My Second Term
My second term has started here at the Art Institute of Portland.  I had my first class yesterday afternoon, Typography I.  I dropped it immediately after class ended.  It didn’t sound fun at all and I was the least bit interested in learning about typography.  I also dropped my Color Theory class, which I would have had this morning.   Instead, I added Intermediate Visual Effects, the next class after the Intro to Visual Effects class I took last term where I made the video from my previous post.  My remaining classes are Intro to Editing (video editing, that is), Intro to Audio, and 3D Modeling and Animation II.  Despite having only four classe

Visual Effects Video Short
Here is my first video short contain visual effects that I learned in my Intro to Visual Effects course at the Art Institute of Portland.  It could use a little polish, but considering that it is my first attempt and that I shot, edited, and composited the entire thing in four days, I think it turned out pretty good.  I’m sure a year from now, I’ll be totally embarrassed to watch it. The video is a combination of live action footage, rendered CG backgrounds modeled in Maya, several still images, and some visual effects created in Adobe After Effects.  The live action footage was shot in my apartment with my Canon 5DMK2.  The compositing and rotoscoping was