Lucas Ridley » 5 second project http://lucasridley.com Animation and hang gliding Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:27:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Milk and Cookie! http://lucasridley.com/2009/12/20/milk-and-cookie/ http://lucasridley.com/2009/12/20/milk-and-cookie/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:10:54 +0000 Lucas http://lucasridley.com/?p=642 This was just a quick animation I put together tonight for greyscalegorilla.com. They put on these 5 second animation project/contests just so people like me can have a theme or goal to shoot for and since the time limit is 5 seconds, it’s easy enough to put something together, try something new, and start building short pieces for a showreel.

I might get my reel together this winter, or just keep procrastinating since I keep thinking I want to wait and get a little more material to put in it.

Tech stuff: I used After Effects to create this. Took a picture of an Oreo and keyed out the background. Used Video Copilot’s VC reflect for reflection on the water that I made with the Red Giant Psunami plug-in. I added some live action elements from video copilot’s Action Essential’s 2 collection as well. The most techincal part was creating mattes. Like the one that hides the splashes and cookie behind the wave, animating that wave, creating a bump map for the cookie when it comes out of the water . . . It was a good exercise doing things I haven’t tried before and that’s the point of these 5 second projects, thanks for hosting it greyscalegorilla.

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