Here is my first video short contain visual effects that I learned in my Intro to Visual Effects course at the Art Institute of Portland.  It could use a little polish, but considering that it is my first attempt and that I shot, edited, and composited the entire thing in four days, I think it turned out pretty good.  I’m sure a year from now, I’ll be totally embarrassed to watch it.

The video is a combination of live action footage, rendered CG backgrounds modeled in Maya, several still images, and some visual effects created in Adobe After Effects.  The live action footage was shot in my apartment with my Canon 5DMK2.  The compositing and rotoscoping was done in Apple Shake (a requirement for the class), which has got to be the most crash-prone piece of software that I have ever used.  Thankfully, Apple has discontinued the product so, hopefully, I won’t have to use it much in the future.

If you are familiar with the Matrix Trilogy, you will probably recognize where the idea came from for this video.  Granted, my version is no where near as well executed as in the Matrix films, but my budget wasn’t as big either.

Enjoy!

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