Something I would love to learn how to create are all the "straws" that form the portal around the :48 mark and seen throughout. They seem to be effected by the sound of the music so their animation must be parented to the audio. Also at 1:02 and 1:08 the rotating portals are really fun to watch but I guess they were made in Processing and not in AE. I make that guess based on their similarities to the fractal pattern at the end of the Casino Royale opening. But alas! I will see what I can figure out in AE.
Showing posts with label Portal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portal. Show all posts
Friday, September 28, 2012
Analyzing Motion Graphics
This past week my favorite record label, Spinnin' Records, released a preview to a new song by Alex Kenji and Leon Boiler.
What I find really fun to do now that I know more about After Effects is to watch videos and try to analyze what they did. It looks like they put a wiggle expression on the camera to make it shake throughout. There are also a couple of color flares thrown in here and there that are pretty easy to make in After Effects.
Something I would love to learn how to create are all the "straws" that form the portal around the :48 mark and seen throughout. They seem to be effected by the sound of the music so their animation must be parented to the audio. Also at 1:02 and 1:08 the rotating portals are really fun to watch but I guess they were made in Processing and not in AE. I make that guess based on their similarities to the fractal pattern at the end of the Casino Royale opening. But alas! I will see what I can figure out in AE.
Something I would love to learn how to create are all the "straws" that form the portal around the :48 mark and seen throughout. They seem to be effected by the sound of the music so their animation must be parented to the audio. Also at 1:02 and 1:08 the rotating portals are really fun to watch but I guess they were made in Processing and not in AE. I make that guess based on their similarities to the fractal pattern at the end of the Casino Royale opening. But alas! I will see what I can figure out in AE.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Think with Portals, not Safety
So I stumbled across this video while looking to purchase a replica of the Aperture Laboratories' famous portal gun from the critically acclaimed video game series Portal. Portal is a first-person puzzle-platformer released in 2007 by the Valve Corperation. At first it was a bundle package but then later it was released as a standalone game with additional features as well as a port to the Mac OS X.
This video was created Portal fan and Minnesotian Jason Craft. After studying Visual Effects and Motion Graphics for a few years at The Art Institutes International Minnesota, he now works as a compositor for a company called Ghost Productions, a 3D medical animation studio in promotional marketing, surgical technique, and surgeon and patient education. Janson made this video a few months ago and has been tweaking it ever since to get it just right. Using a combination of Maya for modeling & lighting, After Effects to composite, and some more other software.
Public access to professional grade software has really been a great asset to movie-making fanboys as well as people movie-watching fanboys and allows for user created videos like this one and many more. Check them out!
This video was created Portal fan and Minnesotian Jason Craft. After studying Visual Effects and Motion Graphics for a few years at The Art Institutes International Minnesota, he now works as a compositor for a company called Ghost Productions, a 3D medical animation studio in promotional marketing, surgical technique, and surgeon and patient education. Janson made this video a few months ago and has been tweaking it ever since to get it just right. Using a combination of Maya for modeling & lighting, After Effects to composite, and some more other software.
Public access to professional grade software has really been a great asset to movie-making fanboys as well as people movie-watching fanboys and allows for user created videos like this one and many more. Check them out!
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