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Blog Assignment #1

My work is a combination of animation, video, and after effects. I filmed myself holding and dancing with my cat initially and used that as a guide for the rotoscoping. I only manually rotoscoped 3 frames and used a software called EBSynth to generate the other frames in the animation. I masked out my cat and the background in the animation so I could keep my cat live action and put whatever background I wanted in the back. Finally I used after effects to make an audio spectrum of the music I was dancing to (Frank Zappa – Montana) and layered it underneath myself dancing in the video.

A still from the short video

Here is a link to the full thing: https://youtu.be/eJ-TSmWY0SM

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Adobe Aero Project

I was definitely as a loss when thinking up of an idea for this project. The software is super fascinating and fun to use, however the ideas that I did potentially think about doing were out of my reach due to the limited started assets given by adobe. My limited design skills also restricted my use of creating custom assets to put into my scene.

The thoughts of holiday cards inspired my to create an interactive version of the common grade school valentine’s gift card. Specifically the ones that wouldn’t give an option to reject an admirer’s advances. the card I ended making in Aero ended up being a series of questions that would follow if the user selected “No” to the valentine’s request in the AR card. These would attempt to deter the user from continuing to decline the date offer, however if the user reached the end of the questions, they would not be able to proceed and would be forced to select yes to the question.

I mainly stuck with this idea because it did not require creating many assets outside of the primary aero software. I also thought it would be pretty entertaining and funny to go through the experience as a user.

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AR Poster

When I was in class and learned that this AR poster assignment was our task for the week, I was really excited for it. However, I wasn’t really sure what to make or how to utilize the poster to it’s maximum. I knew that I wanted the viewer to be somewhat subverted by what was being shown once the motion began, so I initially came up with an idea that the poster could be used like a window, where it would initially depict a still road in a window frame and then the street would come to life once the QR Code was scanned. However, I came to realize that the idea wouldn’t really be to interesting to view.

I then came up with a potential idea where the poster would begin as a drawing, and then transition to reality once the animation began. My first thought for the cartoon poster was someone running in a park, but animating a person isn’t the most visually interesting. One thing I always love in animation is when food or drinks are shown, so that’s what I ended up sticking with. A friend and I went to get some boba tea and I thought this would be a perfect moment to capture in the animated poster. I took a video of the moment and decided that would be incorporated in the work.

The video was then used as a reference for the animated portion I made because I am not very good at drawing (I also don’t have a drawing tablet so I had to use my mouse). The transition was probably the hardest part to create, I layered a green mask that wiped across over a blue color matte and keyed each of those colors out to a different layer of the video (animation and live action).

Though it didn’t turn out perfectly or as crisp as I wanted, I’m still very satisfied with the AR poster I created for a a first attempt ever.