Flashback #4 – INVADE

So, I was bored during the summer and I wanted to practise, experiment and learn some more motion graphics. Due to my heavily limited cinema4D skills I wasn’t able to do completely what I wanted with the Darth Vader 3D model helmet but I think I worked around it pretty efficiently. The emphasis of this was the 2D and coming up with lots of ideas that fit and synced well with the music. I used adobe after effects for the 2D and obviously cinema4D for the 3D. I took me about 2 days on and off to do this. I’m still learning cinema4D and if you are planning on going into media and visual effects I would highly recommend you learn a program like C4D or 3DS Max because they are sort out skills in the industry especially has not many people know how to use them.

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INVADE. intro from Emil Nweje on Vimeo.

Flashback #3 – I went to the Olympics for free

So, on our final day of college we were all given free tickets to the London Olympics being held over summer. This was due to us doing crappy stop frame animations that I won’t do you the displeasure of sharing. The upside to the project is obviously getting the tickets and an all day travel card but also the opportunity to do some filming. I decided to take my 50mm f/1.8 lens, which in hindsight wasn’t the best idea. Even though with was brilliant at getting good night shots a lot of the shoots were out of focus. Also a lot of the footage was shot while we were walking around the Olympic park / village area which made it quite shaky which I tried to fix in post. Speaking if editing even though it’s a modern time and video, I wanted to create a retro feel. I did this by using an old school song and adding some purple vibrant but washed out colour grading as well as some film grain for good measure. A big feature is I synced the footage the soundtracks snare drum with jump cuts. I think it keeps the visuals interesting and flow better. I did this mainly for the memories.

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LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 from Emil Nweje on Vimeo.

Can you make me a Logo?

So, because I made my own logo and people of the Internet were intrigued by this they constantly asked me to make them intros. For the longest time I was reluctant because I’m lazy but I thought a good incentive for me would be money. I started charging people for a simple logo and a quick intro animation for £10. I think this little side project was successful. I was able to get some logo and graphics design practise as well as earn some quick cash.

I also made some speed arts of me working on the logos and intro which can be seen below. Message me on YouTube or Twitter if you want your own.

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Learning Cinema.

So, Since I got a brand spanking new laptop for my birthday which is ten times more powerful and fast than the PC I was using, I decided now would be the perfect time to learn a 3d modelling / animation program. The best choice in my opinion being MAXON’s Cinema 4D because it has most online tutorials and guides to learning the program. I still a massive amateur at the program but I’m still learning… slowly.

If you are thinking of learning this as well, some great tutorial makers than you could look up are GreyScaleGorrila, iDigitalUniverse, ChromeDesignsHD and AcrezHD. Do a quick Google search and you find their stuff.

Here are a few pictures and animations I have made since starting to learn the program from online tutorials.

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All Professional ‘n’ Stuff

So, we were tasked with creating a short documentary based on a specific section of a book. We, Josh Newport, Ryan Mills and I were given Andre Bazin (1967) ‘The Evolution of the Language of Cinema; in ‘What is Cinema?’ Our idea was to do an interview in the style of movie promotional interviews you see. I really enjoyed this project because it felt professional and we had a set goal and we had a clear idea of how we were going to achieve it. This is was also a great opportunity to use the green screen and getting some practise with shooting and editing with it. In terms of improvements I think that its too long for what it’s meant to achieve but unfortunately what is said by Ryan and Josh is all relevant. I think if given the opportunity to re-do this again; we would keep the answers more concise. Just so the audience, being media arts students, don’t get bored and stay engaged.

The feedback we received for the video was extremely positive, they said the even though it was long it didn’t feel long and the conversation and the video flowed and had a good pace. A few improvements would be, playing around with music more and making the build ups in the track better fit with how the conversation was going because at some points where they thought the video was over because of crescendos and decrescendos of the music.

I have quite a few flashbacks that I want to put up so those are what I will be working on soon.

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Andre Bazin ‘The Evolution of the Language of Cinema’ from Emil Nweje on Vimeo.