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.

Project 4

Inside the Womb from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

This is the inside of a womb with white blood cells, red blood cells ready for an x-ray and a virus in the background. The uterus was created by taking a jpeg into photoshop and turning it into a 3D primitive. I exported it into after effects and used psds of the cells that i had masked in photoshop. they are positioned using the x,y, and z coordinates and have scale , position and orientation keyframes on them. the camera navigates forward with no real direction. when it flips, imagine a baby getting ready to liberate itself.

ben sat with me almost the entire time i did this. it was really confusing getting from photoshop 3D to after effects.

AE Projproj 3

This is...my dog from Jordan Torres on Vimeo.

I hope this lame intro misleads you. the rest of it makes me laugh every time i watch it. i followed a tutorial online to create the text... it does have a mask to create the vignette look and a couple of sweet eases. and who could hate the lens flare?

the rest is my dog. there are two masks to create the three lovelies on the couch. i was hoping someone (ben or anyone else) could help me figure out how to fix the left leg on the middle dog. i had to adjust the mask in order to fit in the nose of the far right dog but it made that leg look pretty bad.