Month: March 2016

At the beginning of the title sequence we need to see the pill being digested and dissolving letting the nanobots out. To me, this was going to be a very difficult and tricky scene to achieve. I first did some research into throats and how do things digest and move around the body. Most of the answers I came across were linked when I did my research into the title sequence for lungs and oxygen and carbon dioxide is passed through the tiny air bags to the hemoglobin, to me, this was how the nanobots would travel around and move around fixing our protagonists body from the inside.

 

I then did further research into the throat to see what it looks like from the inside and out and found some very graphic photographs and footage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video is very graphical!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After researching inside and outside throats, I decided to give a go at building a throat to see how easy it would be and if it looked any good.

I remembered that I had the plug-in from Trapcode called Tao where you can make spherical objects within After Effects. So what I did was elongate the spherical object to become a cylinder then I played with segments inside the cylinder which gave me this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I gave it the pink/red colour to make it more like a throat but thought it needs to have depth and an almost flesh texture. In the plug-in there is a tab called textures where you can use pictures to wrap around the object so I found one off google just to see how it looked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applied the meat texture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then applied a vignette around the camera

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plugged up the whole at the bottom with a black background

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then animated the camera traveling down the throat and created a simple pill again using the plug-in ‘Tao’ and made a round object and coloured it in white just to give me a idea of what it would look like traveling down.

This is the result. Overall I am really happy it worked and that I was able to pull all this together and that it does almost look like a throat. Obviously, the pill will be different and will dissolve better and will see nanobots coming out from it.

I also think I need to sort out the black background I created just to give me a rough view of what it would be like and need to either elongate and possibly bend the throat down as it will give the impression its traveling down her body.

Also possibly adding very fine speckle could be quite effective but need to see if it works or if it will make the scene a bit too crowded.

I also posted it on LSFM Digibods page and got some feedback from my director.

 

In the title sequence I have two sections that are schematic/patent design ideas that will be used as a break away from the human body to show the audience what is inside a nanobot and give us background into nanobos.

My idea in the title sequence is to show to the audience what is inside a nanobot and how they are deconstructed and constructed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The whole schematic and patent idea, I feel, would work really well and quite cleave and fun in a way with arrows been drawn on and seeing the schematic and patent deconstruct and reconstruct to become one thing. Again, giving perception and depth to the objects as they travel in Z space.

Almost like this video but being much more obscure about each component.

I decided to put together all the scenes I have created for the title sequence to see how it looks so far and to get the feeling of the title sequence.

 

Overall, I am really pleased with how it is coming along. I still need to fix some parts and build some scene’s for it to be done but I am really happy and proud with what I have built so far!

After learning and experimenting with Red Giants plug-in Trapcode Form, I thought of how could I possibly put the plug in and what I’ve learned from experimenting with it to good use certainly after watching what I’d created. In the second cut of the film, I noticed that the film didn’t look too futuristic (mainly no visual effects) but I thought maybe a good or subtle touch of the plug-in would be to create really subtle and  nice flowing futuristic ornaments almost like a futuristic lava lamp but much more elegant.

But before I just go adding it into the film and see if it works or not I decided to test it out and see how if it works with the scene and atheistically looks nice.

This is the original footage that I would motion track and see if they look atheistically nice.

I then created two new different ornament objects just to give variety and difference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then wanted to include the original test experiment that I created which lead me to this initial idea of create these as ornaments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the video of my results.

Overall I’m not too thrilled with the results as I do feel like looks artificial and can’t see the full details of the ornaments as they move around which I do feel it makes it lose it’s elegance and futuristic nature.

However, I am not going to give up and accept that it doesn’t work. I am going to be doing more tests to capture its elegance and its motion in full. What I do think that made this test a failure is that the lighting is very orange as well, that it was filmed on top of a wooden desk and that it was shot on an iphone 6.

In my next test shoot I am going to use proper lighting and use a clear desk to see if that improves, as well I will try out different background colours i.e. white and black, with the different backdrop as well I’m hoping that this will improve the visibly of the motion graphics and that you can see it more clearer.

So quite recently I obtained the After Effects Plug made by Trapcode called ‘Form’ which from what I saw from the product video looked really interesting and wanted to learn more about it.

I started to follow and watch some tutorials and learning the interface and what each menu does and where to find a certain menus or specialist effects could do i.e. audio effect etc.

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After watching a few tutorials and learning about Form, I decided to experiment and see what I could create and just basically see what I could remember from the tutorials. After making a few tests here are the results.

Overall I’m really happy and impressed how each one has turned out as I didn’t really set out with a ideal thing to create, I just created what I thought was artistically pleasing and testing things out to see what would the results be.

After creating these, I then started to think how could I integrate Form into Immort and make some elegant motion graphical objects which occurred that these motion graphical objects could be used as either futuristic ornaments or futuristic advertising to really sell how radically different the future is.

I’ve decided that I will research into futuristic ornaments and advertising to see what I can find and do some tests.