Assignment #7

Ninja Fight with Keylight.

Ninja Fight with Keylight. from Marcy Elliott on Vimeo.

Assignment #6

My Name from Marcy Elliott on Vimeo.

I started out by creating a textbox on the stage, and typing my name. Then, I scrolled through most of the fonts until I found one that I liked. After selecting my font, I changed the size of a few of the characters, as well as the height and width of my name as a whole. Once I created the right look for my name, I keyframed its position. I then created a mask from the text, and ran an image of tiger stripes behind the mask. As the mask increases in opacity, the opacity of the original text decreases. (The same thing happens in reverse when the image fades back to the original text. Finally, using the pen tool, I created a path for the text to follow and exit the screen. Hope you like it!

Assignment #5

Small Dragon

Small Dragon from Marcy Elliott on Vimeo.

This project was particularly frustrating for me.....my first attempt at a 3D Dragon wound up looking more like a 3D pencil. So then I started over.... I decided to model each individual part of the dragon in Google SketchUp. Then I had to export each individual model into Photoshop and save it as a psd. My first problem occured here: the tail would not retain any of the colors or textures that I used in Google SketchUp. I tried to fix this problem by re-modeling the tail 3 times, and exporting it in a variety of ways, but I never actually figured out what was wrong. So I decided that the dragon looks better with a gray tail. After saving each model as a psd, I imported the files into AfterEffects. The plan was to create snakelike a path using the head of the dragon, to orient the head to the path that I created, then to parent each individual body piece to follow the head, and rotate each piece in turn. However, when I tried to parent the body piece to the head, it jumped all over the place. I decided it might just be easier to move the piece manually. That took a really long time... So i decided that my Dragon should actually just be a baby dragon this time. Hope you enjoy!