Animations
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Hi everyone!
Have you all recovered from my Fifty Shades 3D visuals? They are definitely one of a kind, right?
You probably all know by now that I like to do animations as a way of promoting my 3D visual work but I took a bit of time out recently to try and master the Parallax effect. Have any of you heard of this? It's basically where you take a 2D image, cut the foreground from the background, import into a video editing program and zoom & pan them separately. When the animation is played it has a 3D effect.
I have an old version of After Effects and tried the above on a 3D visual. It's a very subtle effect but I think it's pretty awesome.
Check it out:
[flash=648,480:1ugp4p2n]http://youtube.com/v/5vdKX7XqSR0[/flash:1ugp4p2n]
And this is another animation but much more fun!
[flash=648,480:1ugp4p2n]http://youtube.com/v/CuRN4W2E1cM[/flash:1ugp4p2n]
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These are both great. Whats your workflow for the second on and how do they go down with the clients?
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i don't know how fast maxwell is with the new versions, but from my maxwell past i learned that maxwell and animations are not really friends when you don't have access to a renderfarm
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@nickchun said:
These are both great. Whats your workflow for the second on and how do they go down with the clients?
Thanks! To be honest, these animations can take quite a while to produce! If I didn't enjoy the creative process so much I would never create them! These aren't provided as part of my 3D Visualisation services. They are merely marketing tools to help promote my work and to (hopefully) inspire potential clients to consider the use of 3D Visualisation when pitching to their clients.
The second one involved importing a rendered scene into Photoshop and making it look like a sketch. Then I had to erase all of it in sections so that it appeared to gradually appear in the intro of the animation. This alone was 128 frames! Then (again using Photoshop), I created a watercolour of the rendered scene and masked it with the final sketch. Masking allows you to place one image on top of the other and pull through the bottom image. Does that make sense?! So then using various Photoshop brushes, I 'pulled' the watercolour image through on top of the sketch in segments. This was 46 frames. I had to add a few frames to show the paint dripping.
Once the final watercolour transitioned into the photo-realistic image I wanted to split the screen so that the alternate design was exposed. I had to create the split screen (in frames) in Photoshop.
I did the same (split screen into 3) when the wall of storage appeared and then revealed the alternate design.
The scrolling of the entire images (this happened twice) is a function available in Windows Movie Maker.
Hope this wasn't too long-winded!
Anita
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@carloh said:
i don't know how fast maxwell is with the new versions, but from my maxwell past i learned that maxwell and animations are not really friends when you don't have access to a renderfarm
Hi, I didn't use Maxwell to create any of these animations! Yes, I used Maxwell to create the rendered scenes but I used Windows Movie Maker and Photoshop to create these.
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Thanks for that explaination, no it wasn't long winded but just enough to give me the idea. I want to start using more techniques for presentation and for our web site and I think what you have done is worth a try when I've got a bit of time....or maybe I should make time.
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@nickchun said:
Thanks for that explaination, no it wasn't long winded but just enough to give me the idea. I want to start using more techniques for presentation and for our web site and I think what you have done is worth a try when I've got a bit of time....or maybe I should make time.
You're welcome, I'm glad I've given you some food for thought. Although, THIS one is my all-time favourite
[flash=648,480:2oe1m971]http://youtube.com/v/gQI5ODpUvyo[/flash:2oe1m971]
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Well done!
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