are a lot of mystical and magical tones to his films and "Ponyo" is no exception. The plot wasn't anything sophisticated or flashy, but that's what made the film so much easier to take in. Allowing me to not get too drowned out in the plot meant for a very relaxed viewing in which the visuals took the front stage to help tell the story of Miyazaki's vision of Ponyo's world.
The world in which Miyazaki fabricated to house this story is nothing less than breathtaking. Many of his films are located in some sort of countryside type terrain, usually involving forests or a rural town. In "Ponyo", we get to see his perspective of the sea which I think is one of his best yet. I have this weird affinity for water and just love the way he portrayed a small port town and his use of speckled light hitting the ocean floor underneath. I can go on and on about how visually amazing this film is, but I highly suggest to check it out for yourself.
As for other news, I'm currently on Spring Break and couldn't be more thankful to have a week to myself. I'm happy to say I've finished cutting the February DSLR Project I've been working on and I'm about to move on to color correcting.
I should be able to finish everything up by this week but I don't plan to post it up until sometime later. I'm currently trying to save some money so I can buy a Vimeo Plus account so I can upload it in HD and so I can upload files bigger than 500 mb's. Hopefully that will be sometime soon!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Moving.
So I've decided to move from my old LiveJournal account to a blogger account to get a much more professional and less personal feel. I think for the most part, I'll keep things relative, but don't be surprised if I post a few personal things here and there. I've decided to cut things off from my previous blog due to the fact that I've had it for some many years (since 2005) as a personal blog and at some point the blog was even shared by another Joe.
Anyways, continuing where I left off, I'm still testing out my workflow with my DSLR footage from my Canon T2i. I've basically decided to give myself practice with my DSLR by making a simple "daily life" kind of video that I plan to put on Vimeo. Nothing too major, just some days I've shot from February 11 to early March. So far I'm still in the process of cutting it all together, then on to color correcting, and then I plan to add some motion graphics/kinetic typography to make things a bit more interesting. This will be my first personal video project that I have shot and edited on my own in maybe 4 or 5 years, so I'm pretty excited as to how this all turns out.
Here's some finalist videos that caught me eye from the Vimeo Festival. Definitely some good stuff out there.
"Nuit Blanche" by Spy Studios.
And here's one called "Pennies Heart" from Phos Pictures, those same guys who did "Last Minutes with Oden". I'm kind of surprised that they're stuff was so good that two of their videos were nominated for best documentary.
Well, that's for my first post. Hope you treat me well, Blogger.
Anyways, continuing where I left off, I'm still testing out my workflow with my DSLR footage from my Canon T2i. I've basically decided to give myself practice with my DSLR by making a simple "daily life" kind of video that I plan to put on Vimeo. Nothing too major, just some days I've shot from February 11 to early March. So far I'm still in the process of cutting it all together, then on to color correcting, and then I plan to add some motion graphics/kinetic typography to make things a bit more interesting. This will be my first personal video project that I have shot and edited on my own in maybe 4 or 5 years, so I'm pretty excited as to how this all turns out.
Here's some finalist videos that caught me eye from the Vimeo Festival. Definitely some good stuff out there.
"Nuit Blanche" by Spy Studios.
And here's one called "Pennies Heart" from Phos Pictures, those same guys who did "Last Minutes with Oden". I'm kind of surprised that they're stuff was so good that two of their videos were nominated for best documentary.
Well, that's for my first post. Hope you treat me well, Blogger.
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