Thanksgiving Day Class Promo
Business Card Mockup
Nutrition Website Banner
I needed to create a banner for the Nutrition portion of the Light Wellness website, and the client wanted it to match the other banners on the site. We didn't have access to the original photoshoot location, so I had to get creative. This video breaks down most of the compositing process.
Grow Above
A swirl of roots, branches and leaves from above ... made using SpeedTree, Maya and After Effects.
Letter Ohm
Another installment in my "Daily Alphabet" endeavor ... representation of the letter "O". Built using C4D and composited in After Effects.
Nebula
Aside from the music, which was composed in Logic, this was all generated, comped and rendered using Adobe After Effects.
Monochromatic
This one brought me back, to my early days of perspective drawing and drafting. The "M" was created entirely in Adobe Line, on my iPad. I saved-out multiple pieces of the image, and then assembled it all in PS. I appreciate that it somewhat looks like I colored it with a felt tip pen, on real paper.
Keepin it Real
I took a pre-modeled and rigged, 3D model, and posed it .... then, I gave it some pop in AE.
Jumbled J
This is actually 3D geometry, fractured in Houdini, and then comped in Photoshop.
Define tHemself
Geometry, lighting and atmosphere in Maya, with final compositing in Photoshop.
What the F
Letter "F" ... more After Effects ... you know how we do ... !!
e-Z Does It
All "E" in After Effects ...
C-Scapes
Letter "C" for city-scapes ... in After Effects.
What's Under B
Underwater letter "B" ... created and composited entirely in After Effects.
Daily Letter A
My inception of the daily letter ... "A" Created and composited in After Effects.
The Five Elements
A stab at the 5 elements ... air, water, fire, earth and space/ether. I know ... it doesn't look real, but I wasn't going for realness ... think of a dreamscape. I used SpeedTree, RealFlow, Z-Brush, Maya and AE.
Night Before Christmas
First off, I'll admit that a lot of this video is really bad ... I was brand new to After Effects and I was pushing my limits. I took as many of Andrew Kramer's tutorials as I could, and pieced them together, as creatively as possible, to form a story. I then burnt this story to DVD and gave it as a Christmas gift. Let's count the Video Copilot tuturials, in order ... Smoke Screen, Disintegration, Flip-Book Motion, Earth Zoom, Day to Night Conversion, Submerged, Frosty Breath, 3D Camera Projection, 3D Light Casting ...
Psycho
When I put this together I was rehearsing for a contemporary dance version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The show's artistic director, Lane Hunter, chose a piece of music by Go Percussion for part of the soundtrack. This video's music, which I made in Apple Logic, is meant to sound like the before mentioned song by Go Percussion. The visual elements, including the falling and splattering rain, the rain drops streaking down the glass, and the text, were all created and composited in After Effects.
SoulPlay Traffic Light
Created and composited using After Effects. The background footage is real, but everything else is generated using shapes and filters.
Tracking Test
I captured some footage on the way home from work, with my iPhone 4, and then set out to integrate text and other elements into the scene. The first step was tracking. I used Nuke, with its planar and point trackers. Tracking was a lot more difficult than expected, the reason for which, I now realize, may have been partially because I didn't correct for any rolling shutter (the iPhone has a CMOS sensor). I painted a clean plate and/or sign for the street car in Photoshop, and composited everything together in Nuke.
Chessboard
This is an admittedly short shot, that will hopefully, eventually be one small part of a bigger picture. The scenery in the background, other than the clouds, which are in an image sequence, is a composite of still images (if you don't believe me, just watch the bush, which should be moving). I modeled, textured and rendered the chess pieces in Maya, and composited everything in After Effects.
Open Doors
The light at the end of the dark tunnel ... new doorways ... new opportunities.
Modeled and rendered in Maya, and then altered in Photoshop.
"Those who live in the past limit their future."
Meteor Strike
Using a tutorial by Andrew Kramer, of Video Copilot, I captured my own footage on my iPhone4 and created my own version. Maya and After Effects. No audio.
Exploding Transformer
Composited totally in After Effects, using footage captured with my iPhone4. No audio.
Battlestar Galactica
I know, the title gives it away. It's quick mock-up, that hopefully looks familiar. What can I say ... the show was a guilty pleasure of mine for a while.
This image is entirely 2.5-D (no 3D elements), and was done in After Effects.
Battlestar 3D
A variation on the previous Battlestar Galactica image, involving true 3D rendered text and volumetric light. Made in Maya.