Video Editing + Typography + Sound (Narration, Sound Effect,& etc)

This is another group assignment of making a video that introduce Batu Cave. The group members are still remain the same 5 members as the previous assignment. This time we still have a same working progress as previous project (trailer). We devided into few parts to each individual.

1.)Sound

2.)2 group members actually visit Batu Cave and shoot the video and capture photo that might be use for this project.

3.)Typography for opening and ending (include the short intro before zooming into the Batu Cave)

4.)Final editing and compose all parts together.

This project takes us one week to finish it.

Working Flow

Visit Batu Cave - Choose the material and footage that can be use from the video and photo that members capture - Edit the footage that choosen - Use effect to fade from one video to another - Apply effect and typography to make the video interesting - Record Sound (Narration - introduce Batu Cave) - Finally, compose and render into one video.

Group Assignment (Trailer)

This is a group assignment. The assignment is choose a movie and make a trailer of that movie. The movie that choosen is "KL Drift II". There are 5 members for our group. There are few parts that we devided to each member.

1.)Sound (Narration, sound effect)

2.)Choose some part from the movie (observe and analyze the important part of movie)

3.)Group's logo (design)

4.)Typography for the opening and ending

5.)Final editing and compose all part together

This trailer is edited by using Adobe AE, and Adobe Premiere.

This trailer takes us nearly 5 days to finish. I think if we stay under same roof, we might just take 2-3 days to finish this project.

Practice with my friend of put 3D models inside the scene (07-09-2010)

This is a exercise that I do with my friend during the trimester holiday. This theme is the robot attack human. We decided to design 3 robotic characters that base on animals or insects or plants. My friend is incharge of design the characters and refine all the concept of light, medium and heavy character. The insect that we choose to study and design is spider. In this practice, we are not going to animate them. We just plan to match the models into the scene.

After my friend finish design the robots, I incharge of do the modeling part. These 3 models are model by me. I use mental-ray texture to make it very shine and glow shell. This is to make the shell looks new and create the hardness of the shell.

After I done my part, I compose the part of wireframe, grey shade and texture video of these 3 models by using AE software. And this is part of my job for this practice project.

For my friend, matte painting is one of his part to incharge. After he matte painting with a theme, which is a church that being attack by the robots in a night time. The people is looks scary and try to escape from it.

After done the matte painting, my friend put the image that I rendered into the matte painting. The passes that I use is diffuse, occlusion, specular, and shadow. After he compose all images that he need, he make the color correction. And yes, it's done.

My current project - Character Model in 3D

This is thin character who is try to make deal.

This is my fat character that will be knock down by the thin character.

My current project - Animation in Maya

This is the storyboard. The story is about someone want make deal with another to exchange the food. The fat character refused and the thin character keep on discuss with him. Fat character keep on refused and thin character knock him down by using spannar. Finally, the thin character take the food away from fat character.

My Art Work - 3D Model with A Moving Camera Video Footage

This project is to learn how to tracking the video and put 3D element into the scene. Mostly I done the tracking part by using Maya Live. Of course, to make the tracking work easier, I measure the distance between one grid and another grid between it. That is for the floor. However for the wall, I use some markers on it, because the grid on the wall is not clear because of the reflection of the sunlight.

The theme for this project is "Manufactory". So the models in this project would be some machines. My factory would be a big ben factory. The machines in here are I designed by myself. Because the real factory would be more constant. Mainly in this project is to make the scene looks busy. Those very power and constant machines is not suit, so i decide to design it myself.

After design and I start model the machines. After done the machines and textured, I render difference passes to make it more believability. After render the passes I needed, I put them in After Effect CS4 to make the final effect that I want it to looks like. Why AE? Because it is a video, which mean is a series of image sequence. If do it in Photoshop, you properly need to make it one by one. After added noise and low the quality of the rendered passes, now it looks better.

And this is my final look + working progress.

My Art Work - Motion Graphic

The software that I used to make this motion graphic is After Effect CS4. Use a lot of moving camera and masking skill in this MG. Color concept in this MG is white, blue and red. White in here is to create contrast between blue and red. When talk about blue and red, most of the people will think about Coca-Cola and Pepsi. This 2 international brand use white to neutral between this 2 color. This is what I study from the life. The reason of using this 3 color because the idea in this MG is to talk about one of Japan entertain culture - Geisha. Flower , fan , umbrella is the basic for the Geisha. Some of them even use ribbon to dance. So I use a lot of flower pattern to show in this MG. Somehow the flower pattern work as the ribbon.