AEProject 2

Lady with some Business Going On from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

i'm not super proud of this project. it's weird looking. the things i did differently from the last one was puppet the waves on her hips (a bit hard to see) and the flames around her waist. the energy swirls around her have opacity changes. the chakras that move behind her are mattes. there's a picture of flames and sparks that i took awhile ago...there. not really knowing what mattes do, it took me stumbling along to figure out how to make them. the purple thing behind her head is a polystar shape with pucker and bloats added to it.

AEProject1

Untitled from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

The pink things are cherry blossoms. I took the branches and flowers off the internet and cut them out as masks in photoshop. i got the branches into after effects, then completely erased my flowers composition. so, using the pen tool, i cut out each flower as a mask. the background is another layer that i applied filters to in photoshop in order to make it b&w, and messed with the levels.

note: i had windy sound, but it managed to slip away.

all of the flowers are parented to the branch. it moves with a rotation transform. i applied the wiggler to the flowers that stay on the branches so that they move with the branch. the rest of the flowers all have rotation and position transforms. some of the flowers' position keyframes are set to rove across time, and most of the them have ease in and outs on the keyframes where the position changes abruptly. it took a really long time to do each flower because after finishing each one, i watched how they all moved together in order to figure out where the next flower should go. some of the flowers i scaled so that they look either like they are coming at the screen or flying away from it.

Bays Assignment 1: Photoshop

Ta Da! This image is a bit random (possibly cheesy), but it's my first attempt at photoshop. It's composed of four pictures I've taken on film during traveling. The mountain background and elephant are both masks that i cut around using the polygonal lasso tool. The magnetic lasso tool turned out to be my nemesis.

The shadow under the little elephants' feet was created using the "multiply" option under the layers tab. Her legs were lengthened using the clone tool. The street running through the middle of the composition had to be manipulated using the transform tools scale, flip horizontally, rotate, skew, perspective, and free transform, and it also has a mask. Getting around the chairs and shadows from peoples feet took awhile, but two shape tool lines helped layout the perspective at which the road should lie in order to look like a sidewalk. The elephant and the street both have mask adjustments on them for feathered-ness (new word, pass it on), radius, contrast and smooth.