Glass House Verse 1 Lyric Video Final

 

Glasshouse Verse 1 In Progress

 

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

Permafrost Pandemics

 

Video Poem

 

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.

PSA Storyboarding

 Brainstorming/spitballing

-water crisis (flint Michigan)

-coal ash dumping

-North American deforestation

-western wildfires

-global warming (permafrost pandemics)...i like the name

Permafrost Pandemics is too good of a name to pass up, so I think I am going to work along those lines. The steps should be simple enough to break down. The tricky part is going to be one of the two effects I have in mind. The first is an effect where the screen freezes over, which I also planned to learn for the end of my previous video, but may be counter-intuitive for this project. The other one, or maybe two, are the screen filling with water, which I imagine to be more straightforward, or the paramecium, which I don't even know if there is a tutorial for without plugins. 

Steps: -Greenhouse gas (smoke effect?)

Distant factory, zoom in on chimney, either smoke effect or follow trail to sky

-Glacier melt 

water drip images move down glacier image

-Rising Sea-level (water effect) flooding

(shoreline? city?) water fills the screen

-Permafrost thaw, release of carbons into atmosphere exacerbating the issue and speeding thaw as well as the revival of long dead bacteria, viruses, and prions we have no resistance or vaccines for. (possibly paramecium effect or animation)

permafrost turns transparent over thawed parafrost soil, bacteria start moving (or zoom in if using paramecium effect.

-Maybe go into pandemic results if need more time (probably not, considering last time)

Syringe filling, (reusing flood effect, just change color)

Nuclear Winter Infographic

 

There are a few obvious fixes, like I forgot to move the dead tree behind the adjustment layer and the bones are a little janky, but aside from that I am relatively pleased with how it turned out, though I would also like to add a few more sound effects and maybe music. 

Nuclear Winter Background

 For some reason my computer keeps giving me network errors today when i try and download things, so just in case it continues this, here is the unfinished version of my infographic with just the narration and background effects. 

Shockwave Demo

 

It's there, it just blends in. Followed this tutorial https://youtu.be/JYbgjCR8PMI to create a shockwave effect that I am planning to use to highlight the beginning of my infographic. 

Storyboarding

 Morbid, to say the least, but very interesting when you break it down into steps. Depending on how long the video ends up being, this storyboard can be broken up into between 5 and 7 scenes. 

Storyboarding?

 

Honestly I am a little lost as to what exactly to do for this project, but as far as concept goes, I have two ideas I am considering and collecting assets for. The first is based on a video I saw a long time ago about what actually happens during a nuclear winter. The second idea is based solely on personal research which is about what a mushroom actually is. The first might be easier to animate since I have more ideas for puppets and moving objects, while the second is going to take less research overall. 

Inkblot Interstitial Updated

 

Updated to add sound

Inkblot Interstitial

 

Fog Tutorial

 Original Link: https://youtu.be/dPX8zXMs7KQ

So my final product does not look as good as the tutorial, but I also know exactly why. There are 3 mistakes I made that I know to avoid in the future. The first problem is that the video has no "ground" in it, so the stationary fog on the bottom has nothing to sit on. Second of all, the camera moves, which makes the stationary fog obvious as an effect and the overlay less visible. Third of all, I thought I was clever in using rounded lines rather than straight lines first on the stationary fog, but that just ended up looking weird in general. These are all things I can avoid relatively easily in the future now that I know what I am doing.

Winston Churchill 'Now we are Masters of Our Fate' Speech

Re-oriented text boxes, shortened for time, and altered some fonts here and there to convey changes in tone

Winston Churchill Speech Animation 

https://youtu.be/BlkU_aqz5Jk