Have the newest year ever!
And let’s leave last year far behind.
VFX Reel: Bigfoot je t'aime
VFX highlights from the 2023 feature film BIGFOOT JE T'AIME
Director: Marcus Nash
Cinematographer: Matthias Schubert
Visual Effects: Rob Schultz
This production featured over 80 visual effects shots including screen replacements, muzzle flashes, signs and branding inserts, wardrobe and reflection cleanup, set extensions, puppets blinking, smoke, sparks, & energy effects, camcorder HUDs, a 'force ghost' sequence, and creepy eye stuff. Pretty fun!
"ALIVE"
I helped director Dale C.W. make a music video for the song “ALIVE” for the musical act Whatever Whatever. Our second collaboration after GREEN EYES.
There are some well-known tricks for producing this kind of text effect on the quick in After Effects, but this stuff is all hand-drawn in Procreate.
Not Art #28: Haiku I'm Thinking of Finishing One Day
I’ve got a bunch of Haiku started, but I just can’t seem to finish anything. Nonetheless, I’ve decided to publish!
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After Effects Sketches from June 2023
I help strangers on the internet to make things in After Effects. Here are some quick sketches and experiments I’ve made along the way.
Two quick and general purpose tips:
1) There’s no shame in using multiple layers when you need them, and often no real benefit to breaking your back in order to minimize the amount of layers in a project.
2) You don’t have to make stuff you can’t see. Part of that is that you don’t need to rig up things that don’t move during the shot. The lines-and-nodes shot was very quick to make because no part of it responds dynamically to anything. There’s no reason why it should, unless that’s what your experiment is about.
