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The
Story
So Far...
The people were in search of a good hair day. The evil villain known as Dr. Photobaumb was threatening to insert chaos into the picture. Who would come to the rescue? This sounds like a job for this photographer. Send the signal so they can come!
"On The Scene Photography?"
Don't forget to smile.
This video is among the first steps on a personal project I am working on . The topic is ghosts. But the backstory of a culture is in the mix. It's a local legend and this animation is part of that background that helps understand why something was the way it was. And this animation is a composite of Blender 3D, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects. This is the raw unedited export from After Effects. As I work on this more elements will be animated but it's a good demo of what I can do. I began the day learning Blender and by day's end had a sailing ship.
The telescope video seen to the left was blended with the colored pencil illustration you see above. It was scanned and corrected for blemishes in Photoshop. Tools were used to add elements and fill areas with color to expand my dark blue reef. The white background was removed as well. Then it was blended with the 3D ocean created in Blender 3D. The layer was stretched and squashed in Adobe Illustrator. All elements were combined in After Effects and a blur filter was added for a dirty old glass telescope feel with an ocean gray blueish haze for simulating distance.
Examples like this cross the line between Graphic
Design and Video Production, Post Production. What
this demonstrates though is a photographic concept
of framing. Even drawn animation follows the rule of
3rd's and other photographic concepts of what a great picture appears like. And these concepts while seemingly relative to the beholder, go back to the classical painters and who drew sketches, armatures and framed images with a brush they saw in real life, that we do today with a camera. And it's still cinematography. This boat framing adheres to camera lead room, leaving space in front of it as it appears to move forward.