This project took me a while to come up with a concept, and I believe that I didnt think it over as well as I could have, but nevertheless am still happy with my end result.
Much thanks to my good friend "AZZA" also for being the star of my short film.
Today we were introduced to masking in After Effects, these are 2 animations made with masking.
The first one using 2 layers, one the regular giraffe photo and the other being the x-ray image of that giraffe. Using the masking feature I moved the mask around the giraffe to reveal different areas of the underneath layer.
The second animation was made using a transperent photoshop document. Using the mask feature slowly revealed the vine as if it was growing. I had some trouble with this one uploading it to YouTube, so stay tuned and it should be uploaded soon!
We spent half the day shooting bracketed photos down at Frankston Foreshore, this is a really exciting way to take photos, I came out with some pretty good shots, had a great time doing it and plan on doing many more!
MIA AND MYSELF taken by Tom Aluza
Here are some of my favourite shots I came out with from that day at Frankston Foreshore.
I am planning on purchasing the HDR program called Photomatix, which is the program I used to merge these bracketed photos, unfortunately because I have not purchased it as yet, my photos have a Photomatix waterark on them.
This is the first animation I made using Adobe After Effects, the idea was to create an animation using pictures and sound. Here is the finished product.
At first this assignment worried me a bit because we were pressed for time and to get the lighting correct you must do all 300 shots in the one sitting, however we had to do half of them then come back later to complete it, it didnt look right having done it this way so I decided to start over at home using a blackboard, had a light set up next to the blackboard so the lighting wouldnt change throughout the stop motion. And here is my end result, enjoy! WEBSTER
First I would like to say a big THANKYOU to David Trout for organising this excursion for us.
We started out at the National Gallery of Victoria and saw some amazing pieces including one of my personal favourites Picasso! Took alot of photos here but then unfortunately my battery died :( After the gallery we had a quick lunch break then moved onto ACMI. I thought ACMI was the best part of the whole day, had an ball with all the interactive things they had there! Myself, Mia and Jarryd, classmates of mine decided to give the Matrix thing a go, the videos turned out great! Here is the best one we came up with!
After ACMI we went to Hosier Lane just off Flinders Street. This is where alot of the famous graffiti pieces live and constantly change. My classmate Tom was kind enough to lend me one of his spare cameras since mine was dead, so took a decent ammount of photos at Hosier Lane including a Hockney piece will I will post later on.
Then we headed over to RMIT to have a look at their gallery which involved Japanese Anime from 1950's - 2000's and another area dedicated to China and Revolution: History, Parody and Memory in Contemporary Art.
