Death Clock Write Up

The clock of death, or is it? We each have a clock inside of us that will one day stop working. Are we killing ourselves a little more every day? Everything that we are around, digest, inhale and see is slowly killing us. The moving parts that you see in my project join together to create a machine of self-inflicting death.


Technical:
I did have a lot of difficulties that I overcame while working on this project. When I laid the drawing out with ink on paper, I measured the distance between each moving part to make sure they would all join or connect. I did have to go back into Photoshop a couple of times to add a couple of lines or adjust something.I feel like this project has greatly improved my knowledge of AfterEffects.

MYMACHINE

Artist

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assign 2

I had major problems with about everything I wanted to do with this project. I could not get parts of the background to move the way I wanted. I wish I had rendered it with sound, it helps!

Assignment1

This assignment has expanded my capabilities of using after effects by at least 10 million. We were told to use the direction of our blog and make a short motion movie from still photographs and scanned images. I decided to mostly use scanned images. I ended up making a lot of happy mistakes while fooling around with the program, trying to figure out how to work it. I am dealing with the concept of death and being somewhat worried about when i am going to go, but learning how to deal with it.
I did have quite a lot of difficulties with placing the keyframes. It took me a minute to realize the whole (choosing the space in time that you want the movement to fit in.) Once I figured that out I was pretty much good. It did take quite a while to experiment with all of the different effects, but once I figured out what a lot of them did, it was very succuessful.

The Kid Stays in the Picture

I did not get a chance to watch the documentary of how this movie was made. I did talk to a classmate about what it covered. The first semester I had at MCA I had a chance to create the same type of project, of course a lot shorter. We took still photographs and turned it into a short film. We used zoom effects, pan effects, fade effects, music, lighting effects, etc. to make the movie come to life. Having experience with this sort of thing helped me to realize how much time they must have spent making this movie. It definately takes a lot of dedication and patience.