Chalk Drawing Animation

Wow, it has been a long time since I posted anything!!

There have been many projects the I have worked on in the last few months, but none as challenging or as fun as this one.

Someone needed some still images to be drawn in chalk.  I really had no idea how to do this, but after searching all my references, I came up with something that worked well!

I though that I would post my demo that I sent to my client to see if this is what he was looking for.

Morning Has Broken Music Video

Something else that I have never tried was a music video.  I personally thought that it wouldn't be that hard.  I was wrong.  It is very difficult.  However, I learned alot from the experience and if I ever do another, I will be sure to apply what I learned!

Anyway, here is the video.  My two sisters, my brother and I were the ones that did it.  My sister Grace played the guitar, my other sister Keri, did the other instruments.  My brother Seth worked the bounce boards and I did the camera work and sound mix.

I was really amazed at how much color I could put into this video.  I think that I was able to make it look very close to morning.  By the way, the sun wasn't real....I added that too!  Since we filmed it around 8 a.m., the sun was already up in the sky too far.

Here are some before and after pictures to show how much color I was able to bring back and the fake sun:

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After:

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What are your thoughts?  Does something stick out to you as neat or wrong?

Panorama

One thing that I have never tried to do was a panorama.  So, I decided to try one:

Here are the three images that I used as well as the images joined together, without all of the color grading as so on:

I was amazed at the fact that I was able to bring back the clouds so much!!  Also, I should clarify, I used Photoshop and After Effects to make this.  After Effects was used for the color grading and the actual stitching together of the images as well as the sun.

Photoshop was just used to get rid of some of the seam problems.  I would have done everything in Photoshop, but it kept wanting to crash on me.

Anyhow, have you ever tried to do a Panorama?  If so, I would love to hear about it!

ARMY ATTACK- Sector 4

Just a little something that my brother and I put our heads together on.

The Film

Visual Effects Breakdown

Hope you enjoy!

Bloopers for Finding Something Real

Check out the bloopers for FINDING SOMETHING REAL HERE.

There were LOTS more bloopers, but these were the funniest!  All in all, there was a total of 5 GB of bloopers!!

FINDING SOMETHING REAL The Movie

In the past school semester I was a student/helper in our local homeschool CO-OP's Cinematography Class.

Here is a link to the video that we made:

www.findingsomethingrealthemovie.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

From Sun To Rain Remake

I decided to have a little fun with the picture from the last post!

From Sun To Rain

Phew!  It has been one busy 3 weeks!  I apologize that I haven't posted anything here for awhile, between finishing up a video project and school, I haven't had anytime to do anything!

Anyhow, here is something that I did today...

The Before

The After

The hardest part was getting the windows to light up.  Can anyone guess how I did it?

Lake Pictures

Yesterday, we went to the State Park by our house.  Of course I couldn't miss this opportunity to take some photos!

When I first took these pictures, they were out of balance with the white and blacks which in turn made the colors very dull and bland.  I tried somethings in Photoshop and was amazed at how much quality I could bring back!

Here is two examples.

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After

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Army Attack Visual Effects

After racking my brain to try and find something to post about...this is what I came up with:

Memories Of Banjo, Our Seeing Eye Dog

As some of you may know, our seeing eye dog in training left a couple of months ago.  Here is a little slideshow that I put together containing some of our best memories of Banjo!