THIS IS WHAT
I DID TODAY

While you were sleeping, I had these printed.

I created this branding spot for the Academy of Art University’s School of Web Design and New Media. It was a one man affair – I wrote the script, art directed, animated, composed the music and recorded the voice over. The project took about 3 weeks in all, mostly worked on while juggling lots of other projects.

The biggest challenge when creating a spot like this, aside from the sheer amount of animation detail, is getting all the “stuff” the school does voiced and presented correctly. And to make things like EMERGING WEB STANDARDS sound interesting.

I’ve been experimenting with creating large bodies of water in Cinema 4D. This is a plane with a Displacer Deformer and a Formula Deformer to make the waves. The texture has lots of noise layers that animate slightly over time. Lots of compositing in AE, as usual, with two versions – one inky black and the other sea green.

Once again playing with C4D Spline Wrap. A bunch of cylinders acting like fancy würms. Or worms. I tacked on a wireframe to show the Spline Deformer in action.

Spline Wrap Floaties sounds like a breakfast cereal, but it’s really just a plane and a Spline Wrap deformer in C4D. Once animated, I threw it into a Mograph cloner and finished in AE. This would be a great way to do a logo reveal, no?

Sometimes I’m too lazy to bust out a video camera, food dye, and a large glass container. What we have here is an attempt to create some inky footage using only Trapcode Particular and AE. The first one is a dark blue ink. The second is a mixture of milk and blood. Mmmm. Pretty processor intensive, so I kind of stopped at one instance of Particular for each sim. As I always say, I should make a tutorial…

Some tests using Mograph to create water drops. Now I have to figure out how to animate them…

I’ve been carboloading on Dexter this month. At the end of every episode, there is a great broken glass bumper with Showtime’s logo laid over it. I thought this would be a nice project to tackle. I may start doing some tutorials, and I think this would make a good one, as most of the “look” is achieved in After Effects. My intention was to not make it exactly like the original, this is more of an inspiration.

Started playing around with C4D Standard Particles (which are pretty cool) and kept adding stuff: emitter on path, dynamics, gravity, wind, attractor, blah, blee, blahggg… Also rendered out a wireframe view for clarity.

It’s that time of the semester – Mograph. This little experiment uses cloned cubes, the step effector, and some dynamics. I also added a vibrate tag to the sphere for some random movement. All finished up in AE with particles and the obligatory camera shake.