MGE Project 2 (Reflection)

For my MGE Project 2, I make use of the effects I learnt in Project 1. Most of the effect that I used in Project 2 are effects that I used before in Project 1. I am glad that I am able to apply the effects I learnt from Project 1 as it can help me to improve my skills and also make me realised that in a effect in can be used in various ways.

The main effects I used in Project 2 are:

CC Sphere

Particle

Factual Noise

For the effect Particle, I used it quite a number of time to create different effect. For example, it was used in the fire ball, burning fire and also the smoke effect. It creates 3 different type of views using the same technique. I am quite amazed by it and I am sure that this effect/technique, I will be able to use it in the future.

As the place that we filmed the video is in public, so there are some unwanted background sounds. So before, I edit the video in After Effect, I removed the background sound using iMovie which I learnt it from the Youtube tutorial: http://youtu.be/VE3C6r_CMUA.

I think our video is quite special as it is different from the rest. The reason why we didn't choose action type of video that look like some super hero as we think that it will be unreal for us to act out and also our inspirations came from a Youtube video that we saw.

MGE Project 2

Here are the screenshots of my part of the video "Save The Earth".

For the first part of the video, is about a Earth ball rotating. To create the Earth ball, I used the effect called CC Sphere. Grab a image of the universe and apply CC Sphere on it to turn it into a sphere shape. To make the sphere shape rotate as the video goes, open up the rotation under the effect of CC Sphere, change the value of rotation y and click on stopwatch then key in time*(the value you want) for the expression. I learnt this technique from this tutorial that I found in Youtube: http://youtu.be/9x85FBpZSk8

Next, scale the Earth ball as the hand action goes. Simply set keyframes of the scale and change the values. I also add the word "Sumatra" as we get near the spot that we want at the Earth ball. Just create text and set keyframe for opacity and change the values for it. I also add on a sparkle which I learnt from this Youtube tutorial: http://youtu.be/umS0EdwS0xQ 

Then, I grab a tree image from Google and remove it background using Photoshop. Scale the tree size and set their position.

The next scene will be the hand throwing fire balls down which burned the trees. For the fire balls, I used the effect of Noise & Grain->Factual Noise. I learnt this technique from this tutorial that I found in Youtube: http://youtu.be/NwNagSovTCU. Then mask the effect to create a ball shape. As for the fire burning effect, I used the effect of Particle. I learnt it from this tutorial I found in Youtube: http://youtu.be/1b-UxEdsYgo. I also added sound effect in the background. I downloaded the song from: http://youtu.be/KI5Vz49A5yc.

For the smoke effect, I learnt it from this tutorial I found in Youtube: http://youtu.be/uc-eU6FbAAo. As the tutorial video is to create smoke to come out of the train pipes so I have to figure out some setting to change to in order to create the effect I want.

Next, is just plainly change the value of the opacity of the trees to make it look as thou the fire had burned down the trees.

Then, change the position of the smoke to make it seems like the hand is sweeping away it.

This is the final part of my part of the video. Is just setting keyframe of the position of the building to create the effect of it seem to be pulling up and down by the hand action.