Monthly Archives: April 2006
After Effects Introductory Workshop!
Greetings fellow Mediaworks students. I am conducting an introductory workshop on Adobe After Effects tomorrow (Wed 2006-04-26) in the Multimedia Lab, from 11am to 1pm. You can download the PDF version of the handout here. This might be useful if there weren’t enough copies to go around at the workshop, or if you couldn’t attend, [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged After Effects, Evergreen, Handout, Mediaworks, Tutorials, Workshop 1 Comment
Rushes, Adventures with Meat
This is my first “video blog”. Behold its uncompelling exploration of anti-fecundity. Here are the Rushes I showed for class critique on Thursday, 04-20. The movie is 38MiB, so you may with to download it instead of streaming it. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged Evergreen, Mediaworks, Production Entries, Transference Simulation 2 Comments
DVX100A Tests
Today I picked up the DVX100A, and performed about 10 minutes of test shots. The purpose of this was mostly to make sure that motion looked okay in 24p advanced pulldown mode, as Ben Stein was somewhat disparaging towards the capabilities of 24p. Having performed initial experiments, I can say that it looks beautiful compared [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged Evergreen, Mediaworks, Production Entries, Transference Simulation 2 Comments
Sneak Preview
Here is a short entry for a change. I just did another test key of Lumbar Laura dancing. I was worried about how well her hair would key, because even though I wetted it down with water to reduce the amount of stray hairs flying about, it was still not a solid object. Fortunately, it [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged Animation, Chroma Key, Evergreen, Mediaworks, Production Entries, Transference Simulation Leave a comment
More Animation, and Plans of Domination
Last night (Mon. 04-10), I did another healthy 8 hours of animation, and captured some interesting things, which you can see below. If, after seeing all of the animation I have completed, you are wondering what the hell I’m doing, and how I’m going to combine it into a form that means something, I’m worried [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged Animation, Evergreen, Meat, Mediaworks, Mud, Production Entries, Transference Simulation 3 Comments
Informational Videos + Thematic Thoughts + Instructions to Use OurMedia Instead of GoogleVideo/YouTube
This post contains all of the animations I have completed so far, including the 1020 frames I captured last night during a rather fantabulous 10 hour shift. probably 1/5 of these frames were taken rapidly, just to capture movement, and aren’t of the greatest quality, as you will see in the Lumbar Laura clip. I [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged Displacement Map, Evergreen, Mediaworks, Production Entries, Technology, Transference Simulation 2 Comments
Power Transformer Destruction
Awhile back, I raided the Metal Dumpster in front of A-dorm for interesting metal and electronic parts. I found a microwave inside of which something charred had exploded, so I smashed it apart and took some various wire and circuit boards. I noticed that the power transformer had a wire coil in it that was [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged Animation, Armature, Evergreen, Mediaworks, Photography, Production Entries, Transference Simulation, Wire 2 Comments
A Conversation, and an Update on Progress