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Round Rock Honey “BLANCHE”

https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/11/round-rock-honey-blanche/

“Blanche” extols the virtues of Round Rock Honey and its new online store.

Shot in Round Rock, Texas and starring the fabulous singer/actress Jo Lyons as “Blanche Dubois”.

Produced and Directed by Matt Kordelski.

Script written by Jo Lyons.

“Hello beautiful people if you’re wondering why my beehive is all askew

Well I’ve been busier than a little bee.

Doing what?
Packing up this Round Rock honey and sending it to my friends all over the
country.

Why? Because they love it!

Frankly my dear I’m exhausted!

But I heard some wonderful news today.

Do you know that Round Rock honey has one of those little
online gadgets? a dot-com!

Round Rock honey dot com.

You can open up your computer, 

type in:  Round Rock honey dot com

And you can send Round Rock honey to yourself or your friends all over the country it’s as easy as that.
I’m so excited and now Blanche can getback to doing what she does best
drinking tea on the veranda.

Sweetened by Round Rock honey of course”

Post Production was done at mattkprovideo studios in Austin, Texas.

Round Rock Honey is justly proud of it’s high quality, naturally grown and delicious Honey products.

I am so happy to be a part of letting folks know about this great product.

Shot with a Canon DSLR on a slider, and edited with Adobe Premiere.  I added the “Lumetri” effect to make the footage seem more cinematic.

The logo animation was created in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.

I didn’t design the Round Rock Honey Logo. I traced it in Adobe Photoshop.

( How to wrap text tutorial )

I drew the honey combs using the Adobe Photoshop Pen Tool. I colored it with the paint bucket tool.

The honeycomb image was imported as a Photoshop layer into Adobe After Effects.

( Import>  Name> Import as layered sequence)

The layer was made into a “3D Space” image. Then the image was duplicated and “nudged up” one line. ( The layer was selected then the keyboard UP arrow was tapped once) Then this was repeated 150 times. ( Copy the 3D  layer, select it and move it up one line. Repeat).

The honey jar image was added and made a 3D layer.

It was duplicated and at 8 seconds in the under layer darkens and has RADIAL blur added. Then a third copy occurs above and has the Stylize / GLOW effect applied to it.  An elliptical mask moves over it.

https://roundrockhoney.com/

Round Rock Honey Store

Jo Lyons Design

https://www.facebook.com/JoEllenandtheBoxofChocolates/

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premiere

mattkprovideo studios

The music soundtrack is from “Free Youtube Music”

Outside by Ikson https://www.soundcloud.com/ikson

Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/6LDuAiLrmMs –––

• Contact the artist: iksonmusic@gmail.com

https://iksonmusic.wordpress.com/

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https://open.spotify.com/artist/0oaw4…

https://twitter.com/Iksonofficial

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https://www.facebook.com/iksonmusic/

Donate: https://www.paypal.me/ikson

https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/11/round-rock-honey-blanche/

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Christopher Robin (2018) Review

mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/08/5326/

I just saw the new Winnie the Pooh movie. Oops I mean “Christopher Robin”.

When I first saw the Trailer

I thought it was the Disney Corp trying to cash in on the critically acclaimed:

 

Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

And now that I’ve seen it…. I still kind of think that.

I enjoyed parts of it. Its technically amazing. HOW did they make those animals move? Puppetry? Advanced CGI? Or… most likely… a combination of all of them?

The characters were a clever hybrid of the original storyboard drawings and Disney cartoon models.

The real Christopher Robin:

Ewan McGregors a great actor, but this guy looks more the part:

The story is a bit remiscent of Spielbergs HOOK . The work a holic dad who cant find time to be with his family.

It also reminded me a bit of DREAM CHILD, TED, and the Harry Potters…

WHO was this movie for? Small children? Jaded Adults?

And THIS “Christopher Robin” has almost NO connection to what I know of the real one ( and I’m not even that much a Pooh buff).

If they can use the “magic tree” to teleport from London to the hundred Acre wood, why couldn’t they use it to transport back?

