first AE creation

[crazycatz]

hey there!
so i was bored a few days ago, and decided to see if i could make anything in after effects, and this is the result,
http://people.uleth.ca/~matt.babinec/mpeg.mpg
its the first real thing i've ever made in the program, and was just lookin' for some feedback from you guys! so... what do you think?

 

[Geoff_Reisner]

Pretty cool man, what do you shoot this with, a DVX? The only thing that throws me off when looking now is that the light on the subject doesn't change when the walls go down. Maybe if you rigged a light on both sides and had those timed to go on, it'd simulate sunlight or something pouring into the room/subject.

 

[surf]

how did you do that, I mean, which method did you use?

 

[crazycatz]

Pretty cool man, what do you shoot this with, a DVX? The only thing that throws me off when looking now is that the light on the subject doesn't change when the walls go down. Maybe if you rigged a light on both sides and had those timed to go on, it'd simulate sunlight or something pouring into the room/subject.

yes, it was shot with the dvx in 24pa, and would i just create a light then make it affect only the layer the subject (me) is on? the keyframe that on when the wall dissapears?

how did you do that, I mean, which method did you use?

i created a mask for the two walls, then keyframed those to dissapear when i turned to each one, and created another mask for the bed and myself, and animaited the mask for the movement. toook a little while, would there have been an easier way to do that, instead of animaiting the mask for each frame?

 

[surf]

yes , If you had shot it in a blue screen, it would have helped a lot!

 

[crazycatz]

haha yea okay. i was just trying to get the hang of masks and animaiting them when i was doing this, and i think it turned out pretty well!