Editing in After Effects
To edit my project together, I imported my renders into After Effects. They were TIFF sequences. I was going to use Blender to do the compositing but I ended up thinking it would be just a lot easier doing all the editing in After Effects. So I started off, for each scene, just doing some basic colour correcting and added a Glow effect for all the underwater scenes to enhance the god rays. I changed the contract a bit as well with Curves.
I had use the same music from my previs, I tried to look for another song but I never found anything I liked better than that French track! So I stuck to that song. I had tine each scene with the track so putting everything together with the music was a bit of a breeze. I had also made sound effects for the pre-vis, which included the fridge door opening and closing. I got one sound effect from epidemic sound but the rest of the music was from Uppbeat.
I also played around with vignettes so enhance the romance between the cans. To enhance that even further, I decided to have a switch in the aspect of the screen from a 16:9 aspect to a 21:9 when the cans meet and the camera starts to zoom in etc. To really emphasise the change mood and the love at first sight that the cans developed. TO make this smooth in AE, I just used a black rectangular box and animated the position to make it a smoother transition.
Poster
I used the photoshop to quickly put this poster together. I really liked this shot from the river scene so wanted to use it for the poster. I found that font on the Adobe website and then overlaid a texture I had on the text to make the text look a bit rusty.
Exhibition
At the exhibition our class decided to paint the walls in this black funky pattern on the walls and have mirrors etc. So we spend a couple days painting and setting up the exhibit. Below are some of the photos of the exhibit and myself painting.
Final Video
This is the final video all put together!
Final thoughts
There are obviously many technical challenges that I had to contend with, which slowed me down and meant that some ideas had to be sacrificed. If I knew I was going to have so many issues I’m not sure I would have taken the decision in the summer to add three extra scenes! However!!! I am still very proud of what I was able to create. The story itself I’m proud of coming up with as well. Although I would like to improve the character animation, I am really happy with the composition and models in the scene and felt like I learnt so so much about environmental modelling. I knew from the beginning it wasn’t going to be a piece with brilliant character animation. I wanted the focus to be on the environments and the modelling. I love modelling and hope to continue to learn and improve and also use different software too. I really liked the editing at the end as well. I didn’t realise how much I would like the editing together aspect.
In the next few months I wanted to re-render the scenes that had errors like the forest scene and the outside factory scene, and tweak the character animation, but I thought it was good enough for the exhibition. I want to continue to model and move onto another software like Houdini and Cinema4D to learn motion graphics and FX as one day I would love to make content for adverts.