Split screen Project
https://youtube.com/KgpMX7ZIrdA
Stop motion Project
Tech Ex 08 motion graphics
Motion graphics Mini project
The two of the main motion graphics were an interesting side projecting to complete as after effects is a program that’s completely new to me. However the almost 2 hour video was a slog to get through and the video does not have fine scrubbing so when I missed something I would have to watch 10-20 seconds to get to the part I missed. The 3rd hello effect would not work no matter how many times I tried.
Part One: Forest of Weightlessness
The scene begins with a shot of a forest pond that is a mixture of real sticks and grass and modeling clay. Serene yet discordant music sets the ominous but beautiful scene as a familiar uncanny clay humanoid figure drifts ever slowly towards the pond. Suddenly clay hands begin to form from pond and reach outwards towards the humanoid figure as the scene comes to a sudden close as the music segways into the next segment.
Part Two: Baptism by Blood
This new scene opens to a similar but drastically different setting; we are greeted to a forest now demented and completely unrecognizable. The trees have been replaced by uncanny and alien looking trees shaped like lungs, the pond is now an ocean of blood and among the lung trees we can spot a returning character barely visible as a lung tree sprouts from its chest. An ominous figure with tentacle like protrusions sprouting from its face comes into the scene, it appears to be some sort of otherworldly priest. The priest is followed by the clay humanoid from part one as it is hauled into the ocean of blood like a baptism. The scene concludes as the figure fades into the ocean of blood.
Independent project Rough edit
Note wordpress would not let me embed this video for some reason
Final Edit
Independent Reflection
For me this course was a large learning curve to overcome having to understand the basic elements of premiere pro and how to properly navigate it as well as learning to have patience with the program as it would soft crash every now and then. Despite my issues I was able to grind through and fully understand each effect and the intricacies of them. The most troubling effect to understand was the ultra key as the blue screen made keying the forest foreground difficult as it would key the wrong shades as it did not shade well. Once my ultra key issue was solved, I encounter another bug this time clicking export would do nothing and I would have to click the export tab. The last bug that I encountered a lot was Premiere pro completely breaking and disconnecting my displays as well as any audio that was playing, the issue would persist for 10 seconds before returning to normal. The second and most annoying part of the glitch is that the video preview window would break and be unusable. Project wise I found using Stop motion studio to be interesting but quite limited: I would have like if it could change the speed independent from frames as I want to use 30 fps but not have it sped up. Another area which impacted my process slightly is the previous frame overlay where you could have the last frame transparent over the current video was quite finicky in how it was just another window instead of being a clickable option from the main menu, if I wanted to delete a frame, I would have to click the screen twice sometimes moving the camera itself. The Clay itself was quite easy to form but I found it difficult to make smaller objects as the clay would not hold itself up which was vital for making my proposed lung tree as making accurate bronchioles would take a larger scale which I don’t have the space for. My final grievance/learning hurdle was making each clay model be able to stand at all which is why I chose to green screen most of everything saving me the time to make each clay model structural. Overall, I will continue to do more Claymation and work on my editing skills and as well as ways I can perfect the art of clay and how I choose to express my ideas through it.
