Looking through my archives. Here’s a storyboard for a title sequence, “Walking with Alice”.

A personal slate done for Dynamic Type and made in aftereffects:

Personl Slate [Click here to view video]

This was short piece was done last year in EMM class with Jason Arena. I did this video in a time span of about a week and half, back when I was just really learning motion. Its the first time I exported 3D into after effects. I made this a very abstract piece about a girl that emerges into another world through her tv screen.

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Song is by Explosions in the sky, “A song for our fathers” .

[Please click here to view video]

This is an idea from Fall quarter then never made it to the final production. My partner and I had both originally worked on this project together. The theme of our project was to show something about global warming or the environment. (A never-ending theme this year in every single class. urgh)



We both are conceptual people and wanted to do something not so literal. It was my partner’s idea of the theme “7 deadly sins”, that we should state how people are the problem not only to the world but to themselves. And I contributed by suggesting a style of using inks, relating to how everything moves in fluid motion throughout our lifetime. We both love traditional art and using self-made resources, so we had agreed. Unfortunately though, my partner had was not doing her end of the workload and I was unable to do everything myself, so then we had to shorten the project and cut a lot of graphics out. We finished the project but I am not completely satifised with the results.



Through that unfortunate chain of events though, I have learned to better manage myself and have gained more experience and knowledge to produce faster artwork. I have also learned better and more confident communication skills.






So I found my original storyboards that I did, it prob needs another round of comps but I want to go back to that project and complete it for myself. Please let me know what you think, Here’s a couple of them:

Mood/Stlye boards:

The most exciting part of it, was when I got to make my first ink footage sinking in water! I love manuel labor, so getting the camera and lights set up and buying the tank and everything. It was such a great learning experience!

Here’s a clip of one example of the many footage’s I  took.  I wish I added a couple more lights. I was able to still mask it out but it wasn’t easy.

Ink Flower Footage (please click here to view)

Its been some time since the contest last year. So many stories, so many memories, and so many good friends I met during our epic adventure to the HOW conference to display and talk about our work to the community. We became presenters for microsoft and discussed sliverlight to the design community.
If you would like to hear more about this contest please contact me. Its too much information to display here but I will be happy to talk to you about it over some coffee. Real or digital. ^_^

Our work got displayed on the Expressions Microsoft website!
(We had a lot of conversion problems, this was when sliverlight was still in beta form, so alot of my graphics seem very off.)

To view the original comps please see my previous posts.

Animatic of Transitions (please click on link to view):



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