Green screen set photos

Module 15 wrap-up

The tips and tricks to publishing a quality .mov file from Flash:

1. Change your fps to 12. This means you will have to bring the final .mov into a video editing program and speed it back up to 200%. Video editing programs, such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, are the best way to add sound as well, so I recommend deleting any audio tracks from Flash and laying them down again in the editing program.

2. Make sure you have enough frames out in Scene 1-- if you only have one frame, the .mov will only record a split second.

3. Under the export settings, enter the length of your video, instead of stopping "when last frame is reached"

4. Consider buying an affordable video screen recorder, such as Screenium, for $30.

Great job this semester everyone, I hope you are proud of everything you accomplished and learned! Stay tuned for a link to our final Girl Talk interactive music video.

Module 14 wrap-up

Your animations are off to a great start everyone, I hope you enjoy editing to music even more now that you have these trimmed clips :)

I would really love to see everyone animate the colors and motions of their spotlights if they haven't already; it's optional, of course, but i think it would look really great.

If you would like to use your estimated audio clip of Oh No, I have trimmed and named them for you here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?x7cu5jdp64jdchc

Tonight we went over importing .flv videos into a movie clip, and also advanced motion tweening with the Motion Editor.

A written tutorial on Motion Editor in CS5

A video tutorial on Motion Editor in CS4 (pretty much the same)

Module 13 wrap-up

The link to the Final Rubric can be found here



The group music video animation file can be downloaded here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vdjz7se4088l6bf

For now, leave out the video of SF while you animate, for it slows down the program and I don't want your file to crash!

I did preview it and it looks awesome with the video inside, great job so far class :)

Module 12 wrap-up

Tonight we covered keying out green screen in After Effects and exporting the footage as an FLV with transparency.

This is a refresher tutorial of how to do this:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=93

Note that there are working files to download if you would like to see them, in the upper right corner of the site.

Additionally, Tim recorded this rendering/exporting process as a reminder of how to generate FLV files with transparency:


And finally, here is a link to the .fla reminder of where you should be animating the scene on your iPhone:
http://www.mediafire.com/?c226v2wh5386soz

For Monday, please make sure everyone has the:
1. Party Bus
2. Bus driver
3. SF video

So that Welson can animate the Properties of the bus and so that we can begin animating in class Monday.

Hyper-focus on creating your app demo video in Flash this weekend, minus the video-hand component.

Module 11 wrap-up

We will be meeting in the 3rd floor lounge at 4pm this Wednesday, I
will be joining you guys in the green screen room to animate your hand
gestures for your SmartPhone app demo video.

For Thursday, please animate the first 15-seconds of your app demo video.

For your music video by Thursday:
Sarah will be supplying the Party Bus interior
Gaby will be supplying the animated Bus Driver
Welson will be supplying the Disco Ball
Tomas will be supplying the 6 minute video


Tonight everyone drew for their estimated portion of the music video song:

Intro: 10-20 seconds
1st character to enter bus: Tomas' Raincloud Robot starting roughly
0:15, with the bus driver to keep him company
2nd character to enter bus: Welson's British Monkey starting around
1:15, with the bus driver and the robot to keep company
3rd character to enter bus: Sarah's Marvin Martian starting around
2:15, with the monkey, robot, and bus driver to keep vcompany
4th character to enter bus: Gaby's Pink Bear starting around 3:15,
with all 4 characters to keep company

Start thinking about how you will pass the time! Think of it like Soul
Train, or American Bandstand.


Think about silent films, miming, and OH YEA interactivity!



The 1 minute of your animation should have drag-and-drop ability or a
modified mouse follow of some kind, so perhaps treat your 1 minute
like an interactive game, it may very well be the quickest way to pass
the time.

Module 10 wrap-up

Link to Girl Talk music video song for download

The link to our class character demonstration from tonight