Living inside a Pollock After effects animation

After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics

After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics

Creating storyboards in After Effects

After Effects: Principles of Motion Graphics | by Ian Robinson

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Amazing Fire Illusion!

How To Celebrate Diwali

Diwali Festival of lights

Diwali Festival of Light - inspiration for 'FIRE' video installation

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/india/diwali-lights-festival.html

Edward de Bono Six Thinking Hats (1of6)

Edward de Bono on creative thinking

Tuesday, February 22nd

Well, it certainly has been a busy 1st week of the semester, with lots of assignments already needing to be completed within the next couple of weeks. 

1. create a stop motion stroke by stroke animation consisting of 360 photographs. This was a challenging project as both cameras that i had borrowed where faulty. But after a lot of trial and error managed to get one of them working but still had a lot of problems with it's focus function.
Decided to use calligraphy text onto black card using white gouache for the animation. Had to do several re-writes whilst trying to get the camera to function properly. Learnt lots about what not to do: firstly get to know the camera I am going to use very well, so that i know how to correct any function problems. Secondly avoid writing on black as it caused a lot of problems when lighting it, and had to just use natural daylight for the best representation of the black, indoor lighting causes the card to look greyish brown.

2. take several photos that can be used in After Effects.
3. decide on a way to create a video with the theme 'FIRE'.
4. write a proposal in detail about the equipment needed and cost of setting up a video installation. Be aware of the location of the installation.

5. design an installation to go with the FIRE video (have never done anything like this before).
6. take at least 40 photos to be collaged into 1 single image - re: David Hockney style

today...

Learnt how to add audio and titles to Premier Pro from my DVD video tutorials.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

continued.... 

7. Map project: gather images, ideas relevant to a map that represents me. I have chosen India, as i have traveled there 3 times on my spiritual journey and India has a lot of personal meaning to me. This project will have a collage of images printed onto canvas and then have drawings and paintings added to it.

Posted by Jan Lamb at 9:06 PM

Be the Peace: update Friday 25th Feb. 2011

Another busy week at school.  Started learning Premier Pro and After Effects.  Love learning new programs.  Just read Edward De Bono 6 hats dialog about creative thinking.