“Shake Test”

And this is my previous showreel using After Effects, “Showreel 2009″

The Band – Dream Big

VFX Breakdowns, Compositing, Rotoscoping, Color Grading, Motion Graphics, Animation, Broadcast Design

Here’s the original poster and then some…

This week I try out some compositing techniques. There’s a lot you can do to boost the atmosphere of a scene by compositing. I think the best compositing is achieved when you don’t really notice it – compositing used as ambience.

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Used a bunch of matte techniques to get the “God Ray’s” to shine through the windows. Rotoscoping the windows and a few blurs for the sun shining through them. And of course color correction to tighten up the overall scene.

Check out the video with a before and after.

In the event that you don’t have a green room rigged with cameras all around, the way you do this is to shoot your video locked-off. Take panoramic photos of your surroundings and put them together in a 3D field. It’s important not to paste your photos together in photoshop, but to position them in 3D. This way you get the natural movement of a swiveling camera.

Then, you model your bullet in your 3D program and animate the movement and camera.

Create your particle effects for smoke, sparks, muzzle flashes. Then do some color correction and you’re done!

Here’s the final effect:

There are two versions, one with thumbnails and one with text categories.

Cassie – Me & U (Davadrian Remix)

Sammie – You Should Be My Girl (Davadrian Remix)

One Chance – Look At Her (Davadrian Remix)

There are some more scattered around this blog such as my remixes of Bobby Valentino and Omarion, and my acoustic interpretation of Ne-Yo. Also, the flash game I made called KeyRider has even more remixes!

Edit: Just noticed the Keyrider mediafire link is down, will update later.