“[ Creators ] – Paranormatrix Part 2” – Animation Process/Analysis

Completion Date: December 26, 2023Time Taken: About 6-7 monthsPrograms Used: FireAlpaca, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Online Sequencer, MuseScore If this was any time to try outdoing myself, it was now. This animation is very important to me for multiple reasons. It was the last of the three projects first storyboarded…

“[ PenUltimate ] – Cayden’s First Day” Animation Progress

Time Taken: ~3 monthsPrograms Used: FireAlpaca, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro I'm going to try not to make this post too sentimental or sappy. This is my final assignment as a college student, that's the short and short of it. While I knew it would be hard to top last semester's…

“[ Creators ] – Paranormatrix” Animation Process

Time Taken: 3 monthsPrograms Used: FireAlpaca, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro This is it, one of the two "Grand Finales" that concludes my time in the Digital Media and Animation program, and I was going to make it count. (Especially since this was the only animation I worked on all semester.)…

Alfred State Bandwagon – Video Editing

At the start of this school year, I volunteered to be one of the founding members of Alfred State's new digital marketing/entertainment program: Bandwagon. Bandwagon is in charge of advertising events on campus as well as providing studio space for any student, club, or organization to use. However, the space and equipment can also be…

“[ Lightverse ] – Castor’s Vision” Animation Process

Prompt - Your Choice (I chose "Nightmare") Goal: Utilize everything I've learned this semester and use it to create a 30-second narrative animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL3ucv8A48k To say a lot of time went into this project is an understatement. However, I haven't had this much fun and motivation towards a pure animation assignment in a while. Since…

“The Misadventures of Illuminer” – Production Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNUYlqPq0Gw In this piece, I explored the "Hero" archetype. This short film contains a condensed version of "The Hero's Journey" narrative structure, as well as a moment of the hero character falling into one of their downfalls: having an ego. Space is utilized quite a bit in this film; mainly flat space. I wanted to…

Video Art Project – “Broken Reality”

https://vimeo.com/523274573 My goal for this project was simple: Break Reality. Surprisingly, I was able to accomplish that solely with Adobe Premiere Pro. I thought I would have to use After Effects as well but all it took was some playing around with Premiere's Ultrakey effect to delete the white snow; then it was a matter…

“Silence vs. Noise” – Short Video Project

https://vimeo.com/514439340 Using the article 6 Trends That Define Visual Culture Now by Ben Davis as a reference, I created a narrative piece based on the concept of "Silence vs. Noise". What Davis described was a trend towards minimalist design choices, but I decided to take it and make something that reflects it more in a…

“Arin’s Anxiety” – Animation Process

Objective: Create an animation using a media of choice that demonstrates anticipation, arc, overshoot, and secondary animation. Prompt: "Anxiety, Anyone?" Overall, I would consider this piece a success. I very much enjoy "bouncy" animation and this was a great opportunity to play around with that while thinking about how to use the advanced principles. In…

“Right Here, Right Now” – Illustration Process

Work in Progress images: Final Product: Throughout 2020, I've been trying to maintain an optimistic outlook on things, maybe that's why this piece turned out the way it did. I wanted to put less of an emphasis on the issues of "today" (Fall 2020) and more so focus on the surroundings. I'm very pleased with…