3DSFX Project 1

Final Video

Storyboard

This is my first project for 3DSFX. I took a long time thinking of kind of story I should do. And finally, I decided to make an introduction video of nature. The references for After Effects that I used were from video copilot. The 3 tutorials that I used were called, "Moving 3D Lines", "Elegant Slideshow", and "Text Blur Titles". These tutorials were categorized as motion graphics.

"Moving 3D Lines" were used at the beginning of the video. It creates flowing light streams by using the fractal noise. Also, the tutorial teaches how to add 3D particles like as though they are coming out from the light streams and, adding camera move for a 3D rotation. But I did not use the camera move effect because I think it was not necessary to add in.

In the middle part of the video, I used the elegant slideshow effect to arrange the images in sequence using After Effects. It also has the dissolve effect after an image is shown for a number of seconds. 

As for the text effect, I used the text blur titles tutorial. It teaches me how to animate the text in a different way together with the blur effect. A lens flare is added to enhance the animation.

Initially, I had this idea of doing motion graphics for vector design. But after looking through the tutorial on YouTube, it is actually quite tough to do because there is a need to draw the vines part by part and animate them. Also, it requires a lot of time doing it.

Week 3

Warriors Way - Flashback

For the first video, I had to change the color to an orange tone.  

Warriors Way - Showdown

The second video I had to change the color to blue-gray like color.

Pope 

Red Flag

The videos on the Pope and the red flag I only need to make the red color less striking so that it does not overpower the rest of the picture. This is because red is a warm color, and it is the most outstanding color.

Simple Bleach Bypass

This tutorial is also quite easy to do. It teaches me how to add color contrast and brightness of the picture.

Children Color Correction

Landscape Color Correction

For the 2 videos on the children and the landscape, I just had to apply the same technique as the previous tutorial. I managed to adjust the hue, saturation, lightness and contrast.

Overall, the whole exercise was quite enjoyable and easy to manage.

Week 2

 Fringe

It took me a short while to do this exercise. I just had to apply the tracking technique which I've learn from the previous tutorial and finally, I replaced the monitor screen with another video.

Track Matte

This was an easy exercise. I did not have any problems doing it because it was just like the basics of After Effects. Overall, I find it fun to do.

James Bond

This exercise was very difficult to do. It is actually quite interesting to do this because it teaches me more about designing graphics and creating an illusion reality in a creative way. But I had to spend long hours doing this tutorial and it was quite tiring to do.

Week 1

Faucet Drops

Light Bulb

Recycle Bin


Blood Splatter


Motorcycle


Sky Replacement


Set Extension


Orchard ION


Halo Reach Launch

Reflection

This is my very first exercise on After Effects. There are quite a number of things for me to learn. It was quite complicated to do at first because I had to do it step-by-step. Some of the video tutorials are very long when in fact, the steps to do After Effects is quite short. It took me a while to complete an exercise. The things that I have learn so far were animating and compositing Basics, key-framing, masks and mattes, creating transparency, motion tracking and replacement. I did the replacement of text, and how I could adjust the speed of animation. These are similar to Flash. Masks and mattes are used in green screen post-processing. From my point of view, masks and mattes are something like replacement - to replace a certain object with another object. Also, I have learn that motion tracking allows the insertion of computer graphics into live-action video with the right position, scale, orientation, and motion relative to the photographed objects in the shot. It is used to track camera movement. Overall, I still find After Effects interesting if only I'm able to do more than this.