Category Archives: web video

rockstar cookies

https://wordpress.com/post/mattkprovideo.com/3885

 

2D Cartoon animation made in flash and after effects

Merry Christmas from Pro Defense Pest Control

 

Merry Christmas from Pro Defense Pest Control
https://www.prodefensepestcontrol.com/

prodefensepestcontrol@gmail.com (210) 233-9462

 

Made in Adobe Animate (Flash) and Adobe After Effects.

 

mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/21/merry-christmas-from-pro-defense-pest-control/

 

BlackMagic Color Grade

https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/14/blackmagic-color-grade/

For a recent wedding shoot I had a freelancer use a Black Magic  camera. I have heard very good things about that camera, how the footage looks just like 35mm motion picture film!  I was very excited. And I was a bit nervous how that footage would mix in when edited in with footage with my other cameras.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com

It was so much smaller than I thought it would be.

What I saw in the viewfinder screen concerned me, everything was a dull desaturated greenish grey.  The camera operator told me to relax, that all blackmagic footage looks like that until color graded in Davinci Resolve.

Well I don’t have Davinci Resolve. I ran the footage through Adobe After Effects and added an adjustment layer with AUTO COLOR and a lot of vibrancy came back into the image.

Then I added “Brightness and Contrast”. Lowering the Brightness and increasing the Contrast helped even more.

It still didn’t look right.

I added a third adjust layer and used HUE AND SATURATION and increased the saturation of the reds and blues and it started to look like the other cameras.

I set it to render then read THIS article:

http://www.creativebloq.com/audiovisual/master-colour-correction-and-grading-after-effects-10134701

 

It says I should have used  Effects>Synthetic Aperture.

Hmm I will have to try that on the next shots. So far I am not that impressed.  It seems just like my video footage, not this marvelous film look I was expecting. Then again it is most likely the problem is my limited experience with color grading footage from the BlackMagic, and not the camera itself.

 

https://www.theknot.com/us/hellen-rivera-and-ruben-ramirez-nov-2017-713f54af-e37b-4754-8ef7-3675e3cf9125

Hellen and Ruben

November 25, 2017 • Cedar Park, TX

 

Fireplace Cartoon, Adobe Flash

 

Fireplace Cartoon, Adobe Flash

mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/11/fireplace-cartoon-adobe-flash/

 

2D cartoon animation of a christmas fireplace with a christmas tree, christmas stockings, mantle and christmas wreath. Made in adobe animate (Flash).

Audioscar War Zone Lyrics

“War zone”by the band “audio scar

https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/11/audioscar-war-zone-lyrics/

Lyrics and Music Copyright 2018 Audioscar.

Now we can try to burn the war at stake or we could

let this revolution lead us astray

they only advertise what they want us to be subjectively

To kill you originality- utilize the information the gov don’t want us to know

look at the mass media everything it controls.

Let alone die hard trying or go home.

These hidden fallacies got us stuck in a war zone,
but its only
you alone
me alone

Get ready to start this war again
Until our fear comes to an end.

Born to lose, but we will die to win

Get ready to bring this war to end

When we fall we will rise again

Born to lose, but we will die to win

Just a product born into the system

manufactured and ship out from an asylum
to profit our behavior

They wanna give us freedom but they slaves you and me

manipulated by the same man who set you free.

I break false regulations and laws and
break free and cause violation
end a revelation, don’t!

Let the mass media conceal who you are so

Die a legend die a star

be true to who you are cause its only

you alone
me alone

Get ready to start this war again

until our fear comes to an end

Born to lose, but we will die to win

Get ready to bring this war to end

When we fall we will rise again

Born to lose, but we will die to win

 

Will we die?

or give into the screams of war and terror

I know you’re strong so just hold one

hold on to your will
and let this war rage on!

 

Best Star Wars Fan Films

Best Star Wars Fan films 

TROOPS! The first and greatest! A mash up ( before that word was in use) of the Tv Show COPS and  the first Star Wars Movie:

directed by Kevin Rubio

 

REBEL SCUM

http://www.bloodbrothercinema.com

https://www.inverse.com/article/10711-star-wars-fan-film-rebel-scum-is-too-good-to-exist

 

DARTH MAUL

 

Speedrun: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Ep #3)

 

Star Wars The Lesser Evil

 

Star Wars Liberation

 

HardWare Wars!

Did I say Troops was the first and best Star Wars Fan Film?  How could I forget this Erne Fosselius shot on film parody from the late 70s?

 

TIE FIGHTER

 

Merry Christmas from Artex Funding

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.