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.

design competition assignment

So my initial thought was to take a few pics of my house and create a motion overlay with a ufo, alien and some other effects tossed in. What is coming out is something a bit different, yet much cooler in my opinion. What I did so far, popped a pic of my house in photoshop and did a little editing. I wanted to add depth so I added a tree and little boy that I cropped out from a pic I found online. After getting the shadows right I cut the skyline, found a pic of a fiery space looking sky and used that. Then for the motion, I took a ufo that was created in cinema 4d as well as an alien from poser 8, made the ship fly over, creating a change as it passes eventually losing the alien who surprisingly adds a nice hole in my roof as he descends. I did all motion as well as the smoke from chimney, debris and dust cloud from hole in roof with after effects. This is the first 10th of what will be the final project. Also these shots are all stills from photoshop before the ufo and alien and all other effects were added.

 this is the initial frame in the movie. Child and tree in foreground were added to original.

 this is as the ufo fly's over. I know, ufo is not in still shot. trust me though hahaha

 this is still of background after alien crashes through roof.

this is the original photo