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.