Finally!

After 2 long days of painstaking editing and hand numbing shortcuts, I am finally done with my short kinetic text animation. The initial size of the video was 2.39gb which is HEAVY. Turns out I forgot to use a compressor before clicking "Render". Our teacher taught me how to use compressors and amazingly the file's size went down to 2.09mb. Enough chit chat from me.. Here's the video..

Scariest Part of the Project

RENDERING. I see it everyday at school, on notepads in the PC's in the lab. At first I thought "What's the big deal with rendering?" But now that we started using After Effects, and it requires you to render the video when you make a movie, I found out that it is such a big deal. Rendering can't be done in an ordinary PC, and sometimes the application crashes. Good thing mine didnt. This post is in relation to the previous one, about the documentary for our PolSci class. Here's a Snapshot of the process..

Peace

We were instructed to make a video for our PolSci class, and I planed on making one of those kinetic text animations I see on YouTube. Since we planned our video to show our human rights, and how it is being violated, I planned on animating the texts and forming a peace symbol as it plays. First, I used Adobe Illustrator to map out the design of my peace sign, I used Illustrator so that when I import it in After Effects, it will not be pixelated because it is a vector. This is how I want the output to look like in the end..

Temporary Profile Picture

Lately, my facebook page has no profile picture, and the default profile picture is pretty annoying to see. So, I opened Adobe Photoshop, Used the text tool, grabbed an image of a stardust from the internet, created a new layer, and clipped the two layers together, the layer with the text and the layer with the stars. To clip an image, all you have to do is to press Alt then point your mouse in between the two layers you want to clip, then click. It is really easy to do and you can use this method in any way. So, here is what my boredom got me to do..

1st

This is my first post! YEEEHAAAW! XD I'd start off with posting my latest work, i used Adobe Illustrator in this project. I used the pen tool, blob brush, and fill. This is just a cartoon version of my friend, it kinda looks like her but not too much, I have to practice more. This is entitled "Smile"..