Rotoscoping!!!

In this unit I learned to animate a small video frame by frame.  This is called rotoscoping and is really fun to do.  Kind of teddious but at the end it's worth seeing your very own video animated the way you like it.  These kinds of videos are really flashy and trippy to look at.  But it's fun to try to make your brain understand every single different frame, not one is the same.  It's just like editing a hundred pictures except they don't have to look good, just flashy and something that makes you say "What the f***?" at least that's what i said the first time i saw one of these rotoscoped videos.  The trick to this is to get as creative as you want with each frame and make every single one unique.

Below is my video, enjoy! :)

Unit 3

     For this unit we worked of merging different pictures to create a whole new object or structure.  We went out to take pictures of objects around campus for the first image.  For the second image we photographed vehicles that were parked in the campus.  For the first image we were to create a building or architectural structure out of other several different objects.  This is the result for this first image.

     

The front of the building is a window rotated 90 degrees and then I just "carved" the entrance where the doors were going to be.  It is sitting on top of water with a "fused" bridge also sitting on top of the water.

 

     For the second image we were to fuse cars to make a whole new different concept.  I had two different vehicles, a mix between a Police car and a Hummer, which turned out to be a fire spitting eagle. And a mix between a Jetta and a Suburban which turned out to be a furry batmobile for a squirrel.    

Unit 2 - Self Portrait

    For this unit the main emphasis was to work with all kinds of different brushes and the liquify tool.
We were to edit two self portrait of ourselves to give us a "past" and a "future" look.  These are the results:

    This is the first one i worked on which is the "future" look.  I didn't really use any brushes on this one.  I gave myself a carbon fiber skin.  I tried to make the layer blend in and make it as real looking as possible.  The eyes were made from adding an outer glow effect to four little circles.  For this picture I tried giving it kind of a neon theme to it.  The only brushes I used in this picture are the neon lights on my shirt which were simple line brushes, I just added and outer and inner glow to give it the neon light look to it.  My shirt is a simple metal texture while my sweater is a wire texture.  The background is a simple picture i got off the internet (Yay! for google pictures)

    The second picture I worked on was the "past" portrait.  For this picture i used the liquify tool to make my face look a bit...uglier.  I made myself pretty ugly if I can say so myself.  After that all i did was add the gray hair with a fur brush and used to liquify tool on it to try to give it a wavy look to it.  For this picture my shirt is made of a crocodile skin and my sweater of a snake skin (Don't get me wrong I love animals! :) This is just to make me look from the past).  The parrot is my loyal companion in this picture.  I kinda get the feeling I accomplished a "deserted island" theme for this picture.  Also, the sky was made from simple coloring with a brush and then smudging it to make it look windy.  






    Then we worked on a Multiple Self Narrative which is a picture trying to tell a story.  These are the results:

    I made two pictures this time becuase I wasn't sure if I was going to be satisfied with just one.  I really liked the process of making these because it is really fun to try to get all the pictures align so it looks like there are actually three people in one picture.  I had alot of fun while working on this project.

    After we were done with that we were told to make a comic book page using the pictures we made for this unit as well as any other picture from the past unit.  This is what i made: 

As you can see I'm not too creative with words :) but i tried my best.  I had fun trying to come up with a style for my comic page.  Coming up with the few dialogue was also fun, I think I managed to give it a theme where my three clones are the main characters and are about to have a life or death duel (sort of).  I used my past and future self portrait as "guest" characters.  The background for the page is a "sky" i did for another picture I worked on, which was actually a line art coloring.   

Unit 1

This unit teaches the fundamentals of manipulating space on a 2D canvas to create

a sense of a realism in a picture.

First we learned to work on virtual space.  This picture above shows how space, objects, and mass can be manipulated to give the viewer a sense of realism but yet have a bizarre feel to it.  I liked the fact that we could make our pictures as odd as possible which leaves more room for imagination.

Flattened space is also something we experimented with.  This makes all space look flat as if they were stickers on a wall.  I found this to be the more challenging than exterior and interior virtual space.  But I feel pretty satisfied with the work I did on flattened space so it wasn't too bad.

Virtual Space can be altered in many more bizarre and unreal ways.  Like this picture where the ground is slowly shaping into flying ducks.  Overall I really enjoyed this unit.  I certainly picked up some new skills that can prove really useful in the future.  I look forward to what the rest of the semester has to offer.

Virtual Space - Flattened Space

Virtual Space - Exterior

Virtual Space - Interior

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