This was made using Adobe After Effects for a university assignment at Staffordshire University. My aim was to make a visual advertisement for a product which utilised a few built in features of Adobe After Effects.

The design for this animation was inspired by A Water TV Commercial

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Developed by Kyle Welsby using Adobe After Effects CS3 with Trapcode Particular Plugin.

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Music

Nelepa – Monday (The Glitch Mob Remix)

This project has been submitted as an Assignment assigned by Staffordshire University’s Faculty of Computing Technology – Graphics Technology for Film Module tutored by Daniel McCarthy.

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Imspired by a Wallpaper I had set on random from InterfaceLIFT.

I felt the need to animate, thus I whipped open Adobe After Effects and started my little creation.

Some techniques taken from Andrew Krimer’s Tutorials on Camera Techniques and Mosaic Backgrounds.

Music: Chase & Status – Streetlife from the album “More Than Alot”

Sound-score: Sourced from Video Copilot – Designer Sound Effects

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Poetry (previously known as Bad Words) is a short film showing the literal explosiveness of literature in books. This film shows in a visual manor how content within a piece of published material can gain ones attention and express (explode) the literature within.

This film was shot on a Panasonic DVpro HD Camera which my friend Yinka managed to help loan from University stores. The entire sequence was edited in Adobe After Effects CS3 using the Trapcode Particular Plugin.

Actor : Oluwa Yinka Winzenburg
Audio : edIT – Ants from his album Crying Over Pros For No Reason

An additional report was written as part of the assignment set out in the module ‘Visual Media Applications’ at Staffordshire University. Download Report (PDF 5.3MB)

This feature was inspired by works or Magnus Engsfors Suddenly

http://www.vimeo.com/1920647
When I seen the tutorial where we would make a crude Alien Space Ship orbit around the earth. The Idea came to mind, how would I make the earth spin?
I done some searching and CreativeCow and VideoCopilot had an answer.

The earth consists of two layers, 1 flat texture that is converted into a sphere, and a atmosphere texture with an alpha channel on it to lay and move on top of the earth looping.
When rotated, the earth will look like its spinning and there are clouds moving too.

The space mist is a solid layer with fractal noise added to it, the same effect that creates the starts, obviously with different settings.

As for the zoom in, Google Maps helped me, I found a location on google maps that had the best resolution images. I screen printed each increment, taking a screen print every zoom step out.

An wiggle expression was used to make the zoom shake while zooming in at high velocity.

Clouds are solid white layers with again fractal noise added to them to break the solid up a lot to make nice white fluffy clouds.

I imported each screen print (16 in total) into After Effects and aligned them up together to make them appear endless. I had to parent the layers together to keep the scales of previous aligned images in place.

The car though the town, I sourced an above image of a car and cropped it turning everything but the car transparent in Photoshop. I firstly animated the car using motion tracking, later I refined the animation using ease to ease.

This is the first edit and I intend to refine the end car animation.

This is what being in your room all day and night does to you.