… another scene from the “No Escape!” music video …
Who’s going to be in this empty waiting room? What are they waiting for? What is that big “N E” doing on the wall?
Well, you can probably figure that last one out.
It doesn’t look like much, but I must say that drawing perspective with enormous cubes is pretty tough.
This scene will be a kind of homage to the “Monolith Burger” scene from the ancient game “Space Quest III” (the “Citizen Cane” of Sci-fi Graphical Adventure Comedy Games from the 1980’s). I always loved playing that area.
Just a little movie based on some macro shots of my television set. I thought about doing this all day … shooting a macro shot of my TV that is.
The tri-colored little dots look much different when you are sitting ten feet away!
Composited in After Effects and scored in Sonar 8PE. This was all done on my Lenovo S10 … the little netbook beast is capable of doing some minimal production.
Posted on October 8, 2008 by arman. Categories: movies.
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{darn we waste a lot of time on the pause screen}
Day two of a five person expedition into the depths of Dungeon Explorer. Although it appears that Liz and I are playing this game alone, we are accompanied by three other brave souls.
Why am I even writing about this? Well … old school gaming holds a special place in my heart. Maybe like Pinochle for someone from the 50’s. Dungeon Explorer is like 20 years old.
And … well … I am working on a 13 song solo record based on conceptual interpretations of video games from the early 1980’s.
Another shot from the “No Escape!” music video. I sequenced the entire video and it looks like I have about forty unfinished shots. About half of these haven’t been started yet.
The other half contains a mixture of unfinished scenes including little bits of animation and detail work yet to be done.
Yes … that is a hillbilly wearing overalls with a triagular head.
I have been working on the timeline for the “No Escape!” music video. It has a total of 47 shots on it right now (I couldn’t fit them all into the screen cap. above). I had quite a few new scenes to drop into the timeline. It looks like I have about two thirds of the backgrounds finished. Most of the scenes have been animated, but there are some that need work.
After Effects doesn’t have the most intuitive timeline editor, so slipping and moving groups of clips can get messy. If you bump something one way or the other, you have to keep track of what else gets affected by that move. It is my application of choice for film making, so I can live with its flaws.
I hope to finish this video by the end of the year. It has been a great project to work on when I don’t feel like doing anything else. I just sit back and draw out scenes … block by block.
Just a little night sky timelapse. Shot on my Canon A640 - ISO 800 - Shutter open for 1 second - 96 frames @ 24fps.
I used an expression in After Effects to make the frame pulse to a predefined beat. It is a subtle effect that you can see clearly if you watch the power lines.
I am slowly learning more about how After Effects works behind the scenes with expressions and such. Pretty cool stuff.
Liz and I are working on the above scene for the music video for the song “No Escape!”. It may involve a multi-stage (three image) perspective shift as the blue creature advances out of the subway exit. I’ll start with the character being the size you see above, but as she walks down the path and towards the view, she may grow in size a little.
It may be tricky to pull off. I am doing this to a whole shot earlier in the film by widening the view progressively in steps four times. This requires redrawing each scene multiple times and changing the scale of the objects in the scene accordingly.
I might need to work on the subway exit itself too …
You can see the next shot in the video here, to get an idea where this subway exit is located.
