David Frisk
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I actually worked post production on this movie and as part of my job had to go back and forth to Captive Audience (the effects house) many many times throughout the whole post process. The majority of the effects, if not all of them, were done using after effects. I couldn’t tell you exactly what they did to achieve them, but I do know that after effects was used extensively.
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“he also said: how great you are depends more on how hard to work than the tallent you are born with.”
I sure hope he’s right. I really, really love doing after effects stuff…but I sometimes feel like I’ve just never been a creative enough guy to be able to make it. Right now I’m working in film and have been lucky enough to work in the editorial department of a couple of Hollywood major motion pictures. I even got to do temp visual effects for early screening of The Exorcism of Emily Rose using After Effects because the effects house had completed everything yet. But if it’s at all possible for me, I think this video stuff is the road I want to try and take.
I’m relying on your high school teacher’s words of wisdom…so he better be right!!! 😛 just kidding.
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Thanks so much everyone for all your suggestions. I am definitely going to check out all the suggestions. Once again, The Cow never ceases to amaze me with everyone’s wisdom and willingness to help out.
Take Care,
David
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Hey Serge, thanks for your input. As of right now I have only a few things to possibly show, but I wouldn’t even know how to begin uploading it to a website or anything like that. And most of it is just “special effects” for video, more so than creative “motion graphic” stuff that I want to get better at. But I really agree with the creativity thing and part of it just needing an assignment of some sort.
But apart from creativity, I think I also just need to know what is pleasing to the eye. Kind of like they have the “rule of thirds” in photography, I kind of need something to let me know all the rules of thumb on what makes good design. I want to know what makes certain colors work in certain situations, what makes a composition nice to look at…you know, the kind of things that people would learn at maybe a graphic design school. I just need that ability without having to actually going to school. Perhaps a book that teaches these types of things.
Again, thanks for the help. It’s much appreciated.
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Hey, thanks for the response. Though I’m a little confused on what this is exactly. Are these tutorials that you just follow along with? Are they tutorials that force you to come up with your own design type of thing? Are they tutorials that give you ideas on how to put effects and things together that you probably wouldn’t have normally thought of?
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You don’t even have to select the checkerbox. The black background (or whatever color your background is set to) doesn’t actually exist. It’s just there because I assume people don’t like always looking at the checkerbox background, so you can choose to have a solid color instead. So it’s not necessary to put the checkerbox background up.
As far as exporting with an alpha, I’m not sure whether the flash format your choosing supports it. I always use Quicktime Animation, and I know there are a few others that support alpahs too. I guess an easy way to find out is to pick a codec and then see if the “rgb+alpha, millions of colors+” is available for it. If it’s not, then you can’t export an alpha with that codec (Well, you could export it separaetly, just not all inclusive in one file with the rgb information).
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It’s called both actually.
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If memory serves me correctly, I believe the max size allowed is 30,000 x 30,000. How happy AE is with that type of size though is questionable.
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Actually after effects IS backward compatible, since newer versions can open older projects. What I think you meant to say is it isn’t “Forward Compatible”, meaning an older version cannot open a project made in a newer version.
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I think the Lost logo opening is by far one of the worst I’ve seen. It’s creatively bad, and technically, like you stated, is a mess. I absolutely cannot stand that little sequence.
Sorry for the rant…that is all.