FINAL PROJECT PART 2
The next part of my project was for a film project I did in another class. I desired to make my intro cool so I decided to do a bit with after effects as a way to take care of this desire and to couple it with my after effects final project, a little two birds with one stone action if you know what I mean.
For this I took footage of me zooming in on a reflection of an air vent. I couldn’t zoom in all the way with the camera so my goal was to make after effects do this. This was extremely difficult and I got Ben’s help on this one. We created a mask that looked like vents right in the same place as the actual air vent. We then motion tracked and I believe a few other things I can’t even remember how to do. The end result was rocketing the camera into blackness via the camera tool.
At this point I created a simple title sequence. I aligned the text in a 3D world of blackness and made the camera travel in a “U” shape. I also made it feel a little unpredictable with its movements by messing with the cameras positioning. At the end of the sequence the camera moves in on air vents that I created using masks. Layered behind the air vents is actual footage from my film project.
It turned out really great and I am really satisfied with how it looks.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Final Project
FINAL PROJECT
My project is a series of green screen clips mixed with animations that are a test for videos I will be making this summer for my business.
The first step in the workload was to make the animations. I compiled 3 different animations: my business logo, an apple, and a car spilling gasoline.
For my business logo I had to create the design in photo shop. Then, in after effects, I created a mask to animate the stem of the plant to look as if it were growing. I then attached the leaves with anchor points to the stem and scaled them up and rotated them to make it look as if they were also growing. The hard part was the next part. I took the heart logo and broke it down into particles that repelled inside a mask and then played it backwards to get the desired effect.
The apple was the easiest part. I simply photo shopped 3 different apples: a normal one, one with a bite in it and one that was brown on the inside. I then animated them together.
For the car spilling gas, I drew a person, created a gas pump, and photo shopped a Ferrari. I then animated my person grabbing the gas gun from the gas pump and then sticking it in the Ferrari’s gas tank. At this point I created gasoline by using a particle effect and then using two masks to contain the oil.
Now after all of this was done I filmed my segment in front of a green screen I made in my room. The biggest challenge was the lighting, but everything worked out in the end.
Once I had my footage captured on the computer, I did a quit edit in Avid and then exported everything to after effects. Once I had my animations and footage in after effects it was play time.
I started by using the color key tool to key out the green screen background. I then created masks around the sides where my green screen ended (my green screen was too small and this was a big problem). I used a lot of masks to get a relatively desired clean look. Also I did some very minimal roto-scoping in places where it was needed.
The next part was putting my logo with my green screen footage. I had to make it look like a stem was growing out of my hand. This required a lot of positioning key frames. I then created a mask and put my face in the background of the footage so I could blow the logo out of frame. To animate this I just scaled the logo really big and changed its position in order to achieve the effect of it coming towards the camera.
The next part was to work with the apple animation. Once again I used a lot of positioning points in order to make it look like the apple was in my hand. I also scaled it smaller when I brought the apple in to my wind up right before I threw it at the camera. And once again I scaled it large to make it look like I threw an apple at the camera.
The next part was the easiest. I took my animation of the car spilling gas and just put it in the left corner of the screen.
Once I was done I rendered it, and uploaded it to Vimeo.
: )
My project is a series of green screen clips mixed with animations that are a test for videos I will be making this summer for my business.
The first step in the workload was to make the animations. I compiled 3 different animations: my business logo, an apple, and a car spilling gasoline.
For my business logo I had to create the design in photo shop. Then, in after effects, I created a mask to animate the stem of the plant to look as if it were growing. I then attached the leaves with anchor points to the stem and scaled them up and rotated them to make it look as if they were also growing. The hard part was the next part. I took the heart logo and broke it down into particles that repelled inside a mask and then played it backwards to get the desired effect.
The apple was the easiest part. I simply photo shopped 3 different apples: a normal one, one with a bite in it and one that was brown on the inside. I then animated them together.
For the car spilling gas, I drew a person, created a gas pump, and photo shopped a Ferrari. I then animated my person grabbing the gas gun from the gas pump and then sticking it in the Ferrari’s gas tank. At this point I created gasoline by using a particle effect and then using two masks to contain the oil.
Now after all of this was done I filmed my segment in front of a green screen I made in my room. The biggest challenge was the lighting, but everything worked out in the end.
