Jephyr's Transformation Animation Chosen For The 2013 MCC Student Art Show

Jephyr's Transformation Animation Looks Over The 2013 Mesa Community College Student Art Show

Hi...thanks for stopping by!

I've had a bit more good news recently.

In my last entry here on April 18, 2013 I shared that my "Identity" project for my MCC Art 202 class had been selected for a 2013 Maricopa Community College - Chancellor "Artists Of Promise" Award.

Now I'm happy to share that my Transformation Animation from that same class was selected by the instructor for the 2013 Mesa Community College Student Art Show.

This is my seventh work chosen for the show over the years.  (See my website Honors and Awards Page to learn more)

There are many talented students in the Fine Art and Digital Art programs so it is always an honor to have something you create for a class picked for the show.

If you'd like to read more about what this project was all about, my blog post for February 26, 2013 described the assignment and I posted storyboards made for it.

Here's the final video which was  looped with other student videos and projected at the show.  (as seen in the image above)







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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.