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About mattkprovideo

Austin/San Antonio, Texas based digital film maker, animator and motion graphics editor. http://youtu.be/hnApJDsCw28 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3021382/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Merry Christmas from Artex Funding

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Merry Christmas from Artex Funding

mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/29/christmas-artex/

 

Drawn in Adobe Flash ( Adobe Animate) then exported as a “.swf” file,

It was a little bigger than 1920 by 1080 so I brought the flash  “.swf” file into Adobe After Effects. I scaled it down about 80 %.  Then I added the website url and phone number, luckily Adobe After Effects had the same font installed as I used in Flash.

I felt the white lettering didn’t stand out enough from the bright white background. So even though it was drawn line art already, I added an adjustment layer with the Stylize > Cartoon filter over everything.  It gave the lines a greater thickness.

Then I added another adjustment layer with the ” CC Snowfall” effect on it. White snowflakes against a white background?  I put the snow effect layer UNDER the cartoon layer- this giving the snowflakes a thin outline.

https://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Adding-snow-using-CC-Snow/104216/108662-4.html

I rendered it all as a  Quicktime H.264  “.mov ” so it could be uploaded easily to Youtube.

 

Then I shared it via Twitter and Google Plus.

 

This is a “Christmas Card”  that ArTex Funding can send out to their clients.

 

 

Clock Face Animation Test 1

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https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/22/clock-1/

Clock face animation, made in Adobe Flash (Adobe Animate) and composited in After Effects

 

I created this animation in Adobe Flash ( Adobe Animate). The images are on 4 seperate layers, exported seperarely, then composited in 3D layers in After Effects.

The first one has the camera shaking, ( but shaking too much). The shake was created with Wiggler.  The 2nd version has no layered effects.  The 3rd is the camera pointed really close to the numbers, but the distance between the background and the numbers.

 

ArTex Funding SLAM DUNK

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mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/22/artex-funding-slam-dunk/

ArTex Funding SLAM DUNK

http://www.artexfunding.com/

2D cartoon animation  made mainly in Adobe Flash ( Animate ) with some Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.

Music from :

Piano Rock Instrumental by Hyde – Free Instrumentals https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AlAxo66T11w ––– • Contact the artist: davidrhyde1@gmail.com https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic

Endor shooting location.

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RETURN OF THE JEDI Endor forest speeder bike chase scene  shooting location.

mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/21/3692/

 

Owen Cheatham Redwood Grove in Northern California

 

I am a little confused, I thought I read somewhere that the Endor scenes were shot in a part of the forest that was “due to be clear cut anyway”.  And yet there it all still is.

I am assuming that trail was blazed by Star Wars fans wanting a picture by the locations, but actually that trail is there in the 1983 film. You’ve got to look real quick but its there.

If they made this film today there would be using newer, more advanced “steadi cams”  or drones or…. ( yukk!) CGI.  One idea I always had was the lay many MILES of dolly track with a real practical speeder bike on it and just film it.