3D: Animation: 3D Community Center Visualization

I have been contacted by the S.C.H.A.P. (Sustainable Comprehensive Humanitarian Assistance and Planning) nonprofit organization to create a 3D visualization of a community center they are attempting to build in Nigeria. I have only been given a rough outline of what the community center will look like, but I will receive the official blueprints when they speak with an architect in Nigeria. It seems like a noble cause, and if successful, they will create similar community centers in other parts of the developing world. In order to build the visualization, I will be using Autodesk 3D Studio Max for the modeling, animating, and rendering.


http://schap.info/SCHAP/Home/Home.html

Video: Production: Lab Safety Videos Complete

(Left to Right: Josh Krohn, Uyen Nguyen, Alex Hansen)

The UCSD Organic Chemistry department, Environmental Health and Safety department, and their lawyers approved the tutorial videos, and they can be found on the following website in 720p HD. Luckily, we only had to remove one short scene and modify the disclaimers at the beginning of the videos. I was able to use Adobe Flash to create the video embedding files for web distrobution and re exported the videos with de-interlacing to remove any video artifacts.


http://chem-courses.ucsd.edu/CoursePages/Uglabs/143A_Weizman/EHS/EHS.html

Video: Production: New Chemistry Videos are up for Approval

(Photo taken on the set, while testing for sound and in the process of setting up lights and framing)

My friend Josh and I just completed work on three new training videos for the UCSD Organic Chemistry department, and the Environmental Health and Safety department. The videos are UCSD property so they are located on their website located below. I was responsible for shooting, lighting, sound (shame the mics we rented from UCSD wern't very high quality), animations, and exporting the videos for online and offline viewing. Once the videos are approved by both departments I will upload higher quality .F4V files without the interlacing issues that are present with the current test uploads.

http://chem-courses.ucsd.edu/CoursePages/Uglabs/143A_Weizman/EHS/EHS.html



The old Chemistry videos

News Articles
http://tinyurl.com/cnnarticlescitutorials
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-12-03-science-nice-sites_N.htm
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/12-07sorgovideoSS-.html


All of the videos can be found on Professor Haim Weizman's website
http://chem-courses.ucsd.edu/CoursePages/Uglabs/143A_Weizman/Lab%20manual.html

3D: Animation: New Chemistry Tank Animation (HD Available)

I just finished working on an animation for the new series of tutorials my friend Josh and I created for the UCSD Chemistry and Environmental Health and Safety departments. To make the nitrogen tank "explode" I created a 3d model in 3Ds Max and rendered it with the Mental Ray Renderer. In order to composite the photo of the lab with the 3d render, I used Adobe After Effects and Premiere.

2D: Animation: Motion Graphics: Logo

This was a project for an Adobe After Effects class I took. We had to make a 5 to 10 second long studio logo and animate it anyway we liked. I used 3D Studio Max to make the light rays for the first part, (since the After Effects I was using at the time didn't have the light rays plug-in) and simple After Effects animation for the rest. I ended up winning an award for the best logo in the class.

2D: Animation: Motion Graphics: Logo (HD Available)

This is a ten second logo I created for my friend Matt Stubstad and his film company. The logo itself was designed by my friend Jesse Chappo, and I did the animation. Matt wanted something that evoked the memories of old film reels, so I decided to create the film count down out of his logo. To make this I used Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects.

2D: Animation: Motion Graphics: Titles

I was asked to create these titles for my friend Matt Stubstad's student film Ten Years Time. The film is about a man who is wrongfully accused of a crime and sent to prison for ten years. This project was done in Photoshop and After Effects.

2D: Animation: Motion Graphics: Commercial

For my After Effects class we had to create a commercial for any product we wanted, but we could only use still images. I chose to do a commercial for Shadow of the Colossus, since I thought it was a cool game, and had an interesting art style. The entire video was created with still images and simple animations, masks, text, and a lens flare at the end for the Playstation logo.

2D: Photoshop: Poster

Sticking with the Orange Box theme, I decided to create a poster advertisement for the game. One of the requirements for this project was that it had to contain a scanned in 3D object as the major focus of the design. I tried to keep it simple and focus my design around a small cereal box that I painted orange then modified with shadow and bevel and emboss filters.

