Tormenta Monday, March 30, 2009 | comments:
Tormenta - cool word, huh!? It's simply Spanish for "storm" and its the perfect title for my latest motion graphics animation - check it out:
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This video was a lot of fun to create! It was made entirely in Adobe After Effects (with some minor image editing in Adobe Photoshop.) I got the chance to use a few new plugins I obtained for AE, along with my favorites - Trapcode Particular (for the rain) and Video Copilot's Twitch (for the light flashing and blur effects.)
Trapcode Form is a really powerful plugin - I've only scratched the surface of its potential by using it to create the slow motion 3D raindrops. I can't wait to play with it some more!
I used Trapcode Horizon to create the courtyard in the second scene. Horizon allows you to map a 360° panoramic image (I found mine on flickr) to the background and rotate around inside of it - simulating an actual 3D environment. Very cool stuff!
I used Trapcode Shine for the god-rays in the first scene. Kind of a simple plugin, but it does its job well! Oh, and the Mercury plugin was used for the raindrops in the intro.
Rendering was a beast with this project! Scene two took nearly 12 hours to completely render all of the raindrops, ugh... I saved some time by using simple sphere particles for the fast-rain in the first scene. I think they give more of a full-feel to the scene than the 3D drops did anyway :)
Big thanks to my friend Matt for the inspiration on the words I used in scene two - "Transcends All Labels" was a comment he used to describe me in a blog I posted a few weeks ago and I felt it fit perfectly in this video.
The music is by the late Swedish punk rock/hardcore band REFUSED. The title of the song is Tannhäuser/Derivè and its off their album "The Shape Of Punk To Come: A Chimerical Bombation In 12 Bursts."
I hope you enjoy the video!
Labels: After Effects, Animation, motion graphics, Tormenta, video
