Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Fire FX tutorial

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWjlPVDxwPo



Final Project Spitballing

 -I want to do a piece on an old short story I wrote about a painting I saw, but no clue how I would source assets to make that work. Unless I can find at least something similar to that painting again, it may not be worth it. (Maybe i don't need the painting? Would need a decent substitute.) 

    <too involved, I would end up putting way too much effort into trying to make it work>

-Another option would be a poem I wrote a long time ago, very evocative and moralistic, so would probably piss off a lot of people.

    <yeah this is probably a quick path to an F>

-Could do something easy and redundant, since my other attempts at making something original were more or less shot down by the professor, so this might be the time to just color inside the lines, instead of busting my butt over it

    -remake the Thomas poem, easy and mostly done anyway

    -Lyric video for a song (a little less easy, but still simple, could take pointers from brother)

-Visualize the short story I premiered recently? (21 minute long story, so would be A LOT of work)

    <no, this was made for just audio>

-Concept art showcase for mock video game? Might be a nice comparison to past work. 

    <old audio is pretty cringy, maybe not>

-Maybe concept trailer for the ACTUAL game i made. That doesn't sound too hard, can even take script right out of the code. 

-Trailer video for second novel? (Maybe one of the ones haven't started yet) Would have to write a script, sourcing would be a pain, but could be useful (or make things worse.)

    <do I really want to let him condescend something so important?>

-If I find some motivation, could also do a nightmare visualization, prof would hate it but whatever, at least I would enjoy the process and wouldn't have to explain myself since dreams don't make sense anyway

    <nah>

-Could also scrapbook the map artwork I've made over the years. Wouldn't be much to really animate though. 

    <wouldn't be enough to work with>

-Synesthesia? Might be interesting. Since I don't have to write a script, could play with my video editing skills as well as aftereffects. Focus on the visual art. I do like the abstract stuff. 

    <too personal, plus prof kinda hates it when I try to incorporate my videography>

So that just leaves the easy stuff, or the original game


Monday, March 21, 2022

Rising Water Tutorial/ Progress


 https://youtu.be/4sTdqrrtbU4 

The animation is just about finished, need to add a voiceover and time things out, but aside from that the only thing missing is the paramecium bit.

Glass House Verse 1 Lyric Video Final