The Video

Bays Final: A Compilation of Work I've been doing from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

Killer Final

My final isn't a story or a complete work. It's a compilation of things i've been working on for two docs and a narrative.

the first end credits for my doc were done in AE by motion tracking-almost all done frame by frame-the bike light under the girl. i targeted the titles to follow the nulls, one for each title so that they follow the motion of the bike-in-the-camera.

the following two animations were a couple of the animation i made for my doc. the first liberally uses puppet tools along with basic transforms for the blood cells. the background is liquified and a solid is behind it so that the moving borders won't show black behind them.

the titles for my friend chelsea's doc "feMCee" i did by key lighting out the backgrounds used for the artist to draw the titles. the lighting wasn't consistent and the background was a different color than the glove the artist was wearing and his skin tone. i used on average three key lights and two color keys to get everything out. i also did lyrics for her doc that took multiple color keys.

the last is part of the climax scene from logan and my narrative "berenice". the green screen has been extremely difficult to work with because it was shot on the studio cameras, which are DV. the key lights were tweaked for two weeks and look presentable with the help of a simple choker and color correction. there are also multiple nulls on most of the shots because i didn't think to use tracking points and so have to find/invent them throughout the shots so that i can use motion tracking to make sure the window looks like it belongs in the scene.

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this is the link to the video, it's still uploading

http://www.vimeo.com/8037459

final-progress

fine-ish cut for doc class to comment on from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

hi! a fine-ish cut of my doc. there is simple after effects work in it but if i could get the damn tilt shifting to work, it would be more advanced (or look more advanced ;D ) it's all effects, transforms, and mask work. the narrative work i'll be posting is a lot harder. above are some images i used

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oh! and the animation at the end is just a placeholder, it isn't mine. sketches of people will be going there

music by arcade fire also isn't mine and is a placeholder as well

Particles

Lady Blows Away from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

i wasn't really getting particles. at first i had pink blood cells shooting out of the dolls' eyes and into her mouth but that made no sense at all. ben helped me use cc particle system to follow a mask down her image.-moving the anchor point of the particles to follow the mask makes the particles seem to be her body blowing away.

green screen

green screen from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

since marcy and i are killing each other ninja style, i thought a lovely video in the background of cherry blossom trees would be apropos. while i love the keylight, i don't think (again) that i spent enough time on this project trying to figure out how to fix the green spill-on-skin problem. it was a little challenging getting the green out of marcy's hair and away from the weapons.

motion tracking

note: this isn't from vimeo. the bastards accused me of using all my weekly allowance of memory.

hi. this is my motion tracking assignment. i shot the footage last spring and thought (i.e. russ suggested) that it would be cool if a reflection of somebody who isn't actually there walked by in the background. The third key in from the center is the key i tracked because it stays in the same area most of the time. the reflection is the guy in our class who walked by the green screen with his hood pulled up (i don't remember who that was, ack). i keyed out the background and with oodles of ben's help, got him to walk through by first pre-composing him and with the use of a mask so that he comes through the right area. He follows the null that is attached to the track point. his image is distorted so that he looks like he's walking past the back of the man playing the piano with a corner pin effect.

AE Text

Untitled from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

great. so. this is playing around with text. it's a bunch of opacity animators timed separately. the coolest effect happens when you do one letter at a time like i did with my name, but i didn't have enough time to do it. i'd like to keep expanding on this one. i think the concept is cool, but the project kind of hastily done.