Finally got around to uploading this.

The second year that we have had an epic lightsaber battle on Star Wars Day at Boulder High. This time there were many more people, and over twice as many lightsabers (that we did). For this video, we used Andrew Kramer's Lightsaber Plugin because it wan much quicker and looks better.

It took about a week of work, and the lightsaber count was around 220.

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This intro logo was the first real 3d animation that I have done. It is also the first model that I have created (done in Maya). The eye replacement was inspired by Andrew Kramer's Tutorial. The explosion and smoke was done in FumeFX. The reflection distortion was done with a Lens distortion in After Effects.

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This was the intro to a short film that I worked on for my Film Production class. It was inspired by the film Wanted and by a tutorial by Andrew Kramer. Music from Videocopilot Proscores, sound from my collection of 46,000 sound files (including ones ripped from left 4 dead).

Here is a brief list of effects in this scene and how they were done.

Color Correction from a daytime scene to rain (Adobe After Effects).
Curves
Brightness and Contrast
Levels
Luma Track Matte

Rain (Adobe After Effects)
Compound Blur
Lens Blur
Trapcode Particular
Fractal Noise (for Fog)
Motion Blur

Bullet (3DS Max, After Effects)
Muzzle Flash 3DS max FumeFX

Bullet
Modeled in 3DS Max
Textured in Photoshop
Rendered with VRay

Rain Drops
Simulated in RealFlow
Rendered in 3DS Max with VRay

Panorama Background
makePanorama_v1.0 after effects script by Paul Tuersley

Final Rain Sequence (After Effects)
Trapcode Particular
Displacement Map
CC Drizzle

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We are working on a Windows skin in the Iron Man style, and this is what we are shooting for.

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A quick After effects test created using trapcode particlar

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We played the game Portal and decided to try to make our own portals.

There is a bunch of masking and layers in this effect. We even have some cloning... Done in after effects.

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Created this from scratch in about 20 minutes just for fun. All done in AE.

Used 2 bevel alphas (one for basic bevel and then a green one for light cast by "modern warfare").

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This was an epic battle that took place during 3rd Period in the school Courtyard. Lightsaber effects were then added in After Effects using the mask feather and colorize method. There are approximately 115 Lightsabers that were rotoscoped over one weekend. The last part that says "See it again on YouTube" took approximately 2 hours to create. The battle was aired on PTV May 14, 2008.

*The original names (in the intro) have been changed for the YouTube version.

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Here is a project that was originally put together for my Spanish class presentation on the seasons and weather.

Inspired by a video done by Pierre M.

First scene above clouds was done entirely with trapcode particular (cloud blanket and birds)

Going through the clouds was just fractal noise layers, and the rain was Trapcode Particular

Rain on lens was the Mr. Mercury effect (inspired by a Kramer Tutorial), rain in back was particular.

Slow motion rain drops were Mr. Mercury and particular.

The freeze was fractal noise and vector blur.

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This is a video that I did a while back, but never uploaded. I used a few of Andrew Kramer's Tutorials, and created an Earth zoom that starts outside the galaxy.

Just a quick test that was never polished. No sound.

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This is part of another intro for PTV that I am currently working on. I rendered out this clip so that the program itself wouldn't be trying to animate all the particle effects and video each time I change something. This is only part of the full intro, and the rest is soon to come.

The blue background was added so that I could easily key it out when I re-import it into after Effects.

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Another intro to PTV except this time it is Thanksgiving themed instead of Halloween. Only took about 20 minutes.


The leaves were created using trapcode particular with a custom particle. Trees were photos from the internet that I keyed out from the sky and masked the rest out by hand.

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