The last week or so i've been practising with after effects, i used premiere pro the week before just to see how the piece is sowing together, but i'm preferring after effects at the moment as theres a lot more i can do with my cut outs.
The cut outs themselves are working really well, some minor problems and errors, for example not conforming from dragon frame then adding a image sequence only to play back and find dragon frame has kept all the deleted images i'd taken, so it jumped around, ALWAYS REMEMBER TO CONFORM!
I'd been worrying about backgrounds for a while, until i had an idea that i wasn't sure if would work or not? i've tried some test images, and i think they look quite nice, basic my image on the letter, after the first ones i did someone gave me the idea to zoom even more into the letter for the background so i tried that later.
I'm not too sure how the puppet will look on this background also, so i was thinking of having her immersed in blackness pretty much, with a spot light on her and the bed, then when the camera moves away from her it will fade into the letter backgrounds.
In the most recent thing i've done i've put together the beginning shots and added a little fog effect and a background to see what it would turn out like
Here that is..
I need to double check i'm rendering right, or exporting etc, before doing any final pieces. i need to reopen a couple of my scenes to conform, try and somehow removed the number 2 from the bird scene in after effects and add more fog as its a bit too subtle.
My stop motion puppet of the Grandma... what can i say about that? Well, for starters some of the compositions i've been using on some of the shots work brilliantly, more than just to cover bits that are wrong, just to add more to the final output and emotion i think.
Sadly as i watch my stop motion animating with the puppet i see more and more thats wrong with it, and i know i can do a lot better!! So as of next week i shall be re shooting my puppet, hopefully with more smoother actions, i really need to take my time with each individual shot.
Green screening is going well, removing isn't a problem, the reflection on the metal isn't too bad either, which is something less to worry about!
The background i'm still unsure if its too dull? or it needs something more? an effect? border? what else could i do to push it? maybe do some more research into this, possibly add a stroke on the animation cut outs?
MORE TESTS AND EXPERIMENTS!! yey me...
On a more personal level, i'm finding this process extremely emotionally draining!! Simple because of the story behind my project and the hours being put in to create such scenes, i'm enjoying every minute of it though, its tough at times but things seems to work out really well. I keep going from it looks awful, to it looks brilliant, so i'm not sure if i'm maybe being too harsh on myself, or simply know when something isn't working.
Only 1 week till easter, oh man oh man!!
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