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.