Jephyr's Video Chosen For MCC's "Tracers" - Video And Animation Show

Hello,

Yesterday I trekked over to the Mesa Community College campus for the first time in a while to take part in "Tracers", a video and animation show put together by MCC Digital Art instructor Chris Todd.

www.mesacc.edu/programs/digital-arts

 

Chris Todd's Awesome Poster For "Tracers"

Chris has been teaching at MCC for 6 years now and has amassed a growing number of excellent student video and animation projects...and he shared 15 to 20 or so of them during the show. 

I remembered a number of my classmate's animations from my Art 202 class with Chris...and was fascinated to see the wide variety of subjects and styles represented by all the various videos presented.

Some were humorous, others a tad dark, one was "video game" based, others wove through narratives about family or friends, some tackled social issues, while others floated in sheer whimsy...seeing the individual approaches to assignments each student had taken was very interesting and in many cases inspiring. 

Tracers was an excellent show!

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 I was honored to have been asked by Chris to include my "Transformation" animation, "Late Again", in the show.

(please see the video below)

Late Again was a "Pareidolia" assignment created for Chris's Art 202 class.

A pareidolia...is when we perceive something recognizable in a random object....like seeing faces or animals in clouds for example...or the face of someone on burnt toast 

You can read more about that project in my February 26, 2013 blog post.

Here's my video/animation "Late Again"...hope you enjoy it!




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In 2013 I was also honored to have been chosen by Chris to have this same video appear in the Student Art Show.  You can read more about that here:

http://artmusicpoliticsfaithhopeandlove.blogspot.com/2013/04/jephyrs-transformation-animation-chosen.html

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Thanks for stopping by!

Newest Video: "Pareidolia" (Transformation) Animation / Animatic

Screen Capture From The Video

Hello,

In my last post I wrote about working on the second assignment for my MCC Art 202 class...a 1 minute minimum Pareidolia* Video (transforming one object into another).

Our instructor was covering the "motion and animation" capabilities of Adobe Photoshop and After Effects CS6.

He gave some quick but intensive lectures about the use of time-lines, puppet warps, rotoscoping, and key-framing etc using the software...and showed the class a variety of different animations and videos as examples and inspiration.

I was glad I had some experience already using Adobe Flash and Autodesk Maya...this gave me a toe hold on all those concepts...and that was very helpful.

As of that last post I had created the storyboards for the project and had just begun animating it.

I was planning to use photographs for the project...but when my instructor saw my hand drawn storyboards he encouraged me to draw all the elements I'd need.

Now I'm glad I did!

I ended up putting in countless hours for the final video...and was especially driven because I only had a 30 day trial of After Effects and it was due to expire several days before the project due date.

All in all I learned a ton and hope to be able use a lot of it in future projects.

Anywho...if you have a moment please give the video a look.  The video minus credits is just around 1:30 long.





Thanks as always for stopping by! 


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*   A pareidolia...is when we perceive something recognizable in a random object....like seeing faces or animals in clouds for example...or the face of someone on burnt toast.

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Visit http://www.jephyr.com to see many more examples of Jephyr digital painting and artwork.