Once I had my footage captured on the computer, I did a quit edit in Avid and then exported everything to after effects. Once I had my animations and footage in after effects it was play time.
I started by using the color key tool to key out the green screen background. I then created masks around the sides where my green screen ended (my green screen was too small and this was a big problem). I used a lot of masks to get a relatively desired clean look. Also I did some very minimal roto-scoping in places where it was needed.
The next part was putting my logo with my green screen footage. I had to make it look like a stem was growing out of my hand. This required a lot of positioning key frames. I then created a mask and put my face in the background of the footage so I could blow the logo out of frame. To animate this I just scaled the logo really big and changed its position in order to achieve the effect of it coming towards the camera.
The next part was to work with the apple animation. Once again I used a lot of positioning points in order to make it look like the apple was in my hand. I also scaled it smaller when I brought the apple in to my wind up right before I threw it at the camera. And once again I scaled it large to make it look like I threw an apple at the camera.
The next part was the easiest. I took my animation of the car spilling gas and just put it in the left corner of the screen.
Once I was done I rendered it, and uploaded it to Vimeo.
: )
Final Project from Matt McClure on Vimeo.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
For my final project I am working on a couple of things…
1.) The main part of my project is to create animations to enhance green screen videos I am creating for my business.
For the first animation of my final project I have created a hand that grows a plant out of it and creates a particle heart logo around the whole piece. This is actually the logo for the website for my business that I am working on.
Check out these 2 videos to see how it has progressed…
Logo Test 1 from Matt McClure on Vimeo.
Logo Sparkle Test from Matt McClure on Vimeo.
2.) The second part of my final project is to polish my directing workshop scene with some after effects post work. For example, I will play with the lighting and color tone of the scene as well as create some steady cam shots.
1.) The main part of my project is to create animations to enhance green screen videos I am creating for my business.
For the first animation of my final project I have created a hand that grows a plant out of it and creates a particle heart logo around the whole piece. This is actually the logo for the website for my business that I am working on.
Check out these 2 videos to see how it has progressed…
Logo Test 1 from Matt McClure on Vimeo.
Logo Sparkle Test from Matt McClure on Vimeo.
2.) The second part of my final project is to polish my directing workshop scene with some after effects post work. For example, I will play with the lighting and color tone of the scene as well as create some steady cam shots.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Introduction
Hi there!!!
My name is Matt McClure. I am a Senior RTF student at the
Not that I'm not in the professional world already or anything. Because I am already in it! But, I would prefer to have all my time in it, rather than one foot as a professional and the other as a university student...
Currently, I am working on a full feature independent film outside of school. My personal roles include being the producer, the assistant director, and an actor as well.
I am very excited about this project because I have wanted to make movies since I was a little kid. And now I am finally doing it. My goal once the film is finished is to take it on a festival tour and then start prepping to do the next film entitled “The Woods” with my director buddy Mike McCutchen.
Mike is the current director of the film I am working on entitled “The Next Kill.” He has the qualities, persistence and vision to be an amazing film director. I have such a huge faith with him that I intend to just keep working with him over the years. We work really well with each and make a great team and like the style of movies he wishes to make. My goal is just to keep working with him and keep making bigger and bigger movies as we go along with bigger and bigger budgets. I will be primarily a producer and actor, but will also have my have my hand in other parts of the creative process with writing, assistant directing, and overseeing the editing and the music.
I have a seed planted with Mike. I believe in working with others as a way of building each other up. “You can have everything you want in life if you help enough people get what they want.”
Mike wants to be a big time director. I want to be a big time actor. My first pay check was acting at the age of ten and that’s one thing that I have always wanted to do since. By teaming up with Mike and others I will by pass all the glass ceilings out there so I can get what I want.
So why am I in the Visual Effects and Motion graphics class?
Well, because an intelligent and budget savvy producer knows a little about the whole film making process.
Also, I need to work on some of these visual effect skills for some of the work I am doing for my own personal business I have unrelated to film outside of school.
That is about it.
I am done writing.
Anyway, I don’t usually post a lot of the projects I do online, but I’ll add a live music video to this blog that I actually have on the internet. And I will also add the trailer for my movie when it is ready and that should be pretty soon.
Thanks for reading,
Matt McClure
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