Composite Movie: Honey I Shrunk the Kids

After the Photoshop project, Mr. Caldwell had the students flatten the peice into one layer and import it into Adobe After Effects. Here the students used the position key frames on a blown up picture of their composite. When the path was set, the students rendered the finished project into a QuickTime Movie.

Artist's Note: The quality of the video is fairly good with some pixelated areas. The path view is a little wacky due to my first time using Adobe After Effects.

Shrinking Man Movie

Provided with the images from Mr. Caldwell, the students were to show "The Incredable Shirnking Man". With the goal of showing key points in the images, the students used position and scale keyframes. Creating the effect of a man who had shrunk, the finished project was rendered into a QuickTime Movie.

Artist's Note: The quality of the movie is good, but the quality of the images exspanded is a little poor. The last images is in french.

Mask Layers Movies

In this projects, the students experimented with mask layering fonts and pictures. Black cuts out and white shows; meaning with a mask, the black will show or hide the picture underneath, while white shows the picture on top. Each student made 4 different compositions with different mask layers.

Comp 1: 1 gradient mask; animated, 2 photos; static (upper left)
Comp 2: 1 text mask; animated, 2 photos;static (upper right)
Comp 3: 1 gradient mask; static, 1 text layer; animated (bottom right)
Comp 4: artist's choice (bottom left)

With all the compositions the fifth composite required all four compostions. The final project was then rendered into a QuickTime Movie. Then the movie was imported into Adobe Premier 2.0 for better quality.

Artist's Note: My favorite project, I got to use pictures for my favorite anime characters.
Dark and Krad (DN Angel), Son Goku (Saiyuki), Mizuki and Sano (Hana Kimi)

Greenscreen: Lightning

The students recorded the Interactive Media teacher and a few other students. They were then imported into Adobe After Effects and put together to create the lightning effect.

The the .avi file was imported into Adobe Premier for better quality.

Artist's Note: Muahahaha lightning

Rotoscoping: Grabbing Hands

The students recorded the Interactive Media teacher and imported the clip into Adobe After Effects. Then they recorded a pair of hands grabbing nothing and imported it into After Effects. Then the two were put together and formed the final copy by masking the screenplay in Adobe Phtotoshop.

The the .avi file was imported into Adobe Premier for better quality.

Artist's Note: The shadow is misplaced.