Started Working On Our Next Project, Before I Can Finally Finish The Diorama *sigh*

Started working on our next project, before I can finally finish the diorama *sigh*

We’re doing a 10-15 second kinetic type video, utilizing the After Effects program and all of its effects and capabilities. As you all can see, I am taking some inspiration from Bill Wurtz for a test run of the program I did in class today. 

I want to have some fun with this project, and just be goofy. I’m about a week and a half from being done with college forever, and I’d like to go out on a little but of a wild note. 

I love this dude.

Wayne White takes old paintings from the thrift store and paints 3D text within to create a new space. I love the humor that is prevalent in a lot of his work and I would definitely love to have some of these hanging around my house.

I really like how integrated into the environment the text is, like here how some of it is hidden behind the trees. Like you feel if you went to this spot in real life you’d expect to find this text there as a giant statue. 

a serious man

Some inspiration for kinetic type. I like how smoothly everything is animated. Probably won’t get to make it that smooth but some of the basic effects I’m going to look into recreating in the next couple of days. I like the ripple the S has going on, I might do that when I have all of the text up on screen . 

I’m still looking for examples of bouncing text, but I’m obviously keeping my options open for what it ends up turning out as. 

Figured it would be fun to animate this :) 

For funsies. This will probably end up turning into something later. Damn it.

Another movie I saw recently that falls into my “cozy horror” genre. It’s a French horror film about a vegetarian veterinary student who discovers some hidden instincts within herself during a hazing process at her university. The imagery is no where near as colorful as in Suspiria, but it is given on a much more realistic level, hitting me with more anxiety than Suspiria did. Much of the early movie contain scenes with a certain kind of nature that I am very drawn to in storytelling: otherwise normal scenarios...but there’s just something a little bit off. 

The poster design here is also very illustrative and cool, and I think it really does capture the nature of the film. 

Art for Julia Ducournau’s “Raw” (”Grave” in French) by Matthew Therrien.