Exploration 5

With this exploration, we developed knowledge on camera movements with After Effects. We were to select a high resolution image, cut it up with photoshop in order to fake a 3D believable space with the use of a simple camera movement.

With a previous blog entry, I posted several images I wanted to use for this animation with the help of shorpy.com's high resolution historic images. I chose the one with the girls looking at a roller coaster because I felt as if it told a clear enough story and illustrated enough depth for me to work with.

The easiest aspect of this exploration was cutting up the image with the use of photoshop. I feel as if I already have such a clear understanding of how to use photoshop that I knew exactly what I wanted to do to fake a 3D environment with this image.

The hardest part of this exploration was actually moving the camera. However, once I realized the smaller or the simpler the movement of the camera, the better everything looked. I even had fun trying to play around with focusing and aperture.

One thing I absolutely took away from this project was setting up my 3D space; knowing how much distance to put between layers and how important that distance is.


Version One

Critique: Pull back on the use of aperture
make the tree less noticeable as it moves to the left
play around with the movement of the roller coaster so it isn't so slow-motion but more real-time
pay close attention to the edges around layers to make sure there is no fringing
add music.




Version Two

Critique: Fix the roller coaster.






Version Three