Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
Lamnidae
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
A short experiment in 3d and after effects. Put together in 2 days, just playing around with cinema 4d’s after effects integration and also combining particular with that of 3d footage.
Audio improvised and recorded by me.
Tags: 3d, design, lamnidae, motion
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The Thing
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Title Sequence for the John Carpenter movie. Still not entirely sure what i think about this video, i’ve worked harder on it that anything else i’ve ever done, and i do know that it’s the best thing that i’ve done so far, but i spent so long in and out of love with the project, i can’t really look at it much anymore.
There’s two versions, this is the shorter of the two, this ones a bit more cleaner-cut than the other, and there’s a section in the other video that seems a bit out of place (i’ll have to get a second opinion).
I wanted to encapsulate a very visceral and foreboding image. So i took the tactile approach of renting a HDV camera and shooting some close-ups of various organic matter, taking many photographs of slimy textures to incorporate together into the short.
I personally think the still frames below are stronger than the video itself, would really love to hear your thoughts on it, since only three people including myself have seen the final prior to posting now.
Thanks to Rupert, for suggesting doing ‘The Thing’ as this project, and also Chris my tutor for really helping me out with ideas and motivating me, because i got tired with working on it alot.
Music by me.
Can’t wait to make something better.
Krystian Morgan interviewed about ‘The Thing’ at ArtoftheTitle.com
Featured in Computer Arts, issue #165
3rd Place Digital Artist Awards 2009
Tags: design, graphics, horror, motion, project, sequence, the, thing, title, typography, uni
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CSS-Tricks Intro Movie
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Motion Graphics intro movie created for the CSS-Tricks.com screencasts (look out for it in future episodes). Read more about this video at the posting at my new portfolio website: KrystianMORGAN.com [PL]. Music by me.
Also check out the new comment system here, and install it yourself on your blogs!
p.s. Quicktime is better at the moment 
Tags: css tricks, intro, Motion Graphics, movie
Posted in Blog News, Motion Graphics, Video, widescreen | 6 Comments »
.blok
Monday, September 8th, 2008
This little short was contrived whilst i was teaching myself matchmoving. I think i made every mistake that was possible to make whilst creating this, but at least i have the process dialed into my brain now. The softwares i used to make it are blender(3d) and icarus(3d tracker) you can get both of these applications for free although icarus is for non-commercial work only. Basically you take your shot into icarus and you track a number of areas of your footage, find out your camera’s focal length and location in 3d space, then you take that information acquired by icarus into blender and your camera’s location relative to the objects you filmed are matched and the camera path is already set for you, so then you add your cg elements to the scene and animate them how ever you like. All that’s left then is compositing the original footage with the cg footage in After Effects.
I’m pretty happy with the way that it has turned out, i’d probably like it to be a bit longer in retrospect but more than anything i’m looking forward to using these techniques in other videos along the line (especially if i get good at blender). P.S in the final shot where it goes blurry to focused back and forth, was all accidental, the camera which was in auto focus at this point got stuck into this weird limbo where it couldn’t focus on anything so bobbed back and forth like you see in the clip, i liked what it was doing so kept it in.
Check out some of the screenshots of the softwares at work below.
Hope you liked the video!
Tags: 3d tracking, after effects, blender, blok, icarus, matchmoving, visual effects
Posted in featured, Semanal, Video, widescreen | 7 Comments »
Blurred (instrumental)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Here’s a little instrumental song i wrote, hope to record it properly soon either by myself or as a band, and add a bit more depth and layer to it. This is sort of an experiment in posting this as i can create these videos more often in-between my other video experiments, animation etc… i’m not sure what sort of response this sort of video will get here, if it’s good, then i’ll do more variations like this from time to time, plus play different genres, and if it’s not received that well then i’ll get the picture and stick to what i’ve been doing.
I will say though, i do like the colour grading of it.
Tags: blur, colour grading, gibson, guitar, instrumental, music, song
Posted in Video, widescreen | 7 Comments »