Developing That Unique Character

After my test shot's I decided to draw some illustrative artwork that would reflect on what I wanted the "villain" in my project to look like, in the end I went with number four, as it's a simpler costume, and it looks like a darker form of "Agent Smith".

Teleportation Test 2

Teleportation Test 1

My fight sequence comines two different unique elements, one of them is the electricity whip, the other is the power of teleportation.

In this fight scene both characters will use these powers until one of them prevails. Here is a test shot of a "Teleportation" technique I have created.

Sabre Test 1

Overall I think this looks pretty decent as a first attempt, for a four second clip it sure took a hell of a long time to animate. Frame by frame in Flash I would draw around my rope and pick out the brown markers as identifiers to help me when I could barely see the rope at all. I then exported that out as a PNG sequence and overlaid it onto my original video in After Effects. Then the fun part began of adding glows, blurs, mesh warps, and keyframes…. A HELL OF A LOT OF THEM.

For my research essay I intend to write about “The Dark Knight” as it is a favorite film of mine. The film luckily has millions of resources for the development processes of the film scattered across the Internet, and is talked about thoroughly in the Blu-Ray special Features.

Maybe the 1500 word count is too short?

Conductivity State: 0

I recently purchased two skipping ropes off eBay with the intention of filming some test shots for our developmental movie clip. When testing them I realised that because they were of a black colour when shooting these test shots on a Nikon 3100, which shoots at 24fps, it’s very hard in the editing process to pick up frame-by-frame where the rope is.

I needed to set some markers to help me identify in the scene where the rope was….

Here's "Mark 1" I guess.

Now it was time to test.

Conducting Electricity

Again by looking at my mood boards and trying to gain inspiration, I look at the picture of Whiplash from the Marvel universe, and most recently “Iron Man 2” and wonder how easy it would be to achieve an effect like the “electricity” whips.

Here are some video tutorials I have found that helped me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrFQmdrQw-U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_KoEG1jV4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAe5GModKy4

http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/execute-an-electrifying-light-whip-ae-premium/

Yes a few of the tutorials are “Lightsabre “ tutorials, though the effects can basically be manipulated to create a whip.

*I HOPE*