Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
CSS-Tricks Intro Movie
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Motion Graphics intro movie created for the CSS-Tricks.com screencasts (look out for it in future episodes). Read more about this video at the posting at my new portfolio website: KrystianMORGAN.com [PL]. Music by me.
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p.s. Quicktime is better at the moment 
Tags: css tricks, intro, Motion Graphics, movie
Posted in Blog News, Motion Graphics, Video, widescreen | 5 Comments »
.blok
Monday, September 8th, 2008
This little short was contrived whilst i was teaching myself matchmoving. I think i made every mistake that was possible to make whilst creating this, but at least i have the process dialed into my brain now. The softwares i used to make it are blender(3d) and icarus(3d tracker) you can get both of these applications for free although icarus is for non-commercial work only. Basically you take your shot into icarus and you track a number of areas of your footage, find out your camera’s focal length and location in 3d space, then you take that information acquired by icarus into blender and your camera’s location relative to the objects you filmed are matched and the camera path is already set for you, so then you add your cg elements to the scene and animate them how ever you like. All that’s left then is compositing the original footage with the cg footage in After Effects.
I’m pretty happy with the way that it has turned out, i’d probably like it to be a bit longer in retrospect but more than anything i’m looking forward to using these techniques in other videos along the line (especially if i get good at blender). P.S in the final shot where it goes blurry to focused back and forth, was all accidental, the camera which was in auto focus at this point got stuck into this weird limbo where it couldn’t focus on anything so bobbed back and forth like you see in the clip, i liked what it was doing so kept it in.
Check out some of the screenshots of the softwares at work below.
Hope you liked the video!
Tags: 3d tracking, after effects, blender, blok, icarus, matchmoving, visual effects
Posted in Semanal, Video, featured, widescreen | 7 Comments »
Blurred (instrumental)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Here’s a little instrumental song i wrote, hope to record it properly soon either by myself or as a band, and add a bit more depth and layer to it. This is sort of an experiment in posting this as i can create these videos more often in-between my other video experiments, animation etc… i’m not sure what sort of response this sort of video will get here, if it’s good, then i’ll do more variations like this from time to time, plus play different genres, and if it’s not received that well then i’ll get the picture and stick to what i’ve been doing.
I will say though, i do like the colour grading of it.
Tags: blur, colour grading, gibson, guitar, instrumental, music, song
Posted in Video, widescreen | 7 Comments »
Untitled
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Short abstract video created using iStopMotion and the iSight camera on my macbook, wasn’t sure whether to post this or not but decided for because i like the audio (and plus am feeling guilty for lack of posts). Working on some cool songs and videos (lengthier) at the moment that i’m really excited about and can’t wait to post, stay tuned i’ll try to post more regularly from now on!
Tags: abstract, isight, istopmotion, short, untitled
Posted in Semanal, Video, widescreen | 7 Comments »
PLANET TERROR
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
This is the final project of my second year at GCADT/ CSCCI (Digital Video Design/ Interactive and Motion Design). I decided to do a dvd menu for ‘Planet Terror‘ because i’m a big fan of the director (Robert Rodriguez) and the ‘Grindhouse‘ revival concept, plus it’s my favourite of the two movies.
During designing this project i decided to learn how to use Blender 3D (an open source 3d modeling/ animation program) which i used for the text. I also decided to do some rotoscoping of some of the films characters, which is always good fun. Of course, the video makes more sense as on a authored interactive dvd, and i decided not to upload the special features menu at the moment.
*UPDATE*- Flash is better quality, iPod added, Quicktime plays much faster.
Tags: blender, bruce willis, dvd menu, freddy rodriguez, grindhouse, Motion Graphics, planet terror, robert rodriguez, rotoscoping, tom savini, uni project
Posted in Motion Graphics, Uni Stuff, Video, widescreen | 6 Comments »