Text Assignment

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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!

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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

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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!

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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:

Introduction

Howdy!

I'm Wynona Becker (no, not like Winona Ryder or Wynonna Judd but pronounced When-oh-na) but feel free to call me Nona. Anywho, I'm a senior RTF major (not so much the R) at the University of Texas graduating in May. My focus is mainly in Post Production. My dream job is editing for TV on a sitcom/drama.

I work for KLRU-TV, Austin's local PBS station. This is my fourth year working for KLRU. I started in the development department but then after a year and a half I transfered to the production department. I assist the producers with daily work and help on the local shows: Austin City Limits, Central Texas Gardner, Docubloggers, and Texas Monthly Talks. Just recently I produced and edited my own segment on the show Docubloggers. The segment is an interview of children's book author R. L. Stine when he visited town for the Austin Book Festival.

Last Spring I moved to Los Angeles with the UT-LA program. I completed an internship on the movie Spread starring Ashton Kutcher. I worked in the production office and occasionally got to go to set to observe and help out. I learned about everyone's position and the inner workings of a movie from more of a producer's stand point. One of the classes I took in the UT-LA program required us to make a short movie as a group. I took on the position as editor for my group. We created the YouTube spoof making fun of a Jimmy Kimmel sketch.

This past summer I interned on the documentary Tattooed Under Fire directed by Nancy Schiesari during its post production phase. Some of the things I assisted the editor with were pulling stock footage, verifying information, finding sound effects, and transcribing.

Other non-RTF facts about me: I love penguins, the color green, tennis, and cheese.