Keywords: Industrial, Chase
Do with them as you will. Be as vague or literal as you want.
Color Pallete: Old Tyme
You can also download the ASE file. You don’t have to strictly use only these colors, but you should try to include some or all of them.
Technicals: 1280×720, 23.976fps
You can work at 1080p if you want, but we’ll assemble the final compilation at 720p.
Each section is roughly 10-12 seconds. I tried to make them about equal, but the breaks don’t all land on a natural musical phrase. It won’t be that easy on you! [If you want, you can download the full song here, and the last half (the one we're animating) here.]
We’re encouraging you to contact the person before and after you to figure out how the pieces will fit together. But if you don’t, that’s okay too. This is a giant experiment and pretty much anything goes. (If you don’t know how to contact the other animators, let me know and I’ll probably be able to help out.)
So that’s it! We’ll talk progress at our next meetup on July 21st. The tentative deadline is our August meetup on August 18. Let’s see what happens!
This just arrived in my inbox from our friends over at the Milwaukee Animation Group. A local filmmaker is looking for an After Effects artist to do some compositing and VFX work on a sci-fi film in August. Looks to be a paying gig as well. Information follows:
After Effects Whiz Needed for Feature Film
Wisconsin Filmmaker is starting post-production on a sci-fi movie, and is
looking for an After Effects expert to create explosions & muzzle flashes,
computer screen motion matching & design/animation, prosthetic makeup
fixing, and various other special effects.
This is a funded project, and the director is looking for a portfolio that
demonstrates the artists’ ability to create the above effects.
The artist that is chosen will be expected to work at their own facility and
use their own equipment, have solid, professional communication skills, be
able to take direction accurately, offer creative feedback, and be available
to work starting In August.
A few people from the last meet-up expressed interest in how they created the effect for the “Ok Go” music video. Topher Welsh of AE Tuts was kind enough to post a link on his twitter feed about how to recreate this very cool effect.
In light of our upcoming group project, I’m really going to push you guys for your contact info for our member directory (remember that?). We’re also going to compile a business directory, which was brought up in a previous meeting.
So, please use the contact form or send an email to paul [at] mographmilwaukee.net with whatever contact info you would like included (email, phone, twitter, vimeo, facebook, photo, position, company, etc…). If you would like your business included in a separate business directory, feel free to submit that info as well—just make sure it’s separate from your personal info. I just ask that any businesses asking to be listed provide motion design, animation, or VFX services.
Here is a sample of what a member listing might look like:
So let’s get going on this. Let’s make a definitive listing of motion designers, animators, and VFX artists, and businesses in the Milwaukee area.
[UPDATE: We will extend the deadline to our next meetup,Wednesday June 16th.]
Those of you at the meetup last Wendesday know that we have a project ahead of us. If you weren’t there, here’s the run down.
We were talking about this video from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. The basic premise is that the class took a song by AGF titled “Pianos,” broke it off into pieces, and each student animated that section of the song according to the extensive requirements you can see in the Vimeo description.
We all thought it looked like a pretty fun project, so we’re doing something similar. John Wangles was kind enough to lend us use of his track “#T.”
Comment on this post and “officially” sign up to be part of this project. We’ll need to know how many people are planning on contributing in order to break the song up. Let’s make Friday May 28th Wednesday June 16th the deadline.
We’ll come up with some theme or constraints to make sure we’re all on the same page. So feel free to make suggestions. We’ll put up a poll on the blog to see what wins out by popular vote.
Once we have our list of people, we’ll break up the song and randomly assign sections. We’ll post the list along with contact info so you can talk to whomever is before and after you. Hopefully this will help smooth over transitions and make a more cohesive piece.
We’ll also come up with some sort of deadline & format requirements for final renders (which will more than likely be 16:9). But beyond that and the theme we end up choosing, it’s entirely open. 3D, 2.5D, 2D, cell-animation, stop-motion… the method doesn’t matter.
So sign up and suggest themes/constraints/color palettes/whatever in the comments. Lets get this going!
You’ve probably noticed that we’ve been a bit quiet lately. The reason is two-fold. One, sometimes I have a personal life… sometimes. One of those ’sometimes’ has been recently. Things have just been a bit busy on my end. The second is that we’re looking for a new venue to host some more focussed events and meetups. Miles and I are looking at Bucketworks tonight to see if it will fit our needs. Hopefully it will.
This brings me to my next point, we’re having a meetup soon, emphasis on soon. This time around, there will be more focussed discussion instead of a free-for-all as we’ve had in the past. We’ll still be looking at cool/inspiring videos and discussing what we’ve each been doing lately, but to kick things off, we’ll be talking about two items of interest to me lately: the possibility of a VFX union, and the state of numerous online tutorials and how they affect the up-and-coming motion designers as well as established talent (so, everyone).
Now, this isn’t to say all our events here-forward are going to be centered around topics solely chosen by one or two people. Most events will morph around and change depending on who shows up and what’s interesting to them. So, if you have something you want to talk about, bring it up! Or, if you have an idea for a lead discussion or having speakers come in, let us know either in the comments or by dropping us a line at info [at] mographmilwaukee.net.
An idea came up at the last meetup to compile a listing of members and their contact info. This way, after a meetup when you’re thinking “Hey, there was that guy that was talking about this awesome thing… I have a couple questions for him,” you can look them up in the listing and drop them a line.
So, if you want t have your information listed, feel free to send it to paul@mographmilwaukee.net. You can include as much or as little as you want. As an example, you could send your name, picture, phone number, email, Twitter, Facebook, website, company & position, etc… Or you might just send your name and email. It’s entirely up to you.
As names start coming in, I’ll compile the list and put it up on the site for all to peruse.
We keep talking about adding videos to the Mograph Milwaukee group on Vimeo. So we figure, maybe we should do a quick tutorial. So here it is, in two clicks:
Pending any scheduling conflicts, we will host our January meetup on Wednesday the 27th at Riverfront Pizzeria at 7:30pm.
We had a great time at the December meetup. Thanks to all those who came out. It was a great way to get to know other motion designers in the area. We want to keep things informal at these meetups, but we hope to have a slightly (only slightly) more focused discussion this time around. The topic is still to be decided, but chances are we’ll be viewing some work (both our own and others) so bring something to show. If you’re on Vimeo, you should post videos to our group. We’ll be using that as a sort of collection basket for videos to discuss at meetups and other events.
Got an idea for what do discuss? Leave a note in the comments.
We’ll post more details to the site as we figure them out. As with everything in life, it’s a work in progress…
Are you on Vimeo? You’re in luck. Mograph Milwaukee has a new group on Vimeo. We want to accomplish a couple things with this: first, it is a great way to share videos with each other, both yours and others’ that inspire you. Second We’ll probably pull from this group to show videos at meetups.
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