Tiw Works » Video http://tiw.blogginggeek.com something like a portfolio Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 A Role Playing Games Documentary: “Men Of War” http://tiw.blogginggeek.com/2009/05/a-role-playing-games-documentary-men-of-war/ http://tiw.blogginggeek.com/2009/05/a-role-playing-games-documentary-men-of-war/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 20:29:11 +0000 tiw http://tiw.blogginggeek.com/?p=295

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This short documentary is about Role Playing Games, it will tell you what table top role playing game is and what it is not.
I have been working on this project since the last meet up of the Netherlands Role Players’ Guild.
I interviewed with 8 people in total, 6 of which I knew from the guild.
It costed me only 3×60mins of mini DV’s and around 2 days of re-watching, indexing and planning + 3 days of editing work.
The song at the back of the interviews is called “Bugün”, and it is composed and played by a friend of mine “Karaimer”. He also agreed to compose and play other songs for my upcoming short films. /happy

Anyway, here is the final edit of the video, so here you can watch and comment on it. So that I can make it better. And thanks for watching!

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Think of 24.500 people, visiting a small village which is decorated with various fantastic themes, dressing and behaving in anyway they like for two days. Anywhere you look, there is always something interesting to see. Lucky that I had my camera with me, so that I could make a short video out of it.

Elf Fantasy Fair takes place in Haarzuilens(The Netherlands) every year around April. It’s a fair where people go and have some fun, listen to some concerts, shop for all kinds of uncommon things they can’t find in their daily shopping trips. People dress as they like, behave as they like. It is a nice weekend to escape reality.

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It was time to take my collage experience to the next level.
This time I decided to teleport a real life character into a 3D game, World of Warcraft. The real life character seems a bit pixelized on the edges of his body, since the lighting was not good enough to make a perfect distinction between the actor and the background. I used a green shower curtain that I bought from IKEA for a 3.99 euro as a chrome key green screen :) Not professional but a cheap solution for hobbyist film makers.

For the collaging, I first used key-light plug-in for Adobe After Effects to make the curtain disappear and the vector paint effect to delete some other parts of the scene. Then logged in to my World of Warcraft account. Defined a macro and wrote “/applaud” in it. And dragged and dropped this macro button on Action Bar slot 1, so that whenever I press 1 on my keyboard my character would clap her hands. Then the nice trick of making the menus disappear comes: you just have to press CTRL+ALT+Z and everything but the world and characters disappears. After capturing this scene I got both movies to Adobe Premiere and made final transitions and added some tittles.. That’s it.

Now the problem is, I haven’t been playing wow for over a year, but for the sake of my upcoming project I reactivated my account. Let’s see how addictive it will become this time :(

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The first assignment we got at CREA Film Making Course was to shoot a 2 minutes of short film and edit it with Adobe Premiere. It is about a person facing an obstacle while doing his/her daily routine and then he/she finds a resolution. This can be about a woman dressing, a child doing his homework or a housewife cooking… Anything..

My story is a recursive one. It is telling about a girl, who can’t find a story to shoot for her film making course ;) And then she sees 2 other students talking about the same subject, and she copies their idea by shooting their conversation. And of course since it was so fun making this film, I added the cut scenes.

Enjoy!

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Lately I have been into video making and now I am trying some fire and smoke effects. Being the cute and tiny victim of my projects, my cat Copy will be dancing on fire for you this time.

There is not much to say, I used VideoCopilot.net and MaltaAnnon’s tutorials as my beginning point to Adobe After Effects. If you also feel like adding some cool effects on your videos, I would say go and get yourself an Adobe After Effects. Uh and don’t forget to create some free time; because video making really consumes a lot of time.

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Another project revised!
I developed this program for Computing and Art class, in 2005, so don’t expect too much of it -there is even a bug, you will see. I used Open Scene Graph as a graphics library and OpenAL as audio library. And we used Maya and Plant Studio to design the 3d models.

Jingle Jungle was ment to be the “Abstract Visualization of Interactive Sound Construction”, but for now it is only a demo of this sound construction visualization..

In further stages this could be adapted to help children learn sounds of nature faster.
Or even further stages of the program could use some human computer interaction through movement interpretation and people could make music while actually dancing.. A music that is adapting, changing speed and style according to your movements!
We could even project the camera views of 4 sides on the walls around the user and let the user navigate through the scene with his movements on a threadmill, or a WII board :-)

Or may be these are already done…
More ideas?

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This is the re-make of a parking interface I have designed for an Interface Design course when I was in the university.
I added some text, and audio for which I have to credit Matt Uelmen this time.

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It all started with me getting myself a Collector’s Edition DVD box of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas as a Christmas gift :]
Since there will be no work for a few days due to Christmas, I thought I have some time to spend on a hobby tonight. I had already registered for a Film Making course which will start on February but I couldn’t wait until then, and started to play around a little bit with my Windows Movie Maker 2.1. I know it is quite an old tool but I didn’t have any other choice for now.

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