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February 3, 2015 - No Comments!

Laying Iphone Screens in Post

This is my third time attempting motion tracking in after effects and oh boy was it a success. I'm working on an underwater camera app that lets you know when you have crabs in your crab-pot, so that you know when to pull the cage up from the sea floor. Anyway, motion tracking:

1. Get some footage that will be easy to work with, it needs to have smooth camera movement, distinguished color, and be in focus with easy points to locate and track. You can pirate this video if you know how.. or email me kevenmt@gmail. I'll send it to ya or maybe you can show me a good way to make this file downloadable.

2. Now you need to figure out what your going to be laying over your footage. In this case we're laying iphone app screens on top of an Iphone. I made my app screens using a prototyping tool called Pixate. It's a great tool for showing how micro interactions will work within an app idea. After I had the app made in Pixate, I used this tutorial to turn my Iphone screen interactions into a video using OS Yosemite and Quicktime (pretty rad). The key here is that you have footage that is the exact size as the Iphone screen which is 1334-by-750-pixel resolution at 326 ppi. Once you have both the base footage and the footage your laying over the base; you'll be ready for the next step.

3. Open After Effects and bring your footage together in the same comp. Name the base layer "base" and the iphone screens "screens". (1)Poke the eyeball of the layer "screens" so that your only seeing the base layer. This footage is what we're going to track. Go up to the menu bar, click window and bring up the Tracker Panel. I suggest (2)smoothing the footage first with Warp Stabilization. Then hit the (3)"Track Motion" button and select the option (4)"Parallel Corner Pin" under the tracker type. We're using this option because the bottom left corner of the iphone will be hard to track because this guy's fat fore thumb is in the way a little bit. so make sure the hot point with the dotted lines goes to the most difficult corner to pin.

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4.(1)Get those hot spots set on each corner of the iphone. When you have them in a satisfied location go over to the analyze section and (2)hit the play button. This will analyze the footage and track the motion so that you can lay your iphone screen in there. After that's done click on (3)"Edit Target" and set the target to the "screens" layer. (4)Hit "APPLY", poke that eyeball right square in the face, and you should have your self a decently tracked Iphone with some decently made App Screens layed right that mother.

January 22, 2015 - No Comments!

Project Description:Update & Schedule

So my plans to do a music video for a specific artist have sort of diminished. The artist has his own ideas about what he wants his music video to be like; and so it goes that I find new lessons and experiences in working with other creative individuals. So, onward and with my skills in after effects. I would still like very much to work with video in A.E., so until i find some video to work with I will be animating the letters of different cities, starting with Seattle, WA. Here is the beginning stage of my animation of Seattle. My plan is to put a mask of the Seattle abbreviation "SEA".

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On my next iteration I'm gonna add Puget Sound sea creatures, maybe a ferry (maybe), space needle, buildings and maybe some twelfth-man type shit.

January 8, 2015 - No Comments!

Quarter2 Project Description

This quarter I'm going to apply my After Effects skills and Video Production skills into producing a music video with animations and interesting titles for local hip hop artist Christopher Colorina a.k.a. Ill Chris. http://ayelogics.bandcamp.com
Before I started my SCCA career, I lived/worked in a production studio where I learned about photography and video. I assisted professionals in large production photo shoots, worked as a P.A. in the lighting department of a film crew, and took on a few of my own endeavors as director, filmer, and editor. I'm very grateful to have had that experience and opportunity to meet so many great individuals in the Seattle scene. One of whom is Ill Chris. We made a few music video's together, all of which are very amateur production, but hey you gotta start somewhere!

Now I haven't shown these videos to many but I figure these are a good start to show how my skills are growing becoming much better quality. Here are those videos I worked on solely by myself:

These next two music videos I didn't produce alone. The first video I took the role as filmer and the second video I came on to do lighting and grip duties.
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Filmed by Keven Thompson.

Lighting and Grip by Keven Thompson

I'm really excited to be producing this music video. I've been thinking for years about what my next project is going to be and now that i've learned so much about design/photography principles, typography, animation, and after effects; Im excited to see what I can produce. My main focuses for this project are going to be videography, video editing, typography, motion tracking and masks inside of after effects, and last but not least outputting a high quality video to Vimeo. Wish me luck, here I go!

November 18, 2014 - No Comments!

RotoScoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator, frame by frame. Back before computers and the digital age, rotoscoping was a job in itself. Tedious and time consuming, artists were paid to draw, frame by frame, entire movies. Could you imagine those old disney movies where everything was drawn by hand and done on paper? So crazy. Here's a better explanation of rotoscoping.

Luckily, I live in a time where this is automated digitally. The Entire process which used to take weeks and months now only takes hours and days. But rotoscoping has taken on very different faces as technology and artists evolved over time. here's another version of rotoscoping, more futuristic than Pinochio and Jimminy Cricket.

Another example of rotoscoping, more practical than motion sensors, is one of my favorite movies A Scanner Darkly, where Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and other famous actors are very recognizable behind the graphic-novel visuals. A Scanner Darkly was made using “Rotoshop,” a software which makes frames between artists’ tracings of the source live-action footage. Gets complicated, doesn’t it? I don't even know if I understand it.
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And for the Finale! The music video for Mark Salverda's all time favorite song uses rotoscope to turn a 1980's boy band into a comic book like love story.

October 29, 2014 - No Comments!

Pieces of the Ae Puzzle

I've been watching these tutorials over and over again. I've been picking up on small pieces of information and trying to put this big picture of after effects together into a frame of mind I can understand. I had that moment today when the pieces of the puzzle come together and you can see some part of the picture and you understand a bit more than you did about 5 seconds prior... I think its called learning. And what I learned is that I can put masks in motion, and that masks can go over not only still images, solid colors and textures like in photoshop but motion videos like this one.

(well I can't find what i'm looking for on youtube but I'll Post here when I do, ok move along)

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This next video is a great, and probably the best, example of what I mean by putting masks in motion. Its Apple's iconic ad campaign for its Ipod product. The video shows the artistic progression of the commercials from 2004-2008 and its really cool to see how creative the videos get towards the end. The worst part of the video is when U2 - Vertigo plays twice. So I suggest skipping thru the video and you'll get my point about the artistic progression.

Now I don't know for sure if this video was made with After Effects but I can definitely visualize how it can be made in After Effects using the Rotoscoping Tool. I wouldn't mind doing some sort of project where I rip off this idea of moving people with solid colors and motion shapes in the background. Something to think about. For now I'm gonna look into this rotoscoping business and find more pieces to the puzzle.

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