Tag Archives: After Effects
SOS: Media Spring – Week 5 Update
This week was one in which I didn’t make a great deal of progress on my own work. One could say that I benefited as a person from my other activities. I taught part two of the After Effects workshop for Mediaworks. This time I was without any support from official people such as Stephanie [...]
Visual Effects: An Interview with Lead Compositor of Van Helsing
I stumbled accross this (somewhat aged) interview with Todd Vaziri, a lead compositor in Van Helsing, at ILM. It might be interesting for some to see how After Effects is used in a larger professional production workflow on a big effects-heavy film production. The Interview (via vfxtalk.com)
After Effects Workshop v3.0
This last Friday, I taught the third After Effects workshop that I have been a part of, for the benefit of a few students from the Mediaworks program. Myself having been in Mediaworks last year, and having attempted to put together a similar workshop for Mediaworks then, it was great to see all of the [...]
Suppress Control and All Cocks Plaster
These are two short videos that I created for Safe Harbor. The process that was used to create them is an interesting and likely somewhat unique one, so I thought I would write a bit of an explanation here. First, here are the videos for you to experience firsthand. Suppress Control All Cocks Plaster These [...]
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The Real Work Begins
Yesterday was spent fiddling with After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Live, tweaking all of the stuff I have done and making it better. I also experimented a good bit to finalize the process of inter-operating between AE and Premiere. Dynamic Link is nice, but boi do I wish I had 2GiB of ram instead of [...]
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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, [...]
Frame Interpolation as an Aide for Object Animation
Recently I have been continuing to experiment with the frame interpolation and warping capabilities of Reelsmart Twixtor and the TimeWarp and Optical Flow plugin for After Effects 7.0, in order to create smoother motion for 3d animation. Frame interpolation refers to the process of creating new frames by analyzing existing frames. This is usually necessary [...]
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Budget and Schedule + AE7!
Bleary Polka is an experiment I did over the last couple days, trying out the amazing new graph editor in After Effects 7 to control time-remapping video in order to synchronize with music. The latter half of the video still sucks, partly because of the footage, and partly because I didn’t spend much time on [...]
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Exegesis on solus in tenebrarum
The following is a discussion of the process of creating my screen test self-portrayal project for Mediaworks weeks 6 and 7, which was titled “solus in tenebrarum,” (Latin for “alone in the dark”) I realize it is horribly pretentious to name your work with occulted Latin phrases which few people but yourself will understand, but [...]
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SOS: Media – Week 8 Update