NEW VIDEO: Liquid Lava Energy Sphere

Just another experiment with Trapcode Form and Particular within After Effects.

NEW VIDEOx2: AUDIO ANIMATIONS 3+4

Third go at the audio waveform animation. This time we created spiral loops with Trapcode Form and set the particles so they vibrate in response to the frequency of the music. I also setup a camera and had that travel through the particle field in 3D space. This was a great opportunity to experiment with Trapcode Form which will surely become a more prominent plug-in for future effects.



Forth attempt at an Audio Waveform Animation. Like last time using Trapcode Form but this time a more subtle effect. Way easier animation to make.

Music in the video was recorded and performed by the talented and beautiful Emily Bjelica. You can check out her amazing music tracks here: https://www.facebook.com/ebjelica?sk=app_178091127385

My first ripper

I found this guy's video the other day. He ripped my video of my harry potter breakdown and added his own effects. I found this extremely hilarious because its terrible. I could file for copyright infringement but eh its not worth it. I guess I'm just going to have to get used to it.

My original video:



My ripper's video:

NEW VIDEO: Procedural Crumble

Just a little something that I made in my college Chemistry class lecture about 2 weeks ago. I was bored so I made this on my laptop. Thought it was decent enough for youtube so I uploaded it. Nothing too special..

New Task: Recreating Super 8 Lens Flares

One of my favorite movies just came out on DVD and BLU-Ray, Super 8. Fantastic movie I recommend it to everyone. The director JJ Abrams uses lens flares throughout the entire movie sorta as like his filmmaker signature, I'm going to go through the entire movie and remake all the lens flares within After Effects. Such lens flares are from the following sequences:

Once I go through the entire movie maybe I'll think about selling them. Nobody has done anything like this so maybe it would be towards my advantage to make lens flares and sell them to the public. I don't know yet but I do know that for the next couple of months this what I'm going to be doing.

SUPER 8 TRAILER

Feeling Ashamed/Sepiatone Addiction.

It's been about a month since I made a video for my own personal enjoyment. What am I doing? Work videos are boring me to death doing the same thing over and over again, it becomes repetitious. It also doesn't help that school has been keeping me busy either and whats worse is the fact that I'm going to college to learn about film production, I should be happy but no I'm doing stupid pre-requisites. Ughhhh... So boring.. Like a friend of mine once said, "Gen eds are bullsh*t." This is a message to all high school students. Take as many advanced placement classes that you can in high school. It may kill you but you'll be so happy in the end. I'm sorry but I'm going to complain about these classes until I'm done with them because this is driving me insane.

I mean I want to do something amazing. I want to make something so amazing video and blow half of these college students' brains out of the ballpark with my abilities. One drive that I had in high school to make videos was to impress my friends and their friends and soon hope that my videos would become known and people in high school would walk the halls and be like, "hey nice video to me." There's too many people in college, I almost never encounter the same people more than once in a week if they aren't roommates or are in one of my classes. I know I need a good environment to get my videos wide spread but there are just too many people that don't have ties to unlike high school in order to make my videos known yet.

I also want to express my fascination towards sepiatone. Sepiatone is a dark-brown-grey color. Its commonly used in photography and resembles an old photo and or film look. I'll post a small picture below on what it is in case you can't or don't understand it. I've gone through a few pictures of mine and added some sepiatone color grading on them. It's just fascinating me a lot I can't explain it. The next drama-related video I make will more than likely be all sepiatone.

Things that a Filmmaker is thankful for.

When November comes to a close we often look back at what we're thankful for when Thanksgiving comes. I'm thankful for:

1. My camera. Without my camera I wouldn't be able to record anything, I wouldn't have any motive, wouldn't have anything to edit and I wouldn't have been able to film videos for work or be able to have memories.

2. Friends and Family, honestly I would not be where I'm at if I didn't have the support that I do now. My friends and family mean everything to me and to have their support will only make me stronger both as an artist and as a person as I grow older.

3. My computer/laptop. As my Dad says, "You can only be as good as your equipment allows you to be." My computer can do anything and all the programs I need to successfully edit video run flawlessly. I can do virtually anything. Look at a previous post to look at my amazing computer specs.

4. Youtube and other influences, I'm thankful that Youtube existed. Without youtube I wouldn't have been interested in making videos and I would have never been influenced to start making videos. Mysteryguitarman, FreddieW, CorridorDigital, MikeDiva, Destorm, PatrickBolvin, Matthias Muller, Iggy35, KermitCasson aka Drew Casson, Andyax, RyanWieber, and Videocopilot. I would not be where I'm at if I was never influenced to make videos so thanks to all the above for making such amazing videos.

5. God, Thank you Lord for looking out for me in college, protecting me and guiding me into the person that I am today. Without you I would be nothing.