Ecco come potete esportare da Cinema 4d ed importare le vostre scene in AE, mantenendo tutti i settaggi (camere, luci, animazioni) della scena 3d di C4D.

Video Olympic present a video mapping installation in the city of Exeter this weekend in conjunction with the Exeter Phoenix 2 Short Nights film festival. The Installation will be running from 6 till 7 on both Friday 27 & Saturday 28 of November 2009.

For more information please contact Video Olympic.

Sounds design by DJ Jusme.

See you there!

I found this video on youtube which basically shows exactly what I want to create for the beginning piece of my after effects project. This is the trapcode stroke plugin, which creates the light streak. This plugin has a 3D mode which creates the illusion that the light is traveling in a 3D environment.

I like the way the light streak stops and then text appears. This is very much like what I’m going to do because the light will stop at certain points and then an image will appear which represents a problem or struggle that I have a night. This video will give me something to aim for when I’m producing my own light streak scene.

Here’s a montage, illustration and animation filmed and edited by myself
with skating by James Fulton.

Finally done and you know – the slides are backwards..
Maybe when I give my brain a rest from it I’ll go back, fix it and re-export it.

Vinyl wrap I designed for KEYE-TV Telemundo Austin Conteo de Noticias. I traced this image I took of the Austin skyline in Illustrator to use as the background element.

Click on image for more.

Abertura feita para um programa ficticio de uma TV comunitaria. O programa foi um projeto academico.
Toda a cidade e a TV foram feitos no Illustrator.
A disposição em profuncidade, o foco, e toda a parte de animação foi feita no After Effects.

O After Effects, da Adobe, é um dos melhores e mais usados editores de vídeo. Ele oferece infinitas possibilidades para edição e criação de vídeo e é uma ferramenta bastante útil para quem faz animações e precisa editá-las. Para nós que usamos Blender, esta é uma dica muito boa, um script que exporta informações de animações feitas do Blender para o After Effects. É possível exportar a animação de câmeras e objetos. O processo é bastante simples como ensina este vídeo tutorial.

Para exportar a animação da câmera (na verdade, a animação de um objeto a sua escolha também será exportada) é utilizado o script 01_Blender2AE_newComp. Neste caso, é necessário que a câmera esteja sendo controlada por um Empty, mas podemos usar o script 99_Blender2AE_newCompNoPOI, que não necessita do Empty. Basta carregar o scrip, selecionar a câmera (que será chamada de BlendCamera no AE) e um objeto, que será um objeto nulo (Null). Se nenhum objeto for selecionado o Null será criado sem nenhuma animação. Feito isso, executamos o script (Alt+P) e salvamos (um arquivo .jsx).

No After Effects o processo também é simples. Vamos em File > Scripts > Run Script File e abrimos o script salvo anteriormente. Se abrirmos o arquivo será criada uma nova composição com uma câmera e um objeto nulo, referentes aos selecionado no Blender. As dimensões da composição serão as mesmas definidas no Blender.

Para exportar a animação de um outro objeto da cena criada no Blender é utilizado o scrip 02_Blender2AE_addObject, que não cria uma nova composição, apenas outro Null na composição já existente. Com o objeto selecionado é só executar o script, salvar o arquivo e abrir no After Effects como no caso anterior.

Os scripts podem ser baixados na página do vídeo tutorial citado acima (link direto para download). É um arquivo compactado que contém as versões antigas e novas dos script.

I have done some more adjusting to the shot of the tunnel that I’m going to use for my After Effects project. I’ve now altered the colour to blue so the bright yellow light at the end stands out more. I also had a go at changing the size of the light rays and key framing the change so they would animate. I might need to make the size changes of the light rays much bigger so the animation is more noticeable.

So have my final eSeminar for the year this Friday. We will be covering working with footage from the RED Digital Cinema System.

Learn how you can hire a RED camera for less than most pro video cameras a day, and shoot up to 4K feature film quality and then edit that footage natively in Premiere Pro CS4, grade in After Effects and then produce a BluRay DVD of the project, all native, all realtime. Its pretty cool stuff actually.

As always the sessions are free, just need to register here, we will be live as 12:00 Melburne time this Friday.

I did some more work on my tunnel scene for my animation. I’m trying to create a spiritual look to this shot. This is to represent the pathway to the light of positive energy, which reflects my negative perception of tinnitus being transformed into a positive perception where I have habituated to the condition.

Here is an updated version of the tunnel shot.

The next stage will possibly be altering some of the colours by maybe adding a tint of blue to the scene because its a calming colour. I’d also like to add some movement to the light at then end of the tunnel and maybe have the rays become bigger and brighter which could wash out the scene to end the animation.

I’m hoping to see a few of you at MacWorld 2010 where I’ll be speaking next year. I love San Fransisco so will be taking a little extra time out to hang out with my old friends, Amacker and Nina at the Lucky 13 bar on Castro. I also hope to catch up with all my other SF buddies, it’s always hard to fit everything in as there are so many people I love in the bay area!

