Tag Archives: After Effects
Music to repair cars by
Ben Woody rocks. As a summer intern for Trickster Pictures, Ben rotoscoped for DOG with zen-like concentration and produced a slew of personal bliss projects for YouTube. Towards the end of July, he proposed making a time lapse of his … Continue reading
Roto ramping up
April 2, 2012 I’ve identified the Essential tasks and have assembled a core roto team – this week is the shakedown cruise. I’ve got two interns and two contractors and am interested to see how much progress we make this … Continue reading
Climate Change and digressions
Premise Climbing high above a menacing mega-weather system, the VIP passengers aboard the Execu-jet attempt an escape to gentler climes, anticipating warm backrubs and frosty cocktails. Hubris! Even the mighty kerosene sucking turbo engines cannot forever loft such a heavy … Continue reading
Dream team
The primary lesson I learned making Daughter of God or DOG is this – finishing a movie by yourself takes forever. To complete DOG and support ALM this year, I’ve assembled a team of two knob spinning freelancers and five … Continue reading
Xroll
What does memory look like? What do thoughts look like? What is the magic ingredient that makes reality real? I dunno. Let’s make some language. We’ve already got B roll, an antiquated term for supplementary footage used to cover audio … Continue reading
Revised completion estimate and the release of the Book of DOG
Brooklyn, New York Today is the day of reckoning, where I reckon just how much trouble I am really in. 2008 is coming to an end and Dan Kelly is committed to fully engage all control surfaces until the mission … Continue reading
Are we there yet? Roto upgrade, tracking, abandoned highway and the Obamas
Brooklyn, New York Hey there! Three weeks just flew by, phew. Since we last communed, I spent a week trying to accelerate my rotoscoping execution with the help of Pete O’Connell. His method is to track the elements and then … Continue reading
Bricks, a cruise ship and the San Juan River in Utah
Brooklyn, New York It’s been a little over a month since my last update. After returning from Wyoming and setting up at the Artist house on Crystal Lake, I cranked out a solid week of roto work, focusing on – … Continue reading
Climbing into the forest fire after the cowboy wedding in Wyoming
Beulah, Michigan It’s been about a month since I last touched After Effects. The week following the 8/15 update went into packing and making the Brooklyn apartment fit for sub letters. I then drove 15 hours to northern Michigan, dropped … Continue reading
297 hours on the motion graphic to do list
Brooklyn, New York Hello friends, Mid August and time for an inventory of the motion graphics tasks, though with surprises around every corner there’s really no way to compile a comprehensive list. At least I can document what’s obvious, estimate … Continue reading
Goodbye Final Cut Pro and hello After Effects, tuning new gear for color accuracy
Brooklyn, New York I’ve started translating DOG from FCP to AE. I’ve found a free script to do this, which saved me from having to spend $500 bucks on Automatic Duck. Much as I would like to own AD, I’ll … Continue reading
Color correction and a frothy soup
Brooklyn, New York It’s actually 7/23 today, but I want to make a entry for 7/22, so here it is. I got up and jumped into re-calibrating the Matrox MXO so I could count on the color. As a bonus, … Continue reading
The rotoscoping adventure begins, what is rotoscoping anyway?
Brooklyn, New York Ok so this week I’m diving into rotoscoping. That means isolating moving things from the background so that they can be independently manipulated. It’s the red hallway effort, that is changing the lights in the hall between … Continue reading