DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING | FINAL PROJECT

22/06/18 - 06/07/18 | Week 13 - Week 14
Yeoh Xiao Shi (0331577)
Digital Photography & Imaging
Final Project - Surrealistic Parallax

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INSTRUCTIONS

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FINAL PROJECT

Week 14 
(29/06/18)

This week, we were given a brief for our final project. Basically, we were required to come out with a surrealistic gif by editing as well as manipulating the image at Adobe Photoshop and animate it at After Effects later on. The images used can be either stock images or our own photographs but they must have a visual or conceptual theme. To start this project, I searched some reference images and made a mood board for it. Once I gathered the reference images, I started to think for the composition as we were allow to recreate a new composition for our final.

Fig.1.1: Mood board.

Fig.1.2: Reference image used.

Week 15

(06/07/18)

After thinking for the composition and theme, I gathered all the images that I could use from Google, Pixabay and Pexels. Then, I began to recreate the composition for this project in photoshop.

Fig.2.1: Image used.

Fig.2.2: Imaged used.

Fig.2.3: Recreate the composition at Photoshop.

Fig.2.4: Process. 

Fig.2.5: Process.

Fig.2.6: Process.

Fig.2.7: Process.

Fig.2.8: Process. 

Fig.2.9: Process.

Fig.2.10: Screenshot of the final outcome with layer panels.

Fig.2.11: Progress at Adobe Photoshop. (GIF)

Fig.2.12: Final Outcome of the recreation.

Week 16

(09/07/18)

This week will be the deadline for our final project.  I continue my work by importing the photoshop file at after effects to add subtle movements for it. In this project, Adobe After Effects is considere the biggest challenge for me as I'm still not that familiar with it. To overcome the problems I faced, I watched some tutorials on YouTube and learned some new techniques on after effects. The figures below have showed my progress on this project.

Fig.3.1: Import the photoshop file at After Effects.

Fig.3.2: Photoshop layers at After Effects.

Fig.3.3: Process at After Effects for animation.

Fig.3.4; Process of making the stars twinkle. (Adjust the curve)

Fig.3.5: Process of making the stars twinkle. (Using turbulent noise)

Fig.3.6: Process of making the stars twinkle. (Adjust turbulent noise)

Fig.3.7: Process of animating the cloud on the moon. 

Fig.3.8: Process of animating the cloud at the bottom.

Fig.3.9: Process of animating the lamp light.

Fig.3.10: Process of animating the book.

Fig.3.11: Process of animating the bushes.

Fig.3.12: Outcome for the animation (video).

Once I done with that, I add the final animation to render queue and save it as Jpeg sequence. After that, heading to photoshop and set the workspace to motion. To import the file that I saved in after effects previously, I import it as video layers and photoshop have already puts the file in animation. Lastly, I went to file, export and save for web legacy to proceed with saving the GIF.

Fig.3.13: Export the animation as Jpeg sequence and render it.

Fig.3.14: Open photoshop and change the workspace to motion.

Fig.3.15: Import the animation done in after effects as video layers at Photoshop.

Fig.3.16: Process of exporting the GIF.

Fig.3.17: Exporting GIF.

Fig.3.18: Final outcome for the animation (GIF).

Here is the link to the compilation of the process for final project below :

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fuLPyCIn6-m46eygypNwpv0uYcSHer3ernqnU2c_beY/edit?usp=sharing