Final

This is my final assignment for the course

I compiled a few different things I've been working on throughout the semester to create a pseudo-trailer for my upcoming grad film, Odium (working title), which I am about halfway through developing.

What I am aiming for here is essentially to give the sense of what my film is about, introducing my farmer and the tornado.

Software used:

Photoshop
Flash
After Effects
Premiere
Maya
TV Paint
DragonFrame



Newest Scenes

Storm
I re-did the scene from my 'Character Study 2' video, taking the character out and tweaking a few other things.  I used this shot in the Directed Study to describe the storm exclusively.

Walking
In removing the storm aspect from my 'Character Study 2', I was able to recreate the environment that my character was walking through.  Now it has a much calmer tone to it, essential in creating the lead-up to the tornado shot.

Tornado
I spent the weekend (and then some) creating a tornado shot.  Using the reference of a photograph by Camille Seaman along with endless youtube videos of tornados, I animated one of my own using Flash.

Then I brought that into after effects and composited it with some footage I was using for my Deeper Focus work to get a sense of the texture of the tornado.

Maya Clouds

I spent some time experimenting with Maya's fluid containers to create clouds for my sky.

Here are some of the original rendered out images:

Looks pretty and all.
I thought they would be ready to go from here but they had to move too, and that's where things got difficult.

Here's a sample of the full render played out.
It doesn't feel like the clouds seem natural enough - especially since they already look so hyper real.

I composited this in after effects and tried giving it different looks. Here's a few of them:

And here's the last one that I decided to go with for my directed study.  It's much darker, but it blends in well with the other scenes I will be putting together in my final: