Photoshop

Photoshop from Wynona Becker on Vimeo.

I recently bought photoshop so I've been playing around with it a lot. Here are some of the photos I worked on!

Particle assignment

Assignment 8

Return of the evil penguin!

I started this project off in photoshop.  The background is just an image that I pulled from google.  I drew the evil penguin with his lighter and I traced the TNT boxes from a cartoon image.  I also have a blue background layer that is made from a I  turned on its side in after effects in order to make a floor.  I imported all of these layers in to After Effects separately and made them in to 3D layers then spaced them accordingly.

I used text layers (just a bunch of underscores with a blur on them) to make the gun powder that the spark runs on and animators to make it disappear as the spark moves over it.  The spark is made of two separate particle system II effects on top of each other.  I made slight changes in the colors of them.  They are both line particles that fractal explosive with negative gravity to make them flow narrow and upwards.  The spark in the lighter is the same effect only the physic animation is jet sideways.

The smoke coming from the box is a particle system II effect.  The physic animation is set to cone axis and the particle types are faded spheres.  I had a hard time trying to get the smoke to slow down but who knows maybe there is just an item in the box with the TNT that becomes very smokey when on fire.  

The TNT box has an amazing Shatter effect on it (Thanks Ben!) making the explosion look really cool.  I had a bunch of effects added in to make the fire part of the explosion look the way it does.  The first one is a particle system II effect plus a Mr. Mercury effect mixed together to get that bubble of fire cloud shape in the middle.  The P.S. is set to a twirl animation with line particles and Mr. Mercury's animation is set to fire.   The orange dust cloud around the first effect is also made from Particle system II and Mr. Mercury but also has a Gaussian Blur added to it.  The P. S. has an fractal explosive physic animation and is made up of cube particles.  The Mr. Mercury is also set to a fractal explosive animation.  

Added on to this intial explosion are embers and two fire balls.  The embers are made from P. S. II with a Guassian Blur attached.  The P.S. II is adjusted to have a fire animation in a line particle format.  Then I brought down the birth rate to .1 and adjusted the radius so they would be spread out.   The two fireballs are made up of four layers, actually eight layers if you count the shape layers I used to mask their arrival position on the screen.  There are two layers on each fireball - one gray & black and the other orange & yellow.  I made the grey & black have less of a birth rate and less opacity in order to see through it to the orange particles in order to give it a smokey fire look.  The orange layers have a fast blur set on them.  Besides those differences the four layers are all set to P. S. II with a fire animation on a cube particle.  They all have Gaussian blurs applied to them as well.  Then I set them in place and had them move positions in order to make them fly.  

I also added in a camera and just panned across the screen to follow the spark.  Then I zoomed in to the picture on the z-axis in order to get closer to the action of the exploding TNT box.  

That pretty much sums up how I made this mass chaos due to evil penguin. 

Text Assignment

Text Assignment from Wynona Becker on Vimeo.

I used the first part of the Pledge of Allegiance for my text assignment. The word 'Pledge' has an animator on it to make it scale up as we fly by it.  I used an animator for rotation on 'allegiance' to make it pop up.  Then I used a stencil to put the American flag behind the word 'flag' and added a ripple effect to the word to make it wavy.  I used a shape mask to make 'the United states of America' ride on the twisty path.   I had the camera weave in and out of the words.  After we went by the words I had their opacity lowered so they would disappear. 

Assignment 6

Evil Penguin!

Untitled from Wynona Becker on Vimeo.

I don't know why I'm in an evil penguin mode but its working for me.  I love penguins, really I do.  I drew everything on photoshop, each on a separate layer.  (I traced the evil penguin from my favorite book: Evil Penguins: When Cute Penguins go Bad)  I brought the separated layers in to After Effects and made them in to 3D layers.  After that I arranged where I wanted everything and created a camera and key framed its motion.  I added animation to the snowball that the evil penguin is holding.  I'm not sure why the snowball is see through and then turning solid.  It shows up normal, as a solid, in After Effects.  Other than that this project was really fun I really enjoying using cameras and 3D in After Effects.

Assignment 4

Assignment 4 from Wynona Becker on Vimeo.

Hey There!

The poor penguin is getting attack by snowballs!  I used curves and eases to get the snowballs to move slowly at first and then quickly as they splat down.  

-The background I made in flash

-The penguin is an image from online that I color corrected on photoshop

- I made the snowballs, snowball after-poofs, and clouds on photoshop

- I found the snow effect on After Effects and added it in.  Its probably too sunny for it to be snowing but I thought it looked cool so woot for snow!

Assignment 3

After Effects Fun!

Assignment 3 from Wynona Becker on Vimeo.

For this assignment I put together a bird's eye view shot of a kids room. There is a plane flying from the ceiling fan and a car race on the floor.


I started by bringing in still pictures in to photoshop:
A bed - I looked for a more kid-like bed but I was limited since I needed it to be viewed from straight above

A bed - I looked for a more kid-like bed but I was limited since I needed it to be viewed from straight above

Toy plane

Fan

Toy race Track

Toy cars

Carpet

I used masks (on all but the carpet) to cut out the objects from their original pictures then copy/pasted them to their own layers. The carpet I used the clone stamp to enlarge over the entire area. Then I resized and arranged the images on to the spread and then edited them to look a little more natural. I used the burn tool to make the bed look more 3D. I blurred everything on the floor to give it a feel of being at a greater distance than the fan.


Then I brought all of the layers in to After Effects.
First, I set the rotation for the fan. (After setting the anchor point of course) I set the fan as a parent to the rope and the rope a parent to the plane and the plane a parent to its shadow. I added a motion blur to all of these except to the plane because I felt the blur made it to hard to identify. The shadow still has a blur on it. It's also scaled up a few sizes and has a lowered opacity.


The little race cars are each following a motion sketch. They both have motion blurs applied to them. They are magic cars that race on their own! This kid has cool toys.

Photoshop Assignment

I started with a Halloween picture of myself as a vampire.  I went through and touched up blemishes and other weird spots with the healing brush.  Then I went through using the Dodge tool on the face area and Burn tool on my hair, lips, eyeliner and background.  I really wanted that pale blown out to give it a vampire feel.  I blurred out the background as well as the edges of the photo.  After that I sharpened the eyes only to make them pop more.  The black eyeliner wasn't quite the way I liked it so I used the blur tool to make it smoother around the eyes.  Then I created a mask layer isolating the eyes and saturated the picture to make it black and white with only the eyes in color.  Next came the background.  I found a picture of a castle wall on google and used it as the background.  I used the selection tool to grab as much of the face and hair as I could then applied it to a new layer.  Then I put the castle picture on to its own layer.  I lowered the exposure on the picture then burned the right edge of it.  I went through and blurred the whole picture to make it look more in the background and to blend it with my hair.  I had to smudge around the hair to make it look more natural.  

Before:

Before Mask:

Before matte:

Final: