VFX Toolbox – Videography

vfx toolbox level 4

introduction to after effects

Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe; it is used in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing, and animation. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor, and media transcoder. In 2019, the program won an Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement.

TITLE SEQUENCE

INVESTEGATION:

STRONG VISUAL GEOMETRY
RECURRING IMAGERY (TROPES)
LAYERING
introduction to After Effects
JAMES BOLD INSPIRED

refences and inspiration

Django Unchained Title Sequence (youtube.com)

The Dark Knight Intro (2008) (youtube.com)

Spider-Man 3 | Opening Sequence | Fullscreen | 4K UPSCALE (youtube.com)

after effects TITLE SEQUENCE

after effects design – 007 bounce

INVESTEGATION:

STRONG VISUAL GEOMETRY

MY 007 bounce TITLE SEQUENCE VIDEO

after effects TITLE SEQUENCE

Doctor no sequence

INVESTEGATION:

STRONG VISUAL GEOMETRY
RECURRING IMAGERY
LAYERING

after effects design – doctor no

MY JAMES BOND DOCTOR NO INSPIRED TITLE SEQUENCE VIDEO

after effects TITLE SEQUENCE

James Bold inspired title sequence

Investigation:

Alpha Channels
Layer transparency
Masks
Mattes (Alpha and Luma)
Importing footage
Using Blending modes

refences and inspiration

Photoshop design – cards

after effects design

My James Bond inspired title sequence video (final)

after effects TITLE SEQUENCE

green screen and cameras

Investigation:

Keying principles
Transparency
Green screen
Cameras / lighting for this setup

refences and inspiration

after effects TITLE SEQUENCE

TRACKING AND PLACEMENT

investegation: amazon anchor

Both on timeline
Select jungle clip and ‘track motion’ of pyramid
Edit target and select label
Apply moving data (comment about Null )
Select lable
Change scale to 60%
Adjust Anchor points to make circle of label around the tacker

after effects design – amazon tracking

inivestation: 2 Face tracking masks mosaic faces football boys

Create comp
Duplicate clip on timeline
Hide bottom layer
Select top clip pen tool to mask
Select tool select mask, tracker Perspective
Effect>Stylise>Mosiac
Blocks 150×150
Unhide bottom layer

after effects design – blur face

inivestation: 3d Text Environment

Create comp
Track Camera (explain tracking and solving using parallax movement)
Select tracked markers right click create text and camera
Create Text
Tidy text, maybe roto

after effects design – floating words

inivestation: Clean up Archway

Create comp
Duplicate clip
Hide lower clip
Top clip create mask with pen tool
Track using perspective
Got to mask and change to subtractive
Content aware fill set to ‘Surface’
Generate Fill layer (it will ask you to save first, as it needs to generate and save a stills sequence.
Unhide bottom layer to compare

after effects design – archway

inivestation: Perspective Corner Pin

Create comp
Duplicate clip
Hide lower clip
Perspective Corner Pin
track motion
motion blend

after effects – 3d space

investegation:

how to use After Effects 3D space works.
3d cAMERA ANGLES
LIGHT SYSTEM
POSITON
CAMERA PERSPECTIVE

MAYA ASSETS FOR after effects

investegation:

Render pass AOV setuP
Setup samples
AOVs How to video
Combining the AOV
Mattes
Split the EXR file
Create the comp from different render layers
Set the layer blending modes
How to create Cryptomattes
Using Cryptomattes to adjust the look of the scene

continue in after effects…

MAYA ASSETS USED IN AFTER EFFECTS

investegation:

CONTINUE TO AFTER EFFECTS
exr save scene for maya imports
lighting effects

MAYA and after effects assingment 1

investegation:

Rendering
Maya and after affects
showreel
Render Layer setup
Compositing After Effects

link to showreel below

https://youtu.be/sa7gz1IUB8k

MAYA ASSETS used in after effects

investegation:

Types of output – cause and effect animation and film
Cause and Effects Animation with BULLET in Maya
Setting up simple Dynamics
Setting up BULLET attributes
Working through different scenarios

maya annimation – dominos

maya annimation – genger

assignment 2 will need to produce a James Bond title sequence

investegation:

What different effects can you apply to your planned sequence
Research the Bond titles, choose some different shots that you might recreate (in your own way) for your sequence
You choose a villain to help focus and give a sense of narrative
Choose a short piece of audio
Create a storyboard, plan for a few different shots that include green screen and silhouettes, 3d models, simulation or particles, 2D or 2.5D animation.

My sequence will start by

Video 1 fitting into my suit and checking it fits correctly and push my hair back this can be done at university.

video 2 will be my broken iPhone and will attached a message to the phone video

Video 3 will skip to me walking out the casino and down the stairs

video 4 will skip to me walking to the car slow angle

Video 5 is from my car and will put into gear

Video 6 will be very low shot of me pulling away in my car

Video 7 I will film from my car video of a drive

Video 8 then will skip to another video of me getting out the car in low frame shot

Video 10 will be in my accommodation hallway and I will walk up to my room door and knock on the door of the contract kill

Video 11 cuts to my friend videoing the door open and me pulling out my gun to point it at his head ( pointing straight at the camera ) could be done at uni.