A big hit, and rightly so. This is a video that I created from a Bandhub "collab" in which I was recruited for lead vocals, and to which I contributed other audio FX. The project (started by another member) turned out so well that I simply had to make a video presentation of it, and so here it is:
To gain a better perspective on how this video was created, take a look at the original "collab" here or here's a representation of the original video:
... and then a time-lapse video of my process in creating a similarly-styled video, but from a much smaller project:
These videos can take anywhere from 6-24 hours, depending on their size, complexity of moves, background footage, video FX, and whether or not I create an entirely new audio mix.
After Effects is a fabulous program, and I'm glad I've reintroduced myself to it. I'm still rather amateurish in my use of it, but I believe that I've progressed in different aspects with almost every video. Some I do admit are boiler plate standards that I've invented and have employed just to get a collab that I'm proud of out for people to see, and especially to hear.
I'm not a great vocalist, but I think I'm fairly decent. And it's truly an enjoyable hobby.
Since my previous post (about 5 months ago)I've done considerably more songs, and created quite a few videos. I'm at over 130 "collabs" currently, and have released nearly 40 videos of those songs.
Here's a few of them that I've liked in particular. As always please click the title, rather than the image, and you'll get a full-screen view. It's always nice to see the details up close :)
So from older to newer ...
PINK FLOYD - WAITING FOR THE WORMS (from the album and motion picture)
In this video I recreated the Gerald Scarfe animations. I did this by ingesting the original videos into After Effects and then layering my own images over it, and then frame-by-frame matching the movements and angles, and a reasonable facsimile of the imagery. I've also included a link to a YT video of that segment (on another person's account) just so you can do a comparison, here (it's set to start at the beginning of the mimicked animation:
https://youtu.be/0bDY0DfEjmo?t=1m19s
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Since virtually everything I've been working on lately is confidential, or something that my position in the production was not directly involved with either shooting and/or editing, I either am not permitted to post it, or it wouldn't be reflecting any of my personal skills. So I'll just post a little video I did for fun instead.
As always, be sure to click on the title in the upper left to open the video in a new page and from there you can click on the icon in the lower right to go full screen. Turn it up!
This is a little something special I like to do for the couples for whom I produce their wedding video -- a little animation made from their own wedding invitation, to include in their wedding day video presentation on DVD.
Two previous animations may be seen in my 2014 reel, but this is my most ambitious to date, though it's actually simple. The ambitious part came in the cutting out of virtually every asset on the invitation, and connecting an appropriate animation with it. The happy couple really enjoyed it so, mission accomplished :)
As always, it's best to watch this as large as possible.
In the true production, this is set to the song "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)" by Frank Sinatra. YouTube blocked the music and so I found a reasonably suitable musical piece from their free collection.
Rather than being the typical quick view of video clips with a bed of music, this reel also includes descriptions of what I've done in each production instance, including a fairly comprehensive outline of my wedding video service.
That's about the size of it. I drew all of the individual parts of the creature on blank index cards, using coloured pencils; scanned them; opened them up in Photoshop and trimmed them. I probably should've drawn out two different wings to give it more, but it was just for the sake of doing a little animation practice so I just duplicated the one and mirrored it for the other side. Then I animated each part, in After Effects, using the Puppet Warp Tool on the talons and tail.
The music is by Claude Debussy, and borrowed from www.museopen.org
with full permission, as all of the music there is in the public domain.
As usual, you'll get more enjoyment from this video if you click on the little FULL SCREEN icon, situated between the Vimeo logo, and HD, at bottom, right of the screen.
This is my final project for Digital Filmmaking at New England Institute of Technology. The assignment: Create either a short film of no more than 7 minutes long; or create a trailer to a hypothetical film at about 2-3 minutes in length. I had a story idea which I didn't believe would fit into 7 minutes so I went for the trailer idea.
[Please watch this in full resolution for best enjoyment. You may do so by clicking on the image above, and then holding your mouse pointer toward the upper left of the image and clicking the title. This will take you to the YouTube page, where you may also enlarge it full screen, by clicking the rectangular icon in the bottom left of the movie screen.]
My partner for this project was Dennis Cabral. Dennis drew all of the storyboards, helped with shooting and audio editing choices.
It was shot entirely with a Canon T3i, using both the kit lens 18-55mm; and a Rokinon 35mm Cinema lens. I created all (but the "Dice Out" animated logo) of the animated graphics, and edited it with Adobe CS6 Production Premium, using After Effects, and Premier. I used Audition a little, as well as Audacity.
I posted this ahead of time, but I'm assuming that we got an "A" for it (so long as we get all of the necessary paperwork completed on time). The final results shall be confirmed in a couple of weeks when I get my grade.
All music and SFX are original, or from Public Domain, or from the Valentino SFX and Music Collection (which I have access to through school).
Thanks so much to my friends and family for their acting abilities, who spent so much of their valuable time to help me with this project. Bless you.
Kelly Dwyer worked with me on this quarter final project for Corporate Media class. The assignment was to be a promotional video, for either a product (whether real or imagined), a person, service, etc. The idea of homeschooling came to me, though I was educated in publick skoole. I got such a visceral reaction from my instructor that we had a little chat about it for a bit, as I explained that virtually all of the homeschooled kids I'd ever met were very intelligent, and more personable than most of the public school kids I knew, and/or grew up with. After a while he said "You know what? I hope you make that video on homeschooling. I'm willing to be wrong. Convince me." I said "Well, I'll do my best." I don't know if I changed his mind but I got a 95 on it ;)
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Friday, September 7, 2012
After numerous searches, I finally located the copyright owner of the leaping rabbit image that I'd borrowed some time ago, for my logo. It turns out to be a tattoo company, and they did not want me to use their image in my logo, though they said "thank you for asking." So I've changed the design to a similar image, which I drew myself, basically copying the pose from their bunny, but an entirely new piece of art. I didn't ask, but hopefully they won't object to my leaving the originals so that there's some context to all of this fuss.
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Dylan Titus and I created this instructional video, for the class Corporate Media -- an instructional video, on the topic of "How to Entertain Guests in Your Home".
The cheesy green screen "glow" was done intentionally, for added comic effect, though we forgot to apply it properly to the final appearance of Mr Sock.
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An After Effects exercise. I stole the general idea, and the music from the tutorial, from which I learned how to do it, but the final sound FX are mine, and of course I did all the animation, etc. I'm only disappointed because I wasn't able to figure out how to make proper shadows cast upon the dance floor.
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Another silly exercise in After Effects. No real purpose to it, other than keeping myself busy with using it as much as possible on a regular basis. The picture of the man, the background, and the car were all swiped from other people's websites. The sound effects are from my own mouth and breath.
(This is the third, and final, time I'll upload this video. I just wasn't satisfied with a few things)
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I created an improved and revised version of the animated logo. It's no longer "Hare in the Moon Productions" but "Shawn Hare Productions" as per the name of this blog, and the title image. I made some changes to the animation. Basically I started over, though using the same materials as in the first attempt. This time though I angled the first two jumping bunnies, so that they leap toward the camera; the front (icon) bunny has been darkened; the moon glow has been intensified; and the sound effects have been slightly altered.
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Just a little After Effects exercise that I thought up and put together.
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This is not anything official for The Discovery Channel. It's the logo I chose to animate and perform the listed requirements for my Motion Graphics (After Effects) class. I had to look for a flat globe of the Earth, make it spherical, add clouds (3 layers), rotate the planet to the left; rotate the clouds at different intervals, to the right; place the (hypothetical) names in a particular sequence; show a graph; and roll some credits -- all of these at specified times, making sure not to encroach upon the rights of the logo.
