Color

One of the last assignments for the film class was to create a piece that had something to do with color. I used aftereffects to pull this one off.

Quixotic

Going into the summer, I had managed to get myself an internship at one of the few local Kansas City animation studios, Bazillion Pictures. For the first part of the internship we worked on abstract projections that would be used in the annual Quixotic Fusion show held on UMKC's campus. Here are several renders I created using Adobe Aftereffects and Trapcode Particular and Form.

Birdy

Preproduction class took a small change this week in that we were assigned to create or storyboard a dynamic camera shot. I coupled my knowledge gained from the maya class and created this strange little shot.

Creatures

The next assignment in my Maya class was an After Effects project in which we had to animate a pop-up book. The goals were to gain a better understanding of the 3-d space in after effects along with cameras and other tools.

Summer experiments

Between Sophomore and Junior year I decided to toy around with some possible senior thesis ideas. They were all very loosely based concepts but I really enjoy watching these tests.

The first idea was to use extra business cards from the printing company I was working at, as a texture for a film, I also had an idea about having different people handing these cards to each other as the animation played on them.



After these few experiments I just decided to keep myself busy.





I also took on a commission to create a short web ad for a new iPhone application called 'Grocery IQ'

Winter Break 2007

Initially a few other students and I had wanted to produce a film over the break so we came up with a very simple idea, influenced by the construction of the short cannon fodder, about a girl who is collecting ingredients to make tea when she is confronted by some faeries. I was charged with researching possible glow effects that we could use on the faeries. Though this project completely exploded I still managed to get some fun animated material out of it. This is what I had to present by the end of the month and a half long winter break.

Breathe The Scene

Second semester of Freshman year was a bit different than the first semester. It was split up into three periods in which we took five week long workshops. My first was with Brett Reif in titled 'Arting the Find, Finding the Art" which was about making found object art and recontextualizing objects to create meaning. My second course was with Maria Creytes called "Polished Primitive" which was a ceramics class in which we had to polish the pots by hand before we put them in the fire to be cured. And my final class was with Trina Cooper. It was supposed to be a class on Max MSP and Jitter but it ended up being a video installation class instead. It became my first exposure to Adobe After effects. Here is a picture of the rough story board and pictures of the final setup of the installation and of coarse the video itself, please excuse the terrible quality, I had to rip it off of myspace due to some data mishaps.