Final Collide

Final Collide 2

Final compress

Final POP

For my collide video I decided to make up my own type face using these square boxes. At first I made the type in illustrator but then it took too long to import because the file was huge. So, I made the boxes up in After Effects and then copyd and pasted them enough to make up each letter. And as you can probably imagine it took a long time but it looks really cool when the letters rotate especially when I add a light onto it from an angle.

Firstly, I did this cube in illustrator and made up each letter but the file was moving so slow each time I tried to play it because it was moving a large file from illustrator into After Effects so therefore I just did it again in After effects by measuring out a square duplicating it and then marking the 3D box to move each square into place to make up this cube.

On this video I spent alot of time experimenting with differnt effects and moving things around and also useing colour. One of the things I gound out about was the 'wiggler' tool. and it is used in correlation with the camera actio. What it does is move the camera around so it appears as though someone is holding a camera and moving around slightly.
Layer>new>Null effectI kept the camera on smooth option and firstly I put a key frame from null effect and add key frame for position.
Then I go to window>wigglerChange frequency and magnitude slightly and click apply. On mine I only changed it very slightly so it doessnt move around too much.Also as for position you can change it on rotation.

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I did a tutorial for my POP video and it was very basic to show me how to use the shatter effect...It told me alot of things that I didnt know. To start with I wrote out the word 'pop' and then put a shatter effects onto it. I thin had to render it and change the shape from bricks to hexagons. I changed the 'extrusion depth' to make the pieces thicker and then I lowered the 'repetition' to make less hexagon pieces.

Force 1 is the type where you have gravity option which is very important and also gravity inclination which decides wether the pieces come towards or move away from the camera.

Then I added a glow effect to make it seem as though its on fire by going to effect>stylize>glow. Then I changed the glow threshold to>alpha channel and put glow threshold to 0%.

Compress 3D from Emma Cooper on Vimeo.

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Onthis video I worked from one of my storyboards. It took alot of experimenting and I had this cool book about the making of video games and it said when making things in After Effects, you should never have anything perfectly still after a movement. For example, when you are walking and you stop, you dont stop perfectly still you wobble a little. And so for my video when the word compress has gotten smaller, I make it slightly bigger again and then close it again. I hope this makes sense...

For this composition I used a font called 'Blackout' it was the boldest and most compact typeface I found on dafont.com.

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bubbles from Emma Cooper on Vimeo.