Kobayashi Maru

Here is my Kinetic Dialog final project for my motion graphics class.  It’s the Kobayashi Maru test scene from Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan.  Text onscreen has to be synced to the dialog from the film, so the story, in theory, can be understood even without the use of sound.  The challenge was to distinguish the text from each speaker (9 speakers) and limit the use of color.

The project contains basic solids, masks, & shapes as well as several items listed below:

• Star Trek font  
• 3d camera  
• animated stroke
• expressions  
• audio wave form fx 
• number fx
• radiowave fx  
• track matte  
• bad tv fx
• keylight fx  
• auto trace  
• channel mixer fx
• time remap  
• gradient ramp  
• radial wipe fx
• graph editor  
• noise

Here's some FYI.  All the vector images were created in Afterfx using the pen tool.  The Millennium Falcon was a youtube movie of a 3D rendered ship on a green screen.  Rolling text for Kobayashi Maru is actually a Kohler order form for a toilet.  The same goes for the Klingon ship but with the insertion of the Playboy magazine logo.

Final Movie

Thumbs

Reference Images

Kuler

Script

Diver & Logo

I can't believe I'm doing this at 2:30 in the morning.

Here's my final project for Analytical Figure drawing with the Pearl Diver  I added the giant clams, swim fins, goggles, & broken harpoon.  I also added underwater caustics on the sea bed & gobo lighting on the temple wall.  The image also has a gradient & a color saturation.

I came up with a concept for the logo using Wes Wilson's psychedelic design.  This time I focused on the negative space to create an outline of the letters.  The pattern is more about coral design & less about being psychedelic.  It actually resembles a turtle shell in some aspects.

There are 3 versions of the Diver.  The 1st one is a black & white copy.  The second is a straight color version.  The 3rd one is slightly grainy with noise applied to it.

The grayscale version is very tricky.  Instead of switching the mode to grayscale, I applied a black & white adjustment layer then adjusted the levels, so I wouldn't lose the detail on the image.

Color

With Noise

Black & White

Young Murron

Here’s my final clip from Braveheart using 3D layers.  Murron, the 2 purple flowers on the left, & a green shrub on the right are cut into separate layers in Photoshop then imported into Afterfx to create the illusion of 3D space.

The hard part was recreating the background minus these 3 objects.  I used the pen tool to draw the marquee around the objects for accuracy.  Later I used the clone tool & the spot healing brush to recreate the missing parts of the background in Photoshop.

In Afterfx I used a freeze frame as a placeholder for  where I would split the footage & later insert the 3D work. 

The water color images were done using the same process.  The good news is that I didn’t have a background to clone.  I added a paint stroke footage with a blue solid, then I masked out the black background using a luma matte.

Original Film Still

Background With Objects Removed

Watercolor Version

Red Riding Lil' Hood

Here is my 1st full motion graphics story.  It’s Little Red Riding Hood with a twist.  

Here’s the process.  I got the reference images from Collective Creation.  I traced the images in Afterfx, then animated them.  I applied a Wiggle expression to Red’s movement.  Later I animated her path using a Stroke effect.  It’s the same effect for the title as well.  The blood splatter came from a photo, & I removed the white background by using a Linear Key effect.  The rest was done using basic masks, shapes, solids, & text.

Original Collective Creation Design

Storyboards

Blood Splatter from Google

Car Image from Google