Tv Bumper - MG

Pretty lame in my opinion. However, this was a quick bumper I did for my Motion Graphics class. The assignent was to take a logo, some provided footage, and use a bunch of presets on it to let people get use to After Effects. However, as a freelance graphic designer I refuse to use presets or anything premade, so I did my own stuff! I really did enjoy doing the little airplane portion though~

Absence

I have taken a month break from all this art stuff, mainly because I want to enjoy my time with my friends and get some new perspective/skills on art!

1. going to do some more serious drawings
2. Finally started a drawing class with real models!
3. I love gesture drawing!!!!!!!!
4. I will be having a lot more on paper sketches to show. 
5. going on a little road trip tomorrow to stock up on some supplies to work on my traditional art!

Hopefully I will be back soon! 

Sunset Drawing

This was actually pretty fun to do. Originally inspired by me going to the beach earlier today, I saw how pretty the sunset looked and just thought it would look even better if there was a silhouette of a city and then mountains behind it!

The coloring came out a lot different than what I was going for, but I still really like the ending result.













EDIT 1-5-12
This morning I realized I didn't make any adjustments in photoshop like I normally do. Thus, I messed around with some colors and levels and came up with this. I personally feel this is a lot better than the first one.

Random DNA Edit

I got really bored at like 2 AM last night and decided to do a super quick edit of something. I didn't want to use any of my anime sources so I decided to grab the entire DNA mangas 10-Newest chapter. However, it was a really big fail when I realized everything in project media was too small to even see what was going on in the page (and I am too lazy to open up every single one in the trimmer preview box) So, I decided to guess and pick random pages and make a story out of whatever I find. 15 minutes later I came up with a 30 second edit. It's just something random and for fun, probably won't finish it and it definitely isn't anything I would release. (who knows though, I actually woke up this morning kind of excited to work on it a bit more, so if I ever do decide on releasing it.. it would require me to erase all the text from every page to not distract people from the story) The story has nothing to do with the manga plot~

Adustum - AMV (Finished)

This entire winter break has been so busy! I made it my goal to finish my two AMV projects before new years. At the time I didn't really know (well mabey I did know...) that I would wait last second to work on them. Yes, the morning of new years I edited like there was no tomorrow (get it.. 2012? HA) Anyways, I only managed to finish one of them; Adustum. The other AMV (currently has no name) still has that weird song cut that I need to fix. In all honestly, I probably put in 4-5 days worth of editing in Adustum (1-2 hours of editing sessions) so it really shouldn't have taken me this long to finish; really does show my laziness. Anyways, I hope to finish my other amv within the next week so I can release both videos in HD on the AMV site.

Adustum has been super fun! Everytime I edit something I realize how much I miss it. Editing truly is like some disease that will never go away... (o.0) The actual flow of the video was a bit more upbeat than what I am use to, however I thought it was a great way for me to try some new editing styles. I recently went through a 3Oh!3 obsession, so that pretty much explains my song choice. I really need to start working on more complicated videos so I can show the process of an AMV. Adustum did take a lot of photoshop work and pan movement/ whatever you want to call it, but that is kind of hard to show an everyday viewer. However, I'll show one thing I can for now; Lip Flap! This is when you have a character babbling on about whatever and it is really distracting in an video! Thankfully there is a way to get rid of it, an editor will viciously cut out their mouths and stitch up the hole. (In all seriousness we just get rid of them talking through masking and adjusting speed)

I'll stop talking now and let you enjoy the video.

Adustum:

NoName - AMV (In Progress)

Another AMV in progress. This first stated in an Iron Chef with a friend of mine. (Iron Chef is when the source and song is chosen for us and we have a limited amount of time to complete the video) I really liked my intial edit, thus I am now attempting to complete it. The audio cut I did though... isn't so great (the song was super long so I had not choice but to cut it). All the cuts are fine except for the very last one, it kind of just builds up and dies/ sounds really awkward. Once I am able to fix this problem, completing the rest of the video shouldn't take too long (a little more fancy stuff than normal since it's action, however I consider it still a simple/clean video).

Adustum - AMV (In Progress)

So, I actually have been working on this for a while now. However, it's more like I work on it for one day and then don't touch it for the next month. In total I can probably guess I spent 4-5 days on this so far? Anyways, it is almost done. Just a quick/simple video like my last one. I really do enjoy editing though, so the times I decide to work on it I have a lot of fun! I am also really liking how this is looking so far.



I will try to do more posts on progress on my AMV's since it usually takes me a while to even complete one.