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Sunday, August 9, 2009

KL1054 Voicemail Box

I now have an official contact number! Call me and you will automatically hear a voicemail recording, and you can leave me a message after the beep. I check my messages every so often so be sure to leave me one. If you have any questions about how I got a voicemail box (for free) contact me at kl1054@theaeblog.tk.

Voicemail Box Number:
206.333.7900

*I might make a video about my voicemail box soon.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Energy Push and the Movie "Push"?

Just recently I was browsing through Netflix's huge collection of movies and I came across the movie "Push." I watched the trailer for it and realized the concept of the VFX is a lot of like my energy push video found here.

Merely an interesting coincidence I found today that I'd thought I'd share.

Here's the trailer for the movie "Push:"

Thursday, July 16, 2009

NEW VIDEO - Energy Push

VIDEO DESCRIPTION
VFX energy push test. Primarily a practice for:
-Morphing two frames together with animated masks
-Intensive color correction
-Sound effects matching video
-Slight cinematic effect

Made in Adobe After Effects CS4. Send me an email!

How did I make this?
-Watch the VFX Breakdown here:
*link not available yet*

-Text description
1. Cut raw footage and overlayed ping pong ball blast with hand blast
2. Keyframed mask shape of ping pong blast layer
3. Added motion blur shake when balls are blasted off
4. Added two beginning footage layers as an extra element
5. Added color correction using Curves (contrasted image and brought down red channel)
6. Assembled rough composite with extra footage elements

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--Footage--


Energy Push - In Development

There's a new video in development! This is a VFX test mainly testing out intensive color correction, morphing frames together, and sound effects. I don't have any screenshots at the moment but you can take a look at the raw footage and try to guess what I'm trying to do =P

Raw Footage: (uploaded on new KL1054Extras YouTube account)

Lady GaGa - Starstruck (Audio to Keyframes Conversion)

A while back I was trying out the convert audio to keyframes feature within After Effects and I said I would post an example of what I did.

If you can see, the opacity of a white solid is changing based on the audio amplitude.


(Uploaded by ADDYDINNER)