finished art project

Well I have run out of ideas on how to change the beginning of this so will just submit it as it stands.

final project progress

So I am almost complete with the project. I am not 100% happy with the beginning scene of the movie but am coming to a creative blank so it may just stay as is. I created a fictitous college named consumption university. The story behind the story is that this is a college sponsored video that is released to recruit new students. The college's sole appeal is that it encourages partying. I created a logo design for the college as well and also made an animation for the beginning of the video that represents the school. Here are a few samples of the artwork. Everything was drawn in illustrator and colored in photoshop. I used different brushes to draw but mostly the caligraphy set worked best for me.

 I also drew an old style tv. Which is here...

 Here are the main character drawings that I did..

The unmotivated kid that goes to college is based on my middle son Jacob. Here is his image

I have some other things drawn as well like pizza boxes, beer, piggy bank and of course my character which I already posted.

project proposal

Project Title:  Little Johnny Goes To College

Project Summary: A creative and humorous look at college admissions videos. 

Project Format:   The format of this project will be mp4 video with sound.

Software Applications: With this project I will use Adobe Illustrator for drawing the characters and Adobe Photoshop for colorizing and editing the drawn and photo compositions.

Project Goal: The goal of this project is to shed some light on the stressful act of choosing the right college and then applying. I became encouraged to focus on this topic not only from my experience at ESC but also because my eldest son is beginning film school in the fall. The process of his schooling is far more stressful than my own, however shedding some light and making a few smiles in these brutal times is always a plus.

Presentation: My final project will be submitted to my blog with a link provided for all to see.

  A few early drawings of characters that I did for this project.

 These represent my motivation for 2 of my characters.

Here are my drawn renditions......

completed project

 What I did with this project was using photoshop, after effects, poser and final cut pro, compiled a video telling the story of an alien that falls into the lap of an unsuspecting home (quite literally!) who takes him in as part of their extended family. I used photoshop for all photo editing, masking and manipulations ( there were tons!). I used after effects for all animation and effects. Poser was used to create the alien as well as the ships. Final cut pro was used to compile the still and motion clips and export into a final movie. I also had my boys sing a very very rough backing track in audacity and added an effect on my oldest sons voice to sound like the alien.

 The compositions that I did in Photoshop began as pics taken over the past year, either on vacation,my sons baseball game or recently around the house. I then worked in poses of the alien, using poser 8 to get the alignment as close as possible. Then I worked within the layers in photoshop, editing and using filters. In some of the images I removed backgrounds and replaced them with different ones that adjusted the overall dimension or feeling of the photo. To add the background movements, I created alpha channels and saved as png files. I then imported them into after effects and created the motion key frames.

 I have been attempting to upload the file onto my blog directly as well as through youtube for a few days now. II get 65% complete and my isp locks me. I am trying my best to compress the file so it will upload without compromising the quality too much, if I can not get this to upload in the next hour I am waving my white flag and will post still shots of every scene. I am completely frustrated with the entire satellite internet deal!

Completed

What I did with this project was using photoshop, after effects, poser and final cut pro, compiled a video telling the story of an alien that falls into the lap of an unsuspecting home (quite literally!) who takes him in as part of their extended family. I used photoshop for all photo editing, masking and manipulations ( there were tons!). I used after effects for all animation and effects. Poser was used to create the alien as well as the ships. Final cut pro was used to compile the still and motion clips and export into a final movie. I also had my boys sing a very very rough backing track in audacity and added an effect on my oldest sons voice to sound like the alien.

2 more clips

these 2 clips are from the part of the video where it shows togetherness and bonding between the alien and kids. I know I am retarded. I know. The cat was downloaded from google and I did some surgery on his arm in photoshop so that I can have it on a separate layer. With that I could rotate it in after effects creating the jerky strum effect. I also masked out the basket in after effects so the cat could rise up. The alien was again given life in poser 7, my kids are my own creation, however my son on the left was cut out, copied and placed on his own layer so that I can change the depth of field some. Oh and the singing was my two sons shown and the alien voice was my eldest son. I messed with the pitch and flange was added in audacity.

here is the kids playing xbox with the alien. As you can see, the alien changes many things when he is near. In photoshop I replaced the ceiling with a house of cards feel that I snapped with my cam. The clock was edited in photoshop as well, cutting the hands and numbers and saving everything on separate layers allowed me to change the face's color and strobe it in after effects. The fire and video game playing were also added in after effects after cutting the sections from the wood stove and tv screen out in photoshop and creating the alpha channel by saving as png.

competition video

 Here is the completed house with ufo,alien,smoke, debris etc. I am working on a much longer version but will most likely not be able to post it due to the worst internet available to man. Due to the time invested though, I will take some still frames and add them to the blog later to show some of the other scenes I worked on.