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Final Project Ideas

For my final project, I plan to expand upon my orb idea. I had so much fun doing that experiment, and it opened me up to many possibilities with it. After sifting through my thoughts, I just decided to pursue the one that I always seems to keep coming back to. I want to create a short musical piece that will affect the objects in my composition. I want the piece to travel the 3d space and to have rhythmic lighting. The viewer will experience the harmony of an indeterminate number of orbs reacting and playing off of each other. I will create the music myself, and I plan on it carrying an atmospheric tone. The piece should not be very long.

The basic idea for the piece is infinity. I was stuck on this idea proposed by many discovery science program about how there may be multiple universes, or how there is a bit of the universe in each living thing. The orbs in the piece will contain a galaxy of its own. The spheres will start off kind of big at the beginning of the piece, giving the illusion that they are masters of these little universes. As the piece ends, the viewer will zoom out to reveal the there are infinite amount of spheres that in turn make up a universe.


Here is one example to visually explain what I want to do. At the end of Men in Black, it is revealed that the entire story takes place within a little marble.



And these are example of audio animation and how I want to animate this project.

Final Project Ideas

Well, its time again to come up with a concept for the class. After this weekend, I think I want to employ the techniques I learned to my final piece. I still have to mull over what exactly it is that I want to do, but it deals greatly with the 3d aspect of the program as seen with my demo for class.

Effects Fiasco Roundup

I must say, this has been a very fun and interesting weekend for After Effects. Not everything has gone to plan, but I think I produced some decent demos. I really wanted to see how far I can take myself in this program. Even though I used tutorials for some of my experiment, it was still a challenge to pull everything off. There were even some projects I started that did not work out at all. I made three experiments in all and I will to sum up my process the best that I can.

For my cavern project, everrything came together at random intervals. I took the photo of a glossy blue surface and set the spherize effect to it. I set the key frames of the spherize to and animated it pulsating. I then took the photo into Photoshop and adjusted the colors via curves to give it a fleshy tone. Last, I focused on having a wet lens effect. I used cc Mr. Mercury and adjusted the levels of the longevity, gravity, velocity, ect.

For my water, I had to create a texture. I took a solid and added a fractal noise effect, adjusting the spline to make it more unified and softer. I added colorama, to change the grey to a cooler color. I then added a ramp to give it varying degrees of light. Last, for the texture I added a cc starburst. I then made another comp. I made another fractal noise solid, but this time I made the fractal type swirl to give it a wavy look. By setting the evolution, I was able to give it motion akin to waves. By taking these textured comp and nesting it into another, I lastly added an adjustment layer. On the layer I added a turbulent displace. By keying the offset, it made the waves look as if they were flowing in a specific direction.

Typography Update

The original idea that I had for the typography project turned out to be pretty impossible given my skill limitation and the fact that what I had envisioned required completely different software. My new idea deals with my characters of Fontland. I am still trying to decide where the story goes beyond the introduction of the hero of the piece and his love. The are so many places I want to take the characters. One scenario is of the hero's girlfriend being stolen away by the fontmonster, a despicable character that spews out fiery breaths of hated fonts. So far, my approach is simple and I am liking the results as I progress. What I am trying to primarily accomplish is to give personality to extremely simplistic characters since I usually go about creating complex pieces. Hopefully I get this done with great success.

Typogyaphy Project Idea

The idea of my next project is relatively simple in conception. I want to do something more abstracted with my next project. My idea consists starts with texts falling in a black void. The text would resemble water droplets as they create ripples in the void, which are made up of glowing letters. These glowing letters will begin to cluster and rise, eventually exploding. This idea may require me to use the 3d tool in after effects. So depending on the level of difficulty this project may present, it may be subject to change.

Video Examples

I have been hit with the realization that the lot of typography work that I have seen so far is very literal/commercial and have very little to do with my idea. But I did find this one. Here, it shows what I want to do with camera work. This is what the 3d tool may come in.