During the two weeks of easter, i continued to produce work for Butch Auntie aiming to get as much experience from the opportunity as possible. During the first week and a half, we continued producing work for the Funkagenda project, developing our ideas to produce as much content as possible for the set. These consisted of a bold and graphical style using surface shaders in Maya that consisted mainly of a red, black and white colour palette. Its possible that we will be coming back to this project further into the work placement, but for now i am unable to present any of the content i have produced just yet...
The Cotton Club project consisted of producing really slow animations that were projected onto a J-shaped sheet (3072x768, Shown above) based on the them of 1930's/40's New York, specifically focusing on dance, jazz and music of the time period. Despite the musical focus, i decided to work on some growing flourish patterns in After Effects, as this was an Art Nouveau style that Pete was also looking for. I've been getting more used to using After Effects now, and i was able to produce some flourish patterns in photoshop before taking them into after effects and using a video tutorial to learn how to animate them growing. This then lead the way for several design ideas i produced for Pete, the first being a duplication of the growing flourish design layered with different colours to fill up the screen. Then, after watching a videocopilot tutorial on flourish designs, i learned of the kaliedascope effect in After Effects, which produces really effective symmetrical patterns that can easily be animated and looped. These became the first preliminary tests, in which Pete gave me feedback, which mainly concerned the jittery pace of the growing animation, due to being such a slow speed. I then moved onto the concept of chandeliers being slow lowered into the frame before the flourish patterns grew around them. This was probably my most successful piece of work so far and the last version seemed to work the best both in pacing and as an overall composition. After this Pete asked me to edit together some slow stills based on the theme of the night and use steel girders to produce some abstract stills. The slow fading in of the feathered stills for the diting piece seemed to work nicely with its soft pacing, however the abstract stills i produced based on steel structures weren't quite fitting with the rest of the work, as they feel to futuristic and Sci-Fi like. After the event on Friday evening, Pete sent me two pictures and a video of my work being projected during the event, these being the chandeliers and the kaleidascope effect. It's a great feeling knowing that your work is being showcased out there to people and in such an impressive fashion. Below are some stills of the work i've produced for the Cotton Club event, and i will be uploading the videos from Vimeo soon, so keep an eye out for those...
The Cotton Cub Project
The Cotton Club project consisted of producing really slow animations that were projected onto a J-shaped sheet (3072x768, Shown above) based on the them of 1930's/40's New York, specifically focusing on dance, jazz and music of the time period. Despite the musical focus, i decided to work on some growing flourish patterns in After Effects, as this was an Art Nouveau style that Pete was also looking for. I've been getting more used to using After Effects now, and i was able to produce some flourish patterns in photoshop before taking them into after effects and using a video tutorial to learn how to animate them growing. This then lead the way for several design ideas i produced for Pete, the first being a duplication of the growing flourish design layered with different colours to fill up the screen. Then, after watching a videocopilot tutorial on flourish designs, i learned of the kaliedascope effect in After Effects, which produces really effective symmetrical patterns that can easily be animated and looped. These became the first preliminary tests, in which Pete gave me feedback, which mainly concerned the jittery pace of the growing animation, due to being such a slow speed. I then moved onto the concept of chandeliers being slow lowered into the frame before the flourish patterns grew around them. This was probably my most successful piece of work so far and the last version seemed to work the best both in pacing and as an overall composition. After this Pete asked me to edit together some slow stills based on the theme of the night and use steel girders to produce some abstract stills. The slow fading in of the feathered stills for the diting piece seemed to work nicely with its soft pacing, however the abstract stills i produced based on steel structures weren't quite fitting with the rest of the work, as they feel to futuristic and Sci-Fi like. After the event on Friday evening, Pete sent me two pictures and a video of my work being projected during the event, these being the chandeliers and the kaleidascope effect. It's a great feeling knowing that your work is being showcased out there to people and in such an impressive fashion. Below are some stills of the work i've produced for the Cotton Club event, and i will be uploading the videos from Vimeo soon, so keep an eye out for those...
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