Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Graph Design: Life After Pi Movie

http://www.hollywoodendingmovie.com/life-after-pi/

We'll be watching this in Graphic Design class.

"

In February of 2013, John Hughes, founder of Rhythm & Hues Studios, regretfully announced that the company was going bankrupt. With no way to pay his hard working employees, and no other options, hundreds were laid off. Two weeks later, they won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for “Life of Pi.”

These were tragic, ironic times, and as employees, we were compelled to document it. As the bankruptcy finalized and layoffs continued, we began filming – watching helplessly as one of the most prestigious VFX companies in the world crumbled. As we all asked how this could happen, many stood up in outrage, sounding the alarm that this incident was not an isolated event, but a reflection of greater problems.

The old model of the movie business is passing away, yet modern-day Hollywood grips it ever more tightly. VFX companies and artists are treated as mere cogs in the machine, with little regard to creating a sustainable, collaborative working relationship. This will lead not only to the demise of more VFX companies, but to increasing instability industry wide.

Rhythm & Hues reached new heights in visual effects mastery with its stunning work on “Life of Pi,” yet they still fell into bankruptcy.

“Life After Pi” reveals the behind-the-scenes factors that led to this sad and unforgettable moment in the history of Hollywood."

Friday, February 21, 2014

Platforms and Jumping Link

http://www.myglife.org/usa/eaprepmlk/index.php/Platforms_%26_Jumping

Friday, February 14, 2014

People are wondering how to make an intro screen for their games.

The code below works like this. There's a movie clip called splash. Inside that movie clip, is a button with instance name of playbtn. When you click it, the intro screen disappears. You can find this code by searching the wiki for Splash Screen. You want the button to be inside the splash page movie clip because you want that button to disappear as well.

splash.playbtn.onRelease = function() {
splash._visible = false;
}

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Flash Animation: Trixi Goes to the Moving Pictures (1:06)

Trixi Goes to the Moving Pictures

from Sitji Chou 1 year ago NOT YET RATED

Our submission for Crazy Horse 2012, the 48Hr animation jam at ITFS in Stuttgart, Germany.
Five teams of two had 48 hours to create their own film between 30s and 2 minutes. Each team came from different parts of the world, and we were from Canada!

Sitji Chou & Kristen Campbell
Photoshop & Flash animation composited on After Effects and Premiere.
Sound by us! recorded on my MacBook.

http://vimeo.com/42028213

Flash Animation: A lIfestory (4:20)

http://vimeo.com/73543212

A music video for Spanish band Indoven. 'A Lifestory' is an adventure based on an ancient poem. Animated and directed by Nacho Rodríguez mistercoo.com , song composed by Abelardo Fernandez Bagüés ninyure.com , objects and backgrounds by Sara López saralopeeez.blogspot.com. It's a mix of Flash animation, stop motion and After Effects.

Animation: Demo Reel Tony Unser (1:44)

http://vimeo.com/77313753

Demo Reel-2013

from Tony Unser

Flash Anime Style (1:50)

http://vimeo.com/75571307

Anime style flash

Animation: Credit Suisse 'Bam' (:54)

http://vimeo.com/64717322

Mill+'s Carl Addy directs this explosive new Roy Lichtenstein inspired spot for Credit Suisse.

This spot for Credit Suisse directed in house by the Mill+ team references the relationship between Credit Suisse and Brookfield Asset Management told here as a boxer and his trainer.

It was The Mill's job to create a piece of Roy Lichtenstein inspired animation that showed this relationship. A tricky aspect of the job was taking this iconic style of painting and converting it into moving animation. It was important to obey the rules of traditional Lichtenstein painting, all motion needed to feel as though it could have been hand painted.

The team did this by using a combination of flash animation and after effects. The team were helped with illustration by Simon Landrein and the innovative animation transitions were led by Ivo Sousa.

Flash Animation: The Japanese Popstars Feat. Green Velvet - Let Go (3:34)

http://vimeo.com/15430463

Directed by David Wilson
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Music video to accompany The Japanese Popstars' new track 'Let Go'. Featuring techno artist Green Velvet on vocals, and follows on from their 'Destroy EP'.
Created over an intensive 20 day period in September 2010.

Produced by Serena Noorani and Tamsin Glasson at Colonel Blimp ( colonelblimp.com )

Commissioned by Nicola Brown for Virgin/EMI

Primary Illustrator - Keaton Henson

Secondary Illustrators - David Wilson and Andres Guzman

Drawn Animation - Malcolm Draper, Matt Lloyd, Ed Suckling, Toby Jackman, Elena Pomares, David Wilson, Jamie Page

Flash Animation - Michael Zauner, John Malcolm Moore, Ed Suckling, Toby Jackman, Elena Pomares, Andrew Clarke

After Effects Compositing and Effects - Andy Montague via The Mill

Colouring - Christopher Wright, Sally Hancox, Zoe Hough, Alex Simpson, Josh Stocker

Animation: Breaking the Pig (6:21)

http://vimeo.com/14608399

Film by Oleg Kuvaev based on the story "Breaking the Pig" by Etgar Keret, famous Israeli writer. Hebrew with english subtitles. Flash animation.

Flash Animation: Maculae (2:31)

http://vimeo.com/32102373

Flash Animation: DSA (:30)

http://vimeo.com/335700

A 30sec flash animated commercial Max jointly directed & animated with co-director Ewen Stenhouse
(angrynatives.com) for the D.S.A. (Downs Syndrome Association) in conjunction also with Nickleodeon.

Flash Animation: Monster Energy (:28)

http://vimeo.com/79112019

Combination of Flash animation, After Effects / Photoshop texturing with a little bit of 3D thrown in for good measure.

Credit to:
Justin Lemmon: Character and shape animation in Flash, finishing touches in After Effects.
Billy Chitkin: Scene texturing and compositing in Photoshop & After Effects, 3D rolling can in Maya.
Steve Berry: Video footage and cleanup in After Effects & Nuke.
Josh Jaques: Acting

Song Credit : "Slay It" by Cryptex