Close Encounters of the Cruddy Kind

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I've wasted the better part of several evenings to scan and reassemble this.

350K Quicktime movie (no sound) using Sorenson Codec

Time well-wasted. This is one of my first effects animation projects from my class last year. I shot it all in negative to get the weird lighting effect. When I originally did it, I did blacklit multiple layers of cels and the end result was very difficult to see. I used 'screen' layers in After Effects to re-assemble it and I fiddled witht he brightness and contrast. Took a lot more time but it's at least semi visually-readable now.

I love After Effects. Now that I know how to use it, it does virtually everything I wanna do. I'm using it way more than I use Premiere now. o_O

Yay. Talking about animation geekery has improved my mood a bit. I guess that means I can head for bed now. :) Anyhow... Enjoy the film. Tomorrow I'll try to photo/upload UltraDad It's another super-short short I did last year. Layering should go much faster because I've learned how to do it right.

Ambush

Well. Tonight's ambush was 'What would you do if you were in the New York power outage?" Some people will probably be offended by mine. I'm really honestly surprised there wasn't More of This though. (Caution, makes some noise)