We’ve just finished this delightfully festive video for MEC, with a slightly crazy turnaround time, but quite delighted with the end result.
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So Staples, one of our clients, wanted to attract some attention to a contest they’re running in Canada where they’re giving away some computers to schools. There’s an environmental aspect too… the winner needs to prove that their school recycles, turns off lights etc… the brief was for a kinetic type animation, but I ended up adding a few extra layers.
More info here:
Staples.ca/ENG/Static/static_pages.asp?pagename=soulrecyclefored
{Submitted to the Made with After Effects competition, link to follow}
Not the most impressive thing in the world, but anyway. I’d had to play with a lot more settings than I expected on this. It uses the step distribution, which then gives you the option to set spacing between the dominoes.
So I had this idea that the CS tools Mo-cam rig might be a great basis for some camera projection as it’s effectively a series of cameras that guide the path of one ‘master camera’, as shown here:
So I got a bunch of random images from Google, and projected them randomly from each ‘Waypoint’ in the Mo-cam, onto a Cloner Object filled with cubes. One problem I did have (then eventually stopped caring about as it was Friday) was the projection on the cubes once the dynamics kick in. It would have been way nicer to work out a way to fix the projected textures to the UVW of each cube, but it wasn’t happening for me inside the cloner object… any ideas?
So I got some delicious 7D footage from Jordan Lee, and I’ve been toying with some tracking in my spare time… these shots are from Steveston, Vancouver.
I’ve been playing with The Foundry’s new camera tracker plugin, and been continuously impressed with how effective it is.
Just 10 seconds rendered for now, but this first attempt was very successful. It’s more Photoshop than C4D to section up all the layers.
I’ve got separate PSD’s for:
• The 4 Beatles
• The Beetle car
• The old guy in the background
• The black car
i’ve also just learned that you can watch the present day Abbey Road on a live webcam.
I’m happy to give away project files if anyone is interested. Comment here and I’ll get back to you.
I had a great opportunity to work on this Kodak Playsport film. I used Magic Bullet Looks and some nice film grain (one of the Kodak film stock settings of course!) for the warm summery grade, and various 2D motion tracking for compositing screen contents, and sky replacement. I’m quite pleased with this one, and we got some brilliant feedback from Kodak at the end.
