Final and Reflections

The final went much more smoothly than the midterm did (which has magically reappeared in the folder, much to my surprise). I started with a couple key scenes and added more until I ended up with a 25 second commercial.  More Maya work went into than I previously expected, mostly because it wouldn't cooperate with rendering every time. I'm pretty happy with how the masks in the TV set and DS came out. The PC is a little wobbly so I opted to use that as the last scene and have the title zoom over it as a sort of distraction. The sound is probably my least favorite part because I'm limited to sub-par equipment and it can pick up white noise in the best conditions.

The wobbling PC scene and my shameless distraction

I did most of the special effects (particles, masking, color correction, some of the motion graphics) in Combustion and put it together with transitions in After Effects. The audio was recorded in Audacity. The text effects were done in Illustrator and Photoshop.

The final product...