25) BEAR SUIT, MOTHERFUCKER!

Me + Bear + Shower Scene = BONAR CITY

24) Iowa State Funhouse

Just tonguein'.

23) Y'ARRR: The Mike Leach Story

Bandana? Check.
Sword? Check.
Hook? Check.
Earring? Check.
YARRR? Check and mate-y.

Edit: Had to delete the previous version. Feexed.

22) Tour of Kansas State

21) Mike Gundy Interview for AggieReport.com

20) Water Ripple

19) Blood Bursts

I remade another clip from Die Hard and added more blood splattering effects. Meh. They don't show up so well on youtube because of the converted frame-rate, so a lot of the frames got cut out. At least the smoke coming out of the gun turned out really well.

18) Headshot in 3...2...1...

Here I added a blood burst effect to a shot from our Die Hard movie. Don't blink or you'll miss it.

17) Matrix Font

The hard parts with this one were:
A) Finding that damn matrix font, which is here if you want it,
B) Figuring out how to randomize the text over time. For future reference, it's Animate> Character Value.
C) I know there has to be a way to create multiple lines of text without having to create each layer by hand, just haven't figured it out yet.

16) Muzzle Fire

I took a clip from our Die Hard movie that we made and added muzzle fire to the guns. Too bad it's so short. Maybe I'll make a gif of this.

15) Warp

14) Moar Particlez

More fun with particle effects. Giggity.

13) Particle Man, Particle Man...

12) Buggin' Out

Ma-att Daa-mon.

Now I didn't plan on using Matt Damon for this test. I went to youtube to look for footage of someone's face, preferably a celebrity, and this clip of Matt Damon was on the youtube main page and here we are. If you want to see the whole clip, it's right nyah. He's ripping Sarah Palin and is very pleased with himself as he does so.

Anyway, I learned this "bug under skin" effect from a tutorial on this site I found yesterday called VideoCopilot.net.

Maaa-att Daaa-mon!

11) Making it Rain

I make it rain (I make it rain)
I make it rain on them hoes I make it rain,(I make It rain)
I make it rain on them hoes I make it rain,(I make it rain)
I make it rain on them hoes I make it rain(I make it rain)
I make it rain on them hoes

10) TeeVee

Here I took an old video I shot on my digital camera and used AE to look like an old tv. Most of the effects and techniques are the same as the ones I used to make Sith Lord McCain.

Here's the original:


I used a grid to make the horizontal lines, and large falling white blur is just a mask that's been feathered. I also like the white blur in the upper left corner. I think it's effective.

9) ...

No words...

Should...have sent...a poet...

8) Moar Purty Lites

Here is yet another logo I made for Mascot Wedding.

I love the way it turned out. It looks like something they would come across in Star Trek.

This would not have been possible without the 3D Stroke, and CC Glow plug-ins.

7) Tiger Woods = Predator

Here is another green screen video I made using a vid of Tiger Woods I got off of youtube. I did the Predator-effect by following this tute, and I fine-tuned my green screen removal techniques by using this tute on creating junk mattes. Totes tutes.

6) Purty Lites

Here I made another logo for Mascot Wedding using this tute. This one took a while to make. A ton of effects are involved and even some (gasp!) expressions!

loopOut(type="cycle")

The hell does that mean?? Ugh, I hate programming languages. But I guess they are...useful. Sigh.

I'm really happy with how this turned out, especially with the glow on the ground. And yes, this is intended to look like those Sprint commercials.

I'd like to do this again in the future, but over video instead of a still image. Or maybe a series of still images.