This video above is an animation of trees and a ballon using adobe photoshop and adobe aftereffects. this form of animation is called multilane because it uses multiple planed to create a 3D effect on the images. we first had to create our scene in adobe photoshop then move it into adobe aftereffect and began our animation. the multilane animation is used to crate a 3D effect with background layers. an example that Walt Disney created is when bambe is walking through the forest the background layers move at different speeds because things closer to you move faster than things farther away.
how did we make ours
Fist off we had to come up with an idea mine happens to be a forest just like Disney's movie. we had to take the normal screen size 1920 X 1080 and boosted it to 10000 X 1080, so that we could animate the trees moving at different speeds and with the boosted the screen length we where able to add more off screen so that I looks like the animation is moving. then we drew out the layers and added things like shading, burn, light, gradients, and details so that the animation would look more realistic and add more of a 3D effect to the animation.
Our group me, Mason, Miles, and Emma decided that even though they had an interesting summer I had a summer that would get the viewer viewers attention and that I had the most B role. This project ONW 1 in 2000 was a converse journalism about s group members summer.
Some things that our group had to prepare for before we even touched the camera for example, we first had to find who had the most interesting summer vacation, after this we create 21 questions that the interviewer would ask the interviewee, then we created roles for each person in the group, mason was the interviewer, I was the interviewee, miles was the camera man, and Emma was dealt cinematographer.
I had the most interesting summer I was being interviewed. I learned allot from this role, for example I learned that moving around too much can have a really bad effect on screen after editing. I also earned that we need to check if the camera is picking up sound before we start filming, we did not.
Things that I learned was that the camera needs to be white balanced and checked for sound before you start recording. also on adobe premier pro don't cut out that much because otherwise you will have a bunch of cuts and it looks really bad.
I could tell that our group had some trouble with the five guaranties because I noticed on the first day that miles likes to be the group leader and plan out everything, mason doesn't care that much, and Emma does not like to help as a team member. I asked Emma, and mason multiple times if they had any good ideas for location, questions, and better ideas. so this kinda pulled us together at moments when needed.
I liked how my video ended up at the end, but I would change my group members for some of the reasons listed above. something that I will make sure to do next time is check the white balance and make sure the audio is being recorded. this put our group 2 day behind on editing.
Something that I would keep the same is our groups work ethic because I would say that we were always trying to be on task and on time. we also worked together really well once we started to film and we where all on the same page, thats when we started to use the five guarantees.
This sounds really repetitive but things I defiantly would remember is white balance and audio. but then I know that it is important to remember the reflexion sheet so that can improve on the things I messed up on this time. for example one of the things that made my video look really bad the first time is all of the jump cuts and that I could've covered them up with b roll or graphics.
I liked how my re edit came out and I wish that I would have done it in the first place. or if we weren't missing audio I could've had more time to make the first video look really professional. I think that this was a fun project that really opend up my eyes on things that Ecomm students can create.
Friday, October 6, 2017
robot animation
overview-
our class project was to draw a "character" that has at least two legs and arms on a pice of paper. then after I created my robot we went over the edge of it with sharpie or something noticablel in adobe photoshop. then in adobe photoshop we cleaned up and added some details like dodge, burn, color, and folds to make the robot look 3d. then our final steps was to import the .psd file into adobe after effects and began to animate like the inch worm.
what I learned
I learned allot of new things with the this animation for example, most of my other animations do not have the. dodge and burn. I liked this two tools because they helped everything 3D, really cleaned up the animation.
what went we'll
things that went well where animation like on the final steps. I guess just because I have had allot of practice using adobe after effects. something that did not go well was adobe photoshop and designing the character mainly because I could not think of something to draw. then using adobe photoshop I had hard time cleaning up some of the black lines.
