TAPE: THE SEQUEL

To improve on the tape commercial, we attacked the project with new life! After an epic struggle to obtain the footage of our classmate from a past project, we began work. Maurice's volcano camera path was changed to give it a more cinematic motion. That is perhaps one of the most noticeable changes in the project. Maurice also created a tape man title sequence at the beginning, where tape zooms onto and off of the screen. We fleshed out the story more, and made a few improvements. I imported Jamada's helmet from a previous project to my demons file. We decided to use that for a head instead of using a still image. After I adjusted the transparency on parts of the facemask, I added elongated spheres. I added a material that was then colored yellow, and under "special effects," I turned up the glow. I placed those spheres inside the head. I added horns on the top of the helmet. I kept the bottom of the facemask solid but the top with the eyes transparent to give it a more supernatural feel. Jamada added a BUNCH of new things, such as destroyed, headless demons,a blood spattered wall, and a beacon for tape man in the sky. He duplicated the footage of the running classmate, to make it appear that they are running from something. He made the footage cast shadows and the wall that they ran past accept shadows and added a light. Jamada put everything together at the end.

Maurice: I learn how to work with the camera Maya much better then i did be fore i had a hard time with the camera moving it around the volcano i had a lil help with the camera and how to move the key frames and move them to make it longer in time.

Jamada:
* I have learned to situate where your working and not let anyone touch your stash
* Organize to the teeth not just with in the file
* Never Say Never! (Tee Hee)

Commercial project time! II

Surprise! I was recruited to a SECOND project. In this project there was a magic pen. There were two people in this group, Corina and Nuru, and Nuru is kind of NU (hahaha get it?) to the class and the software, so it was going a bit slow or something. Whatever the reason was, I was asked to help with their project and animate a pen that writes without someone moving it. There is a layout in photoshop similar to After Effects, where there is a timeline, and layers can be sequenced to create frame animation. I turned off the visibility of every layer, so that everything would move faster, and I clicked "Make frames from layers" and photoshop automatically sequenced each one into a frame animation, where each layer was a different frame. There were a LOT of layers, so it took a long time. I then animated the pen, which was an OBJ file that allowed it to be manipulated in photoshop like a 3D object, so that the erased bits reappeared as the pen moved over that section of the poem.

Commercial project time!

This project was to create a commercial for a product. I missed about a weeks worth of this project due to dental problems, but once I got back, I was placed in a group with Jamada and Maurice. I was told that we were making a commercial for some sort of super tape. Jamada prepared a shot list for our green screen integration, while Maurice did something like creating a volcano. This project was extremely frustrating for me because what I was told to do changed right as I would begin work. First, I was told to create a bat and I was almost done with the wing, but then I was told to make a demon. Then when I was starting that, it was changed again to me making a montage of tape photoshopped into historic pictures. I eventually decided not to do that and just create the monster from scratch using the "sculpt geometry tool." I would make polygons and increase the number of divisions, so that when the figure was sculpted it wouldn't be blocky. After I made the entire character, I rigged it with a skeleton and animated it. I got the rendered sequence of images to Jamada and he placed the face of THE SITUATION on it. I also created 3D tape, which was just a matter of making a couple of simple shapes and creating textures in photoshop