It has marvellous moments, but the ending was bit too much “Disney Ex Machina”

Artex KARATE

https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/07/artex-karate 

2D Animated commercial for ArTex Funding. Made in Adobe Flash( AKA Adobe Animate,) Adobe After Effects and Premiere.

Karate Animation.

Call ArTex Funding –  we are Alternative Business Lenders.

We fight off the Ninjas to get you the best loan for any financial condition of your business.

ArTex Funding has many different alternative working capital asset-based funding programs and are more flexible and creative than most financing sources…….

www.artexfunding.com

Austin, Texas  78738   Phone: (512) 261.0024

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate

https://www.adobe.com/aftereffects 

https://www.adobe.com /premiere

ArTex Funding Commercials

mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/04/artex-funding-commercials/

These are animated web commercials I made for ArTex Funding over the past two years.

 

This is the best one I did for them:

This took about 4 months to make. I used Adobe Flash (Animate), Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.

 

A simpler spot made in FLASH and AFTER EFFECTS:

Basketball Spot:

Windmills:

Funnel:

Archer Spot:

Karate Spot:

 

https://www.artexfunding.com/

Address:17009 Flint Rock Rd
Austin Texas  78738
Phone: 512.261.0024   Mobile: 512.750.5768

 

RED TAILS FX

mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/04/red-tails-fx/

 

 

I’m a little confused.

According to this video, every scene with a pilot in a plane was ALL CGI?

At  1.12  and 3.40, are those shots of real actors or pure  animation?

I would think it would be much more convincing to put a real actor in a mock up plane and “key” him into the CGI. Maybe the CGI person is there to react to the motion capture information gathered by shooting the real actors?

George Lucas was the producer not the director. Lucasfilm employee Anthony Hemingway was the actual director. It was in the media that after Hemingway finished the film, Lucas took over and re shoot many scenes. Was that because Hemingway was a bad director or that Lucas is hyper controlling? Seeing as how Lucas re tinkered with the Star Wars films, I’d blame Lucas with no slight against Hemingway.

As a Lucas production,  the plane scenes are all elaborate ILM created special effects and shot very “Star Wars -ey” ( yeah I know, the Star Wars dogfight scenes are known to be ” WW2 movies in space).

I may have to re watch RED TAILS again. My memories of it was the effects were good but the film itself was weak. I thought the HBO Tuskegee Airmen tele movie was lower budgeted but somehow a better over all watching experience.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tails

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485985/

 

https://www.ilm.com/

 

https://www.starwars.com/

 

https://www.lucasfilm.com/

 

 

Supermans Kyptonian rocket

mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/04/supermans-kyptonian-rocket/

Supermans Kyptonian rocket

 

A panel from an old Superman Comic photoshopped into layers and composited into motion graphics / animation. I animated the rocket blast in After Effects.

Effect>  Simulation>  CC Particle Systems >    and added blur to the lines.

https://www.deviantart.com/hairypolack/art/Superman-Color-Corrected-757732023?ga_submit_new=10%3A1533343754

Multiple separate layers were duplicated. I used lasso and pen tools to cut out the images.  I then used auto color, color balance and the paint bucket fill tool to make the image look new.

VHS Camcorder Animation

mattkprovideo.com/2018/07/31/vhs-camcorder-animation/

 

 

Traditional 2D Animation of a 1980s style VHS CamCorder and a VHS cassette tape, made in Adobe Flash / Adobe Animate.

This will be used in a video commercial explaining my wedding video prices.

Gary Larson’s Tales from the Far Side

Gary Larson’s Tales from the Far Side

 

When did they make this? How did they make this? WHY did they make this?

 

Its excellent but really weird!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson%27s_Tales_from_the_Far_Side

“An animated short film created in 1994 by Gary Larson, based on his The Far Side comic strip. It was first shown as a Halloween special on CBS-TV”

Produced by the guy who made Bambi meets Godzilla????

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv_Newland