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These are some images and animations I designed which were from various video and computer graphics projects. (By the way, the cameras pictured in the banner above are three that I had for one reason or another and ended up Ebaying away).
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Later Projects (1998-)
Ainz Xchange Intro
The intro for The Ainz Xchange on Pacific Lutheran University's student television station, KCNS6, was my first opportunity for using a Miro DC30 Plus video capture and output board for designing 3-D computer animation and displaying it on top of full-motion video. At that time, Jacob Nelson, KCNS6's technical director, and Nathan Berg, KCNS6's audio engineer filmed the live video for the intro. I put together the flying title seen above.
KCNS6 Intro Graphics
I made two other computer animations for the student TV station. The TV screen, on the left, was designed to be a station identification symbol. The sequence starts with a full-screen view of a very rapid walk through the PLU campus. (Students looked at me kind of weird when I was walking through campus constantly looking through the viewfinder of my video camera.) The picture of the walk slowly drifts back to reveal the edges of a television screen... in a moment, the entire TV is seen, moving back from the viewer to the point that is shown in the image above. On the right is a frame from the KCNS6 news intro. This intro starts with large words saying "NEWS", "SPORTS", and "WEATHER" scrolling in different directions across the screen. As this is happening, the slowly spinning globe moves in from the left side of the screen and the "KCNS6 News at Nine" words circle from the back of the of the globe to the resting position shown in the image.
Attack of the Crumulons Revisited
One fun rotoscoping experiment involved digging up the old zero-budget science fiction project (see "Earlier Video Projects") and adding explosive-looking laser beams and lightening bolts where nothing existed before. This sequence, where Tom fires at a droid with one of those plastic gun toys, was captured from tape with the Miro board, loaded into Corel Photo-Paint 6, and edited frame by frame.
MESA 1998 Video
The largest video project during my senior year at PLU was the 1997-1998 Tacoma/Pierce County MESA video. Nope Sounthala and I started planning the video one year before its deadline. We started with the idea of creating scenes which would take place in a virtual world. I filmed the four students against a blue fabric background directly onto hard disk using the Miro board. Based upon storyboard drawings, I directed the locations and directions of the four so that they would look "right" in a computer graphics world. A month later, Nope, Drew Pierce, and I worked on modeling the graphics. I assembled and rendered wireframes from angles that worked with the blue screen clips and composited everything just in time for showing the finished video at the 1998 MESA awards celebration.
These images show the initial and final stages of the bridge scene. The landscape and artifacts were designed in Truespace 2. The texture map for the landscape was assembled in Corel PhotoPaint 6. I rendered two separate images of the bridge-- one for the background, and one for the sections of the bridge and ramp which would be in the foreground (in front of the students). I composited the layers using Adobe Premiere 4.2. (Adobe AfterEffects would have been nice to use at the time.)
Life is Not a Game
Nope and I worked on our entry for the DEP "It's Cool to be In Control" video contest in Summer, 1998. Drew Pierce provided live action and one of the voices for the video. The theme of the contest was to design a video focused on drunk driving awareness. The video, titled "Life is Not a Game," portrays a game board with a car-like game piece gradually losing control.
Columbia Basin Video Festival Intro
The trailer for Battelle Video Club's Columbia Basin Video Festival 2000 involved shooting live action and then animating a giant videotape for that special "Independence Day" effect, with extra flashy effects at the end. See the whole thing: CBVF 2000 Trailer (2.6MB MPEG).
The 2001 Trailer (8.1MB MPEG) shows a higher-quality rendition.
Other Projects
Obnox/OS (2001) and Office of the Future (2002) have their own pages. Also the hand-drawn animation Customs at PQ Int'l (2004).
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