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April 7, 2015 - No Comments!

Kmt 1st Ident

For my first Ident I found video footage of waves. I mashed up, mixed up, slowed down and sped up the waves and then overlaid some vector animations. I used Adobe After Effects and also Adobe Premiere. I'm loving making these and I'm really excited to make more. My next project will involve cassette tapesSurgery to improve blood flow to generic viagra the organ.. I will be unraveling, dissecting, breaking, and burning cassette tapes in 240 frames per second.

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April 7, 2015 - No Comments!

3rd Quarter Timeline

Week1

Present Idea and finish the first Ident I started over break. Blog about what I’m doing for special topics. Filming wednesday for my next Ident: focusing on green screen and time remapping.

Week2

Finish Ident Brainstorm/Sketch the next weeks Ident: focusing on using the iPhone 6 camera at 240 fps and motion tracking.

Week3

Polish Ident. Blog About it.

Week4

Finish Ident and blog about it. Brainstorm/Sketch the next weeks Ident: focusing on using expression and infinite rotations, black and white footage and bright bold color.
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Week5

Polish Ident. Blog About it.

Week6

Finish Ident and blog about it. Brainstorm/Sketch the next weeks Idents: focusing on abstract ideas and mix mashing my previous works. using Mat Mailand as inspiration.

Week7

Polish Ident. Blog About it.

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April 7, 2015 - No Comments!

Special Topics III

This 3rd and last quarter of Specail Topics I will be expanding my knowledge of after effects further by creating a series of Idents. Idents are small snippets of video that express the identity of something, mostly executd in an abstract or surreal manner. Most notable Idents are that of MTV and Adult Swim. When declaring upcoming shows or intermissions usually between commercials and program episodes. As you can see in figure 3.1 Idents can be very abstract and meaningless or tell story and cause the viewer to feel an emotion from simply made visual sensory inputs.

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February 19, 2015 - No Comments!

Expressions

WTF are expressions in after effects?

An expression is a little piece of software—much like a script—that evaluates to a single value for a single layer property at a specific point in time…With expressions, you can create relationships between layer properties and use the keyframes of one property to dynamically animate other layers.

Yeah, what he said ^^ My current understanding is that expressions turn a single motion into a perpetual motion by repeating the animations over and over again. Like if I want some lines to wiggle, instead of figuring out the long and tedious task of making the wiggle throughout the entire video, I can just write an algorithm of some kind and the computer will figure out all the hard work. What I don't understand is how to write them and what kinds of expressions are even available. So the first step is to google the shit.

I enter into the Google Machine: After Effects Expressions

The first link i clicked on seemed promising: Top 5 After Effects Expressions for Better Designs

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ADD AN EXPRESSION TO ANYTHING BY ALT-CLICKING ANY STOPWATCH

  • Sean Frangella, a motion designer and Premiumbeat Blogger is a great resource for after effects, cinema 4d, and lots of great tutorials on all sorts of different motion subjects, here is his youtube channel. sidenote: he looks like the guy from Donnie Darko.
  • The 5 best expressions to start with are Wiggle, Time, loopOut, seedRandom, and mathRound.

  • 1.Wiggle

  • The wiggle expression is apparently the most used expression in A.E. It does exactly what you think it does, makes stuff wiggle. The equation is wiggle(digit#1,Digit#2) - Digit#1 is how many times per second and Digit#2 how many defferent ways it will express itself. The higher the numbers the crazier the expression.

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  • 2.Time

    • The time expression great for layer and objects that need perpetual motion - rotating an object indefinitely is the most common. All you have to do is put the word time into any expression parameter and it will give that layer perpetual motion. This parameter also works with basic math equations, so if your using time() to rotate something you could multiple the rotation by writing time*30 and it will rotate 30 times faster.

  • 3.loopOut

    This expression creates an infinite lopp that will last forever. Unlike other expressions, loopOut requires keyframes to be present. So if you had an animation set up and you wanted it to repeat itself you could add the loopOut() expression and the motion will be repeated forever.

  • 4.seedRandom

    So this one gets a bit more complicated so you have to think about it for awhile before it starts to make sense. So I recommend lighting up a spliff and pouring a cup of espresso while you stare out into the bits of sunlight and think about the digital world. seedRandom() is alot like the wiggle() parameter where wiggle(2,3) will have the same effect as seedRandom(5). I honestly don't get it myself but here's a little explanation from a guy names Evan. "Random numbers aren’t completely random in After Effects. Sure, it may be called ‘random’, but in reality true random values cannot be achieved in javascript and subsequently After Effects. It’s for this reason that “random” numbers need to begin with some sort of base number. When After Effects draws this base number it uses the layer number that can be found on the far left side of the layer in the timeline. Each different iteration of “random” is called a seed so a random seed of 1 is different from a random seed of 2, but if you had similar wiggle expressions (i.e. wiggle(3,2)) with say a random seed of 5, they would actually wiggle in the exact same way.

    If you were to change a layer’s order in the timeline from slot 3 to slot 10 it’s random seed would change, thus your wiggle will now look completely different. This isn’t a huge problem, but sometimes a certain wiggle iteration looks absolutely perfect and you don’t want them to change if your project order changes. To fix this you can use the seedRandom() expression. This expression locks random seeds so that your expression doesn’t change if you add in new layers."

  • Math.round()

    This parameter rounds decimal numbers to the nearest whole number. This one is good for doing countdowns or numbers in the source text. Simply add your normal expression in the Math.round() expression pranthesis in your source text expression box and all your numbers will be rounded up.

    • February 16, 2015 - No Comments!

    Inspiration

    As the quarter rolls on, I find myself in a weird valley looking up at the giant mountain that is my special topics. I've become rather bored with what I'm doing, as I do with just about anything I do for a prolonged period of time, and although I want to climb this mountain, for now I think I'll lay here in this quiet valley and stress out over nothing. At a time like this when crisis strikes, there's nothing left to do but search for creative inspiration. And so today for about 2 hours I searched through after effects tutorials, artistic animations, robotic animations and awesome music videos that utilize after effects. As I'm sulking in my valley and watching these videos that reside at the top of the mountain, I think to myself "Oh that's easy" or "I could do that" but then another part of myself says "fuckin do it, man". So in hopes of finding some motivation I'm writing this blog to get my thoughts off my shoulders.

    In this video I learn why social media is bad and how abstract animations can relate to something so real. It was made by a dude that has a bunch of tutorials on Lynda.com. Dude = Shimi Cohen. He came up with a solution that combines a simple graphic language, which was also clear, and memorable. He managed to illustrate the narrative concept and backed it up with a clever animation style

    The Innovation of Loneliness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo.

    This next video made me want to eat LSD and listen to music with my eyes closed. I liked this video so much I dug deeper and looked up who made it and if there were any tutorials. I found out it was made for Adult Swim, which is a late-night-experimental-weirdo-trippy-guy program on cartoon network. The mastermind and director behind this video and many other creepster-esque videos is a guy who calls himself lilfuchs, which I think is short for little fucks, which is cool. Check out his website here. I found out Lilfuchs works with Dino Fritz and Sam Layja, and together they all make up Turner Studios.
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    The next video I thoroughly enjoy. It's Diplo and Skrillex's song called Jack Ü. The animation is so fun. I definitely want to make something like this.