davidmattingly
03-20-2009, 10:15 AM
Hi all--
New week your final "Cities of the future" are due, and I will check each one for the required elements. Please note that they are as follows:
1. You will need 5 elements to track into the final plate, like buildings, megastructures, whatever will be in New York in the far future.
2. One element must change color over time, like a billboard.
3. One element must float over the city, like a giant floating megastructure, or air cars, or space ships.
4. You must replace some of the buildings with futuristic structures. This can be one of your 5 elements, but I want some of the work integrated into the existing city.
5. I would like for you all to add at least one Trapcode Particular effect. I put an example of a slow smoke effect on my teacher folder that you can look at--add a Particular effect, and then load that in as a preset. As I mentioned, I have always found it harder to add a slow, subtle effect that to add magic fairy dust whizzing around the frame, so to get a realistic smoke effect will take some effort. By the way, the bump in the demo on Thursday was because I was trying to add a Particular effect to a 3D layer--that is not allowed in trapcode. You can, however, add it as a 2D effect, or add it as a comped effect.
6. For you After Effects experts, you can replace the sky. This is for extra credit.
Also, remember that this must be comped into live action footage. I have had students in past semester who have escentially created a flat version of their scene, then panned over it in After Effects. This will not be allowed for this assignment. It is sometimes hard to tell in the little low rez versions posted on mattepainting.org, but it will show up on the final, high rez version you bring into class.
Please post your final rendered version on mattepainting.org at 1/4 or 1/3 scale (something around 6 or 7 hundred pixels wide) before midnight Wednesday night, and also render out 2 versions for class. Both will be full resolution, one using the Sorenson 3 codec, and one using the animation codec. The animation version is for your files--you want to always keep a pristine version of your work in case you want to use it in the future. The Sorenson 3 version is for us to all look at in class--expect a live critique in more depth than I can do online.
This final city is a major part of your grade, so please make sure you have all of the required elements in your composition. I will fail any student who does not have all of them.
Some individual notes:
Max Thomas: You missed last weeks homework entirely, so you might want to e-mail me your progress during the week so your can catch up.
Dan Pochtrager: You must not use that temp plate for your final city. If you cannot shoot a new plate, you can use the new plate I put on the teachers folder. You can color correct you existing city in After effects if you like like I showed this week, or repaint it to match the new plate.
Dan Bradham: I raised your grade to a "C" because you did get the video in, albeit late. I did this because you have a nice project, and I didn't want to tank your grade, but I won't do it again. Get your assignments in on time.
Next weeks class will start with 2 film reports (we got a little backed up last week), one from Andrea Lowery on Milos Forman’s “ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, and the other from Dan Bradham Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Stangelove”.
Remember, you need:
1. A one minute synopsis of the film. Just the major themes of it, not a point by point recounting of what happens.
2. Your one to two minute reaction to the film. Did you like it, dislike it, what was effective in it?
3. A short clip of a scene you thought was particularly effective. Clip the scene out of the movie beforehand--don't go hunting for it in class. Put the clip on a folder when you can find it to show the class.
Dan, make sure you watch the 1965 version staring Peter Sellers and directed by Stanely Kubrick, not the recent remake starring Steven Seagal directed by Joel Schumacher.
David Mattingly
New week your final "Cities of the future" are due, and I will check each one for the required elements. Please note that they are as follows:
1. You will need 5 elements to track into the final plate, like buildings, megastructures, whatever will be in New York in the far future.
2. One element must change color over time, like a billboard.
3. One element must float over the city, like a giant floating megastructure, or air cars, or space ships.
4. You must replace some of the buildings with futuristic structures. This can be one of your 5 elements, but I want some of the work integrated into the existing city.
5. I would like for you all to add at least one Trapcode Particular effect. I put an example of a slow smoke effect on my teacher folder that you can look at--add a Particular effect, and then load that in as a preset. As I mentioned, I have always found it harder to add a slow, subtle effect that to add magic fairy dust whizzing around the frame, so to get a realistic smoke effect will take some effort. By the way, the bump in the demo on Thursday was because I was trying to add a Particular effect to a 3D layer--that is not allowed in trapcode. You can, however, add it as a 2D effect, or add it as a comped effect.
6. For you After Effects experts, you can replace the sky. This is for extra credit.
Also, remember that this must be comped into live action footage. I have had students in past semester who have escentially created a flat version of their scene, then panned over it in After Effects. This will not be allowed for this assignment. It is sometimes hard to tell in the little low rez versions posted on mattepainting.org, but it will show up on the final, high rez version you bring into class.
Please post your final rendered version on mattepainting.org at 1/4 or 1/3 scale (something around 6 or 7 hundred pixels wide) before midnight Wednesday night, and also render out 2 versions for class. Both will be full resolution, one using the Sorenson 3 codec, and one using the animation codec. The animation version is for your files--you want to always keep a pristine version of your work in case you want to use it in the future. The Sorenson 3 version is for us to all look at in class--expect a live critique in more depth than I can do online.
This final city is a major part of your grade, so please make sure you have all of the required elements in your composition. I will fail any student who does not have all of them.
Some individual notes:
Max Thomas: You missed last weeks homework entirely, so you might want to e-mail me your progress during the week so your can catch up.
Dan Pochtrager: You must not use that temp plate for your final city. If you cannot shoot a new plate, you can use the new plate I put on the teachers folder. You can color correct you existing city in After effects if you like like I showed this week, or repaint it to match the new plate.
Dan Bradham: I raised your grade to a "C" because you did get the video in, albeit late. I did this because you have a nice project, and I didn't want to tank your grade, but I won't do it again. Get your assignments in on time.
Next weeks class will start with 2 film reports (we got a little backed up last week), one from Andrea Lowery on Milos Forman’s “ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, and the other from Dan Bradham Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Stangelove”.
Remember, you need:
1. A one minute synopsis of the film. Just the major themes of it, not a point by point recounting of what happens.
2. Your one to two minute reaction to the film. Did you like it, dislike it, what was effective in it?
3. A short clip of a scene you thought was particularly effective. Clip the scene out of the movie beforehand--don't go hunting for it in class. Put the clip on a folder when you can find it to show the class.
Dan, make sure you watch the 1965 version staring Peter Sellers and directed by Stanely Kubrick, not the recent remake starring Steven Seagal directed by Joel Schumacher.
David Mattingly