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.