Just before i get into this, you tube stuff is coming along at a snails pace. Its my own fault really bla bla bla. Still motivated to do it however.
On to GIFS.
So, in addition to overly complex gifs, i’m also gonna make simple ones. Some with text some without text, but here are my first ones.
Sword combat = interesting…… just saying.
Would also like to see kirito 1v1 every single Jedi in star wars. It’d be interesting to watch ;).
k bye
nerds
“The good news is, you no longer need to wonder where your god is! BECAUSE HE’S RIGHT HERE…. and he’s fresh out of mercy…” – Abridged KIrito, you hilarious bastard.
Today is the day that i finally finished the Kirito gif, and i am very pleased with the result.
Here it is.
I’m pleased with how everything turned out, the glow effect, the fractal noise, the wave effects, everything. The main thing however, is that i can move on to other things now. I’ll continue to do animated gifs, but the scene has to feel alive for me to visualize how it would look.
So what now? Well, hopefully more frequent and interesting posts. These will hopefully include news about the Microsoft hololens as well as videos I’ve created.
Instead of slowly killing myself by doing 2 intensive things in one week, ill do one thing a week.
And it will also start next week, considering i was spazzing out trying to get two things done, as well as all the other stuff going on.
But there is a reason to this post, progress on the gif.
Im starting the gifs by improving the old ones, and i think this is an improvement. Its unfinished, the animation isnt looping properly, and the sparks aren’t in yet, but its a significant improvement.
So, its gonna go like this, hopefully. This week, ill finish this off, next week is video, then gif, then vid etc. As well as other post in between.
This effect has answered so many questions on how i achieve different effects. In this particular example, the effect is the blue mist radiating from the sword with some clever masking and feathering to make it look like it fades out.
This can also be used with other effects, such as turbulent displace, to create a natural looking wavy effect.
Other small things to note is that the sword has a pulsating glow, but this won’t be used in the final gif as this effect covers up most of the gif. My next challenge is to recreate this effect with an adjustment layer, and make the fractal noise opaque. This would give a lighter effect, but i cant get the right color on the adjustment layer.
Literally uploading my videos, just because i want my post to be fresh and new. Not about stuff i created a long time ago.
I also want to improve on my editing skills because i think its sup-par at the moment.
The only editing style i know of is montage type videos, some of them are “montage parodies”, however the latest one i created was just a montage. Before doing another montage parody type video again, i want a clear image of what i need to do in my head.
All the videos were made with Sony vegas.
This was my first big idea for a montage parody type video, my first montage parody is below however. Only the editing portion is mine, none of the footage or music is mine at all, pls dont copyrekt me.
I like this type of parody, when its slightly longer. However this one is too long
This is of course the scene from sword art online floor 74 boss fight of dual wielding epicness.
Here is the next one:
(turn down speakers/RIP headphone users)
So this is the first parody i made, its kinda mediocre. But that is to be expected. The editing is ok, but i really f***** up the uploading part, and it has some weird letterboxing.
And this is my most recent one, which is just a montage.
I created this to show how detailed a video can be with some simple cutting, cropping and velocity changes. The footage is of the Attack On Titan Tribute Game found here: http://fenglee.com/game/aog/
I have no idea why there are red bars part way through the vid, i can’t remove them.
The Music is made by the AWESOME Danny Baranowsky: http://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com/
I do like making montage parodies, but it requires heavy editing, and is just too complicated for me at the moment. I’ll only try to make one if i have a clear idea of what to do. Montages are simpler to make however, so i’ll probably create more of them.
My new years resolution is to create more content, this is either through gifs or videos.
Anyway that’s all for today, if the google doc videos are white tinted when played, mouse over the full screen icon in the top right of the video, but dont click it unless you want fullscreen.
Now to share stuff that i create. All this blog is good for lolololol.
So, last year i finally decided to watch anime, after dismissing it for so long because it looked terrible. Decided to watch the most popular anime, Attack On Titan. Holy s*** it was amazing. After finishing the series, i then looked to see if there were any other series that would be just as good. Watched Sword Art Online, Just as good as AOT if not better. That show was literally aimed at me. Main character is teen gamer? Sword combat? Hell yes!
Anyway, watching them was Inspiring. As a present, i need Elucidator, it just needs to happen.
Now on to my favorite game, Hearthstone.
If i could, i would make all my friends and family play it. It is a ccg (collectible card game) based on World of Warcraft from Blizzard. It is super fun and addicting, but doesn’t feature many game modes.
One aspect of hearthstone is it has golden animated cards, as seen here – http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/454-rampage
I wanted to create an animation like this, but had no idea how to even get started, or what to animate. I eventually learned that you need after effects from adobe to create these animation types, all i needed now was something to animate…
this is the result –
Looking at it, the image has a low quality with some strange dotting effect. However, i think i did well as a first attempt and i would love to do more of these. At a higher quality of course. Most of these might be about anime as well, as it is easier.
That’s it for now. Don’t know what the hell i’m gonna post next time but…… meh.