Week 3 Tutorial Exercises

Temporal and Spatial Montage

Jessica Cupitt (n7542399)

This week we were still cutting images out and placing them into a background, but this time we were using masks in After Effects. After masking the many images, we were to make them jump up from behind the wall while trying to convey a feeling of weight.

The result is a little iffy (and very low quality; not a lot of RAM, internet connection at home is less than fantastic), but then, most people jumping move more than a still image.

I again tried to keep the light source somewhat consistent. I also tried to scale the images of the people so they appeared to be in perspective dependant on their location within the image. I believe the task description calls it a spatial relationship, but I am used to refering to it as perspective.

I thought just having a lot of people (and one dog) jumping up and down behind a wall would be a bit dull, so I tried to move them around a bit to keep things interesting.

The masking took a long time, in the end I decided to mask most of the images with a series of short, straight lines rather than fiddling with a lot of Bezier handles. I may have applied a motion blur and used ease in and ease out on some frames to make the motion seem smoother. Although, I am a little wary of using ease out at the end of a jump, since gravity does not generally let people down easily when they are hitting the ground.

Alphabetical Attributions:

anarchosyn:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24293932@N00/2707596343/sizes/l/

anirudhkoul:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/2523651888/sizes/l/

Éole:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eole/3306193932/sizes/o/

Éole:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eole/2342256254/sizes/o/

jumpinglab:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jumpinglab/2633227714/sizes/l/

mikebaird:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2678307443/sizes/o/