City Timelapse

NightFall from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

Needed to post this. These timelapses are incredible. Simply. Alright. I'm done here.
Maybe, one day, I'll make a decent timelapse. Maybe.

Brief Experimentation

Just an experiment on Cinema 4D. One of the few things I've done without a tutorial recently...
The program is so complex so I figured the more time I spend messing around on it figuring out bits and pieces, the easier and more familiar it'll become. Tutorials practically move your mouse for you and therefore don't always actually help you learn the ins and outs of a program very efficiently.
This was basically just different shapes and textures and lighting. Nothing too complex. Some shapes glow, some are transparent, some reflect, some rough, etc.

365 Art

This is the most interesting thing I've seen in a while. Really creative. Just felt like sharing.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Make-Something-Cool-Every-Day-2009/171640

That Rare Occassion

I don't skate, but I hang out with a fair amount of skaters. I generally don't like skate videos because I find them to be repetitive. They're usually filmed on a handycam. With an over the top fisheye. Possibly even the horendous circular fisheye, not even aspherical. Nastayy. And they're rarely edited beyond the simple cuts. No effects. No color correction. This goes with parkour videos too, but more people that aren't proffessional put in the work,  at least I'd say. For me to enjoy a video, it either usually needs to make me want to be that person, or admire the work put into it. That's difficult to do with videos without as much care and work put into them.

THIS video though. Absolutely perfect. A unique style to the skating as well. Color corrected, not a bunch of skaters in the background yelling. (Sorry, not a fan of unnecessary background people)

They used some archival footage, color corrected it with the seeming atmosphere of the location. A retro-ish yellow purple because it was in the desert and abandoned. I usually think of a slight purple tint as either hipster, instagram-y, or retro. Hipsters and Instagram just trying to be vintage anyways so...

This video also makes me want to learn to skate. He makes it look like such an art.
#wishfulthinkings

After Effects: Kinetic Typography - Choose Not to Fall

I wanted to try something new with After Effects, so I decided to give kinetic typography a go. It's incredibly tedious. A total time consumer. I've spent a while on this on and off. Came back to it yesterday to finish it up. This is just a minute of the original 3 minute video. I chose this video because, well, you have to use words or lyrics (usually) and because it involves parkour. I also think what Daniel Ilabaca is saying is relatively true and agree with his ideas and mindset.

This was how it was made:
-Choose a video (Choose Not to Fall -  Daniel Ilabaca)
-Create a background (I chose a white background with a slight vignette)
-Choose a font
-Type EVERY word of the part you're doing as individual Text Layers
-Position, re-size them, etc.
-Set them to appear as they say each word
-Add an effect to the more important words
-Create any interesting graphics etc. in other compositions
-Add other graphics, position them
-Create Null Object Layers and make them the parent layer of sets of words/graphics
-Animate Null Object Layers to move into the frame etc. bit by bit
-Add credits

So yeah. I think that was everything. This is what it came out to be:





The original video: