Lego Man

This is my favourite animation thus far.

i loved making it.. and i think it looks good.

i wish that i could be as happy with everything else as i am with this.


I have to say i enjoyed the tediousness of adjusting the masks every frame. of course i tried to automate it but that doesn't work out quite right and adjustments are needed.
I like the whole godzilla thing. hahaha i SHOULD have added buildings exploding that would have made it epic. BUT none the less i stil thoroughly enjoy this short short animation.

Oh i got so scared when i first rendered this out. because it didn't work the masks were all off time and it didn't make any sense, giant bits of blue was showing through... STRESSFUL. but it turned out it was just a problem with my render settings. I thought that being as the original footage was set to 15.1515 fps then my render setting should be set to that too.. because that is just logical in my mind. However, adobe after effects rendered this out perfectly when i set the render settings back to 25fps. weird, strange but it worked in the end

Mad MACKs

Now lets see... I had some trouble with this one simply because it is so hideously ugly and you hate yourself for creating hugely disgusting thing. I made two versions but the first one was horrible because i attempted to just use masks to create nice interesting looking stars but they ended up just looking mangled (thanks to my wonderful drawing skills). it also had problems with timing and masking and i couldn't be bothered to go through and fix every little thing that was wrong with it so i scrapped it and started again.

I think with this i could ave gone a little more crazy as per the outline we were given... and maybe more of a running theme, like each of the sections for each appliance be kind of similar in presentation. However that might make craziness less.... so its a toss up really.

there is one little bit that annoys me so much because i didn't notice it until i rendered it out. But at the start when the "its price madness" text appears a couple of times... it starts to reappear slightly before cutting to the next product. so it only gets to about "ess" of madness before cutting. annoy me to no end.. because it looks unprofessional and bleh.

other than that i don't hate it. BUT of course I'll never be happy ith anything i do.. everything can always be better