If you’d like to attend you can click on the banner to the left to get a discount. Click on the Register button and then just use my personal priority code, ATAYLOR when you register.
Below are details about the talk I’ll be delivering;

Users Conference US964: Creative Video Workflow – From Storyboard to Completion – Feb. 12, 2010    3:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Angie Taylor will take you on a journey through a typical video project, showing the entire process including the creation of sketches, brainstorms and storyboards, audio production and clean up, editing, and producing the final project. Angie will also discuss how creative professionals can bring unity and clarity to complex creative projects. Aspects of automating time sheets, liaising with clients, auditing jobs and packaging final files for delivery will be explored within this session.

Anyone with personal or professional interests in creating digital videos and working with tools such as After Effects, Flash, Flow, CS4, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Soundbooth, will benefit from this session.

If you are interested in a streamlined way to look at the digital video process including tips and tricks using various software tools that will help maximize the creative input and minimize the project complexities, then this session is for you!

Angie’s Shuffle Track of the Day: San Fransisco – Scott McKenzie – listen free on Last FM

Aharon Rabinowitz updated the Red Giant Red Room Blog with news of something called Knoll 3D Flare, an upcoming add-on to the Knoll Light Factory Pro plugin. He mentions a lot of really nice enhancements, some of which you wonder why they weren’t added sooner.  You’d probably be correct to guess the reason for sudden action is fear of Andrew Kramer’s upcoming Optical Flare plugin. Read all about it: here.

“Goodnight Sunday” is my weekly dedication to creative development.

This week I try out some compositing techniques. There’s a lot you can do to boost the atmosphere of a scene by compositing. I think the best compositing is achieved when you don’t really notice it – compositing used as ambience.

This…

Plus…

Equals…

Used a bunch of matte techniques to get the “God Ray’s” to shine through the windows. Rotoscoping the windows and a few blurs for the sun shining through them. And of course color correction to tighten up the overall scene.

Check out the video with a before and after.

I found this video on youtube of someone trying out the video feature on the canon 5D SLR camera. I like the effects on the tunnel bit because it looks surreal. Those light effects would work well for my tunnel image as they are bright and vibrant, which creates this sort of dreamy environment.

This is one of the coolest commercials ever made. Yours truly, and two others from Team Legend, Thiago Levy and Eden Obando, put this together, called Bubbaloo Salmon. Our inspiration was crazy japanese commercials and culture(obviously). Tasty enough for you?

クールなコマーシャルをこれまでに作ったのこの1。敬具、チームレジェンド、チアゴレビーとエデンオバンドーから2人、一緒にBubbalooサーモンと呼ばれる配置。私たちのインスピレーション日本語コマーシャルや文化に夢中だった（当然）。十分屋のおいしい？

These’s are the shots I worked on:

I modeled, textured, and animated this panda:

I animated the gum breaking out of the package:

I animated and textured the ninja and sword slashing the gum:

Hello People!

Depois um de um tempinho sem posts, cá estou eu, apresentando mais um trabalho desenvolvido. Dessa vez um VT comercial para o “Seminário Mulher Total 2009″, realizado pelo Pra. Selma Cantagalli, da IEQ Carlos Prates em Belo Horizonte/MG.
Trabalhando com Adobe Premiere e After Effects CS3, e Sony Acid Pro7 para edição de áudio.
Seguindo o tema proposto, “Luz e Óleo”, o dourado da logo do ministério, utilizando um vídeo de água como fundo, trabalhando com text animate, scale, tracking e blur.
Para o áudio, a sonora de uma ministração da pastora, um BG e efeitos do pacote Pro Scores – Cinematic Music Design Tools, VideoCopilot.net.

Confira o resultado!

Até o próximo post!

“Keep the Fire Burning!” – 2010 is coming!

This E4 Advert by Ben Cavers is really good for a first attempt!  James taught him the animation on AfterEffects.

BOOM. Thoughts?

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Here you will see the script, 3d models, storyboards, conceptual art, technical information and test footage for the film The Outing.

I took some photos of a tunnel at Bournemouth train station. I was planning to have a shot of a tunnel at the end of my animation to represent, habituation, which is the breaking of the cycle of tinnitus. I went into photoshop and created layers for the walls and the pathway. Then I imported the photoshop file into After Effects and created a 3D environment so I could use the camera tool. I then moved the camera forwards to create the illusion of someone walking through the tunnel.

Here is a practice piece of the animation.

I will be adding special effects to the tunnel shot. I’m not quite sure how I exactly want it to look yet, but once I’ve tried out a few effects I should have some idea.

If you’ve made a pre-comp (e.g. Spin Orbs) and you want to duplicate it but change some of the elements (e.g. colour) duplicating in the comp and then modifying, changes all instances.

Instead in the project window, copy and paste and then you have a completely separate instance.

NB: You can duplicate the pre-comp in place in the comp window, then do an ALT + drag from the project window to replace the clip with your newly created separate instance (has the benefit of retaining all the settings of the first pre-comp – i.e. postition in timeline etc). .

Here is the link to the Connect Session I filled in for Premiere CS4 for beginners.

A very quick runthrough on some of the features that people new to Premiere may not be aware of.

Para la seccion 2 la porxima clase es la solemne y para la seccion 1 la clase sub-siguiente!

recuerden seguir las instrucciones del encargo!

saludos

Vinheta feita para a produtora Terra Filmes, onde a mesma inicia seu demoreel.

Demo Reel Terra Filmes onde foi usada a peça.