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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I got my final grades for the Spring Quarter of 2012. While not the 4.0 that I achieved for the Winter Quarter, it's still a nice 3.87, resulting in a cumulative GPA of 3.93.
I'm quite happy that Algebra is over and done with. The only other math (that I know of) which I'll need to complete at some point is "Business Math", whatever precisely that is.
What I intend to do in the meantime, is to use the available resources online, to exercise and further hone my skills in After Effects, and digital editing. It's really too bad that NEIT offers no advanced courses available in these two subjects -- that, along with an advanced Photoshop course; all of which would be highly valuable in setting NEIT students even further ahead of the curve, for the job marketplace.
Speaking of job marketplace, I might want to look into getting some part time work, to help supplement the very small amount I'm collection from unemployment. I'm allowed a small amount without it affecting those payments, and that's about all I'm looking for anyhow, for gas money, and lunches at school.
Thanks for your continued interest. Any financial gifts specified to my tuition are greatly appreciated, as this is not a cheap education.
On another note, I'm a bit annoyed at the reading of the information concerning the graduation commencement, for those receiving their diplomas, this coming June 8th. Firstly, it's on a Sunday morning. Are they unaware that many people attend worship on Sunday mornings? I hardly think that's possible. The commencement begins at 11:00, but the students are to be there at 9:45.
To make matters worse, there's not only (at least) one road race going on in downtown Providence (the commencement is being held at the Providence Convention Center), but there's also a circus being set up at the "Dunk". It should turn out to be a real traffic nightmare.
I'm thinking of speaking to whomever it is that plans these things, and seeing if next year's event can be held on a Saturday, elsewhere (why not Twin River Casino?), and not when there's a bloody road race (et al) going on. Is that not a more reasonable way to go about it?
This is not posted because it's a professionally done video, as it's quite obviously not. I simply shot it with my Kodak Playsport, for the explicit purpose of making a visual for assisting a poem I wrote for my final portfolio, in the course "Rap, Rock, and Poetry" (a humanities class) at NEIT. It does the job necessary for the project. Beside that, my wife likes it. So there.
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The Royal Patience of
Knick-Knacks and Curiosities
Part of my quarter final exam in the course FIELD SHOOTING/LIGHTING; exhibiting four types of lighting: 3D Modeling Lighting, Dramatic Lighting, Flat Lighting, Silhouette Lighting.
The actors are Sean Murphy, and a basket of ivy.
I chose to add a little interest to it by including the solo portion of the song "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" by Pink Floyd, but rather than simply posting it, I chose to attempt to do it Bobby McFerrin style, though this is nowhere near what such a master as Bobby can do. If I had more time to work on it, and finesse it a bit, and if I actually knew how to read music (this is simply done by memory and guessing at how it might go -- you can tell I'm way off on parts with the "organ" parts) it might be be a bit more listenable. But anyway ...
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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.
