vfx: PSA Project

By Mike December 19th, 2009, under Other Projects, Visual Effects (Fall 2009)

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Had to create a public service announcement making use of different things learned over the semester in visual effects class. Went the route of land conservation, and came across this organization that seems to buy land to develop into parks, reserves, etc.

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Breakdown of the greenscreen shots, video footage, and other effects used. Tried out different colored construction papers for keying, in the end went with the usual green. Lighting was a bright/even light above the setup, with light from other parts of the house acting as a fill. Lately been liking neutral colors, and kinda washed out or aged looks, so this carried over to this project too. Similar style was used in the Perspectives project.

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Early testing version of the project, trying out ways to get the desired effect, figuring out how to organize the components and masking etc, figuring out what footage would be needed.

Initial storyboard for the project. During the animatic/rough cut phase, decided to keep the project around 30 seconds in length, mainly because PSA examples I saw online were 30 seconds. This lead to cutting some scenes out that would just be filler, and keep the main portion that deals with visual effects.

vfx: Greenscreen Project

By Mike December 18th, 2009, under Visual Effects (Fall 2009)

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The finished greenscreen project. Thought I had this version posted on here before, but couldn’t find it on the site, might have just been the work in progress one.

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Shot breakdown of the visual effects greenscreen project.

Perspectives: Title Sequence

By Mike December 15th, 2009, under Motion Graphics, Perspectives (Fall 2009)

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For our final project we had to create a title sequence with a chosen theme as if there were a movie or series created about our lives.

vfx: Day 2 Night

By Mike December 3rd, 2009, under Visual Effects (Fall 2009)

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Had to take a photograph and create a day to night change.

Character Walk

By Mike November 20th, 2009, under Animation & Modeling, Character Animation (Fall 2009)

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Second pass of the character walk-cycle. After watching Black Dynamite I just had to do a walk like that.