Thursday, 8 December 2011
Kinect + Garry's Mod
The reason I have put this video on here is because The game has not been made for the connect but the creator just did some hacking into the game and added a use for the Kinect by letting you take control of the charecters
ROS + Kinect
The reason I added this video is that because it shows you that the kinect can be used for more than the simple gaming idea this video shows people using it to control a robots movements. This other use for the kinect is shown in the video above also
Xbox Kinect
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Green screen
What we did for this lesson is that we got a white background and got a manaquin standing in front with a camera ( cannon 5D) on a tripod ready to take pictures of it. Also we had a green light to make the background green for green screening. in the studio we took a picture with the manequin in one position then moved it a bit then took another picuture and so on to make it look like it is moving.
When editing we leaned how to use the chroma key to change the background but what we needed to do to get it just right was to mess around with all the different settings to make it work The problem was because we all took so long to learn how to chroma key we couldnt finish the animation.
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Light Animation
Last lesson we were doing light animation What we did was turn the camera we were using (Cannon 5D) in to a setting called bulb where it opens the shutter and takes in all the light it sees which creates the effect of the light so what we ended up doing is that we turned off the lights and got torches which were in different colours then we make shapes with the lights creating an image.
Then after we split into our own groups we made a christmas themed picture where we made christmas tree with presents and decorations on the tree in our groups
Then after we split into our own groups we made a christmas themed picture where we made christmas tree with presents and decorations on the tree in our groups
This Video Is a light animation we made.
What we did was we got one person to be player on and the other to be player 2 what they did was draw lines up and down repeatedly to create the likes and somebody was making a circular motion with another coloured torch to make the ball while another person was telling all of them how to do it. then when we hold down the capture button and got the first image we would move a bit then get a new one then do the same again and again then until we were done getting the images. Then editing the video on final cut I put all the images on the time line and shortened the duration to 00.00.00.03 Secconds. It is like a bigger version of stop animation
Thursday, 17 November 2011
In this video what we did was going into pairs and made an animation by getting my lego man and car with a tripod and camera (cannon 1000D) and then made him move by taking a picture then move him a bit took another picture move him again ect It was stop animation.
We did this so the charecter would go into the car and drive away which was a easy thing to animate because the changing positions of the figure wasnt complicated to do. When editing in final cut all we had to do was drag all of the pictures into the timeline and change the duration to 00.00.00.03 amd then we had the video.
I thought the video was ok the charecter going into the car was pretty cool i thought but the driving away was a little sloppy as it made no sence if i could do this animation again id made him drive away more and take care while taking a picture of it.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Last Week
Last week Vinny took us out to do some portrait photography.
We got a white background which was actually a cheap blinds and then we set up the lighting equipment which were Bowen gemini lights.
Vinny gave us the freedom to move the lights however we wanted Also he got a Bowens
3 way Grid diffuser to get a better picture for the portraits. in my picture the lighting wasn't very good because i was the second person to take pictures and the class had not got the hang of messing with the lighting yet.
But as we carried on with the lesson the pictures gradually got better as we were getting the hang of altering the position of the lights and the light intensity.
The top picture is of pete and thats a picture I took of him. When i did this i had to experiment different lighting and positions
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Zombie Session
Last Thursday we ere dressing up as zombies and had to have a photo shoot for making a Zombie film poster for Lance.
We had a make up designer called Kate who showed us different techniques on how to make the zombies look realistic. Roger was going to do my make up first he got a sponge and painted my face purple and after made some scars all over the face. Kate gave me a fake bullet wound that you stick to your head and it basically looks like you have been shot. I put it on my head. Also I got Molly to back comb my hair to make it look a bit wild and out of control.
Kate showed us a way of making fake blood by getting chocolate sauce and mixing it with red food dye this actually worked pretty well as we were taking pictures I got the blood all over me which made some pretty good pictures.
When we got into the studio there was a green light on to add some spooky effect. As the pictures were being taken Roger was telling me what kind of poses he wanted as they were being taken.
After a while Stephen came with a blanket and wrapped it around me to give more spooky feelings of the images
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Bowens Gemini lighting session
What we did to get these pictures were that we had Bowens Gemini lightning to make the pictures look better.
We had to set up the lighting by first getting the tripod out then connected it to the light after that we got the battery and hooked it up to the light.
The camera we used was a cannon 5D and that was also connected to the lighting equipment. so that as we take pictures it would flash to give better lighting in the image.
when using the camera we learned about ISO , shutter speed and F stops.
ISO controls the cameras sensitivity to light so the higher the sensitivity the less light is needed. This is useful for taking effective pictures for example if an image is too light we could turn the sensitivity down or if you were taking a picture in the evening you could turn the ISO up to get more light.
Shutter speed controls the time the shutter is open letting light through the lens to the sensor inside the camera The times vary from very small seconds to several seconds. This would be useful if it was a bright day and there is a lot of light and you take a picture of something you may have the problem of leaving the shutter open too long and the too much light would get into the sensor making the image pale/white.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Friday, 7 October 2011
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Today we made some cut out movies we cut some pictures out then took pictures of them in the studio moving them each time to make it look that they are animated
I ended up making two the first one had a dog biting someones arm off which sorta of taught me how to do make it look more effective you have to really take your time to make it look better.
the second had a girl riding a car then falling off which was the one i thought was better because it was animated better and it was kinda funny . I thought the video went well how you can see clearly what happens but the problem is that the video is jut of a sudden and too quick
we used a canon 600D. bowens lighting we used a gemini 500w light the camera stand was cambo.
Friday, 16 September 2011
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