Ok to start, if you wanna get down to the bones of this and view the animation scroll to the bottom of this post of click here to view it in HD on Vimeo (I recommend that, HD is a big plus)

Direct link to SHIFT.chroma Animation

Last weekend I was worked on a short motion graphics piece. The idea was to record myself in front of a greenscreen and then incorporate an element of visual effects. As the recording and editing progressed I become more interested in abstracting the video to become a new medium, a sort of particular environment that I could explore. This intruiged me so I continued down this road. In this atricle I hope to share some of my own thoughts and techniques when it comes to working with after effects, etc. You’ll see that even with some rudimentary materials you can create some pretty impressive and vibrant visuals.

Ok so to give you a break down of what was involved it was something like this.

Film Greenscreen Content >> Capture/Cut/Key in Final Cut >> Particle Visuals, AE Camera Control, Sound FX & Music >> Final Ram Export

Thats the rough workflow, of course there were some forward-backward process as you can imagine. This isn’t going to be a tutorial but rather how you might approach working on something similar, I’ll go through each of the stages and fill you in on what worked and what didn’t.

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