2D: Photoshop: Box Art

For this project, I decided to create new box art for the Orange Box, because I thought the packaging that valve decided to go with, while appropriate, was pretty ugly. For this project I composited found images, in-game screenshots (some that I took myself), and logos and miscellaneous things I created in Adobe Illustrator.

2D: Animation: Motion Graphics: Titles

This is an example of one of the five custom titles I created for the chemistry tutorial videos. Each one contains over 100 layers of animation (animated masks mainly) all tweaked by hand using Adobe After Effects.

3D: Animation: Molecule

I had to work very closely with professor Haim Weizman to create these molecule animations for the chemistry tutorial videos, since I have never taken a chemistry class. To make this animation I used 3D Studio Max with the Mental Ray renderer.

3D: Animation: Craig Tube

In this video, I created an animation of a craig tube / centrifuge for the chemistry tutorial video: Micro Recrystallization. To make the animation, I used 3D Studio Max, and the Mental Ray renderer. Originally, I wanted to make the centrifuge fade out, but professor Weizman thought it would be cooler if it blew up.

Video: Chemistry Tutorials

My friend Josh and I worked on a series of five organic chemistry lab tutorials that teach students how to perform standard lab techniques. These videos were a challenge because Josh and I have never taken a chemistry course before, and the videos were pretty complex and mixed several elements such as voice over, 3D animation, and close shots in a small environment. The videos have been a hit, and received news coverage from several sources.

News Articles

http://tinyurl.com/cnnarticlescitutorials

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-12-03-science-nice-sites_N.htm

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/12-07sorgovideoSS-.html

All of the videos can be found on professor Haim Weizman's website

http://chem-courses.ucsd.edu/CoursePages/Uglabs/143A_Weizman/Lab%20manual.html

2D: Animation: Motion Graphics: Movie Trailer: Titles

The last project for my After Effects class was to create a film trailer and make our own custom titling. All of the titling is hand animated and in a style that fits the memory erasing theme of the movie. This one took quite awhile since I had to edit clips of the movie into an entertaining trailer, and pay attention to subtle title themes.

Video: Production: Editing: Faces

A short Film by Me and Jonathan Na. We took two screen tests and dubbed a vocal track over it consisting of various events in our subject's lives. My subject was Jim Hornung, a local artist and friend, and Jonathan's subject was Karie Ko, one of his friends.

Video: Production: Editing: The Loss Of Family

Part 1

Part 2

This is a short documentary that me and my friend Jonathan Na Created for out Vis 180a class. My mom is the main character, and tells the story about when my grandfather was murdered by my cousin. This was one of the professor's favorite student produced videos, because of the professionalism and style.

Video: Production: Editing: Emergency Evacuation

A video Jonathan Na and I (Alex Hansen) made for our boss Raymond Wampler to show how to properly escape from a bus when the front door is blocked and there is a possibility of a fire. This project was produced relatively quickly, with a small budget, and with our fellow shuttle drivers (myself included) as the actors. Eventually, the video was shown at a safety convention and garnered a lot of attention from the show goers.

Video: Editing: Frontera Dreams (HD Available)

Part 1

Part 2

Project 1 for Vis 180B Frontera Dreams. Everyone in class was assigned a section of the Novel "Frontera Dreams" and we had to create a narrative in any style we wanted. Our group received Chapters 4, 5, and 6, and we decided to do a more classical style narrative. If you enjoyed this, try a youtube search for the projects made by the other groups.

Video: Editing: Motion Graphics: Chroma Key: Channel 14 News

This was the final project for my studio video class. I was responsible for editing, all of the motion graphics, and the chroma key effects. We didn't have the best lighting, but it still turned out pretty good. The plot is that the world continuously gets worse until zombies take over at the very end.

Programming: Electronics: Arduino: They're Here

Here is a link to my project blog for my Vis 147B (Electronics Programming for the Arts) class. This project uses an arduino board and a GPS transmitter to locate "spirits" on campus (and any other locations I want to program in).

http://alexvis147b.blogspot.com/