B. Final Project Ideas

For the final project I was thinking about a couple options:

1. Making a new and longer version of the typography project. I really enjoyed that project as well as the concept to the piece as well. Id like to extend it into a full poem/illustration like in a doctor seuss book with everything made out of text.

2. Animating a Dr Seuss like idea of illustrations to go with the text/poem inside of a book while pages turn. Essentially, animating the reading of a book.

3. Making a cut-out animation of a little town all made from pieces of food. A lot like candy land, but food land. it would be a series of connected events from one side of the screen to the other. imagine like a super mario game.

After Effects Fiasco Experiments

This AE project working with effects was really interesting. Firstly, I had no idea the render times would take so long, but man do things really start looking nice when you add multiple effects to achieve one goal. Everything with the tutorials was pretty time/labor extensive and kinda gives you a headache sitting here so long listening to a 25 minute tutorial that takes 2 hours to get through due to annoying speakers, but overall it was worth it. I really like what I ended up with as far as aesthetics go, too. It has a nice clean image quality that I really enjoy and havent really seen in my other pieces thus far.

Detailed Account of AE Effects Process:

Main Video:

Effects Used: On the marble.

[All of the effects listed below were just messing around with how the marble looked in the finish. Most of them were used to acheive a glowing, meshy looking object.]

-Gaussian blur

-CC Glass

-Glow

-Color Emboss

-Lens blur

-Dust & Scratches

-CC Scatterize

[For the scatterize option i only set key frames for the left and right twist as the marble moved along a set path. These allowed the shape to look as if it were 3dimensional in the space.]

Effects Used: To achieve the light/particle scatter in background

-Particle World

[I started with one particle world generator and changed typical things like the birth rate, velocity, and birth size as well as the color. I proceeded to duplicate this layer 2 more times and changed the aspects slightly to show up behind the first particle world as smaller and more blurry to create a sense of depth.]

-Slider Control

[To control all of the particle world generators, i added an adjustment layer. To the adjustment layer I added a slider control that allowed me to whip-pick the other particles to it and control their movement and placement.]

Effects Used: On background moving video

-Glow

-CC Glass

-Color Emboss

-Dust & Scratches

-Turbulent Displace

[Turbulent Displace was probably the most prominent effect seen in the final render. The other effects were kinda steps in progress leading up to the final becuase in the end you actually didnt see the other effects. I used a luma matt under the track pad options over the original video i had that allowed it to have the displacement effect and not look like the original video.]

Explosive Text Video:

Effects used:

-Pixel polly

[The pixel polly was applied to preset text and it pretty much did the work all for itself as far as the effect goes. There was some general tweaking in areas like the gravity, randomness, speed and force to achieve the effect.]

-Forced Motion blurr

[The forced motion blue was applied on top of the pixel polly and left in its original settings.

Tutorial Sources:

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/planet_explosion/

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/particle_explosion/

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/3d_stroke_effect/

Typography Project Revised -Write Up

I think the revisions that were made to my typography project were successful. Changing the background color from white to an off-white cream color made a big difference in upping the contrast. I also changed the pie color to resemble more of a key-lime pie. Again, a successful change in my opinion. The number-color coordination was changed so that both of them are in an increment of 3. I also went back in and added some squash and stretch to the pie when it hits and lands on surfaces which also proved very helpful in the overall aesthetics of the Typography piece. Ive really enjoyed this piece and I felt the critique on Tuesday was very constructive in helping me revise this project. Honestly, I would love to work with text again.

Typography Project Revised

Typography Project Render 1

Typography Project Write Up

The typography project was actually pretty fun. I had fun doing it and generating ideas to work with. I have a lot of ideas already for revisions that I think will make it much better. Overall, im really happy with the way the animating played out especially in the beginning with the falling pieces of pie. I think the revisions I will make on for Thursday will make the concept much clearer. I cant wait to see everyone elses projects. I can tell im getting more comfortable with how the program works now because its not taking as long to do what I want to do and I am finally successfully using the graphing charts to make smoothing animating a possibility.

Typography Project

The typography project was actually pretty fun. I had fun doing it and generating ideas to work with. I have a lot of ideas already for revisions that I think will make it much better. Overall, im really happy with the way the animating played out especially in the beginning with the falling pieces of pie. I think the revisions I will make on for Thursday will make the concept much clearer. I cant wait to see everyone elses projects. I can tell im getting more comfortable with how the program works now because its not taking as long to do what I want to do and I am finally successfully using the graphing charts to make smoothing animating a possibility.

Revised Mid Term Project

revisions_1_midterm from Christi Lemke on Vimeo.

Here is my revised and rendered midterm project. There are still many things I wish I had gotten to do with this particular project; however, im really pleased with how the animating turned out. I hate that I couldnt stick closer to the original storyboard, but I figure I liked this idea so much, ill come back to it again at some point and keep working. I fixed most of the hiccups in the animating and added an actual ending to the project.

Mid-Term Final Project

My midterm project is obviously not complete and has several issues and hiccups.

However, On a positive note, i am pretty pleased with the progress and animating that

i did manage to get done. It was so terribly time-consuming that I almost lost my mind with my other classes work piling up as well. However, I will finish it in the coming week and make revisions.

Typography Project Outline

Typography project outline:

For this project im continuing working with food as a basis but moving towards consumption.

I have gone back inside the body to the core of a human, the heart.

This project will start with the close up on the text of the heart pumping. Text will run through the arteries and out through other arteries into the space around it. The text itself is important to the concept. There are 2 texts: "Consumption is negative production. (Alfred Marshall)" and "You are what you eat." The idea is to have text and pump faster and faster out of the heart and potentially wrap around the heart, strangle it, and when it bursts, it bursts into tons of little pieces of pie made from text that fall like rain in the scene. The images above are really just quickly done go give you an idea of the main objects in the piece. I wasnt sure if the solids of color behind the text could be used or not, but i put it in as a place holder just in case.

I followed a typical color pattern for the texts shown according to the different parts of the heart and arteries. I have gotten into many different kinds of texts yet, and i feel that may be important to differentiate meanings.

GNARLS BARKLEY WHATEVER TYPOGRAPHY VIDEO from jules tardy on Vimeo.

Here is a typoraphic video I found that I really liked because of the use of text

and animating it. Particuarlly, the part with the elephant jumping up and down right at 30 seconds into the video.

Typography On My Mind from FormTroopers on Vimeo.

I really enjoyed the use of color and text in this animation. The sortof 3D effect
with the colors is an interesting idea.

TypoParticles // Experiment from Anibal Camargo on Vimeo.

This is probably my favorite animation dealing with typography. Its the most
engaging use of text and has a very fluid movement id like to replicate.