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

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: 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: 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.

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.