Cloud testing

In this test i was using the camera and although i only have one layor of clouds it is started to become alot better! I just need to add more layors of clouds maybe to thicken it out and have them moving at different speeds.

Clouds

I had been trying for hours to make my clouds look decent then all of a sudden Matt Geeling walked through the door! My Knight in shining armor!!!! He showed me how to set up a camera in after effects to create more of a 3D approach. With this example i was messing about with the perspective and making things fly out of the camera to look as if you were falling through them! This is not a great example as all the clouds come towards you and they shouldn't! But it was my first attempt so bare with me!

Clouds

Just wanted to add this to my blog because this is what my clouds looked like before i added the camera! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Awfull!

Looking at more clouds

To be honest i wanted a sky divers point of view to show me what the clouds would be like as they were falling! but i found it fairly hard to find a decent quality video ... however i did talk to Rick about it and we figure out that if you were falling the clouds in the forground would be moving alot faster than the ones in the background so i think tried to animate this in After Effects!

Sky Diving ... Clouds ... Falling

After my poor attept of stop motion i thought it would be better have another good look at the movement of clouds and try and study them carefully to hopefully give be a better chance of creating a more successful animation!

Stop motion testing

This was our first test when it came to animating the clouds! We wanted to keep the same style of cloud the illustrators used in their final peice ... bascially we took a few photos of cotton wool then inverted them on photoshop! However this test was created before Craig and I realised the technique the illustrators had used. So for this i Craig created a cloud shape from cotton wool and after a couple of minutes staring at it i wondered what it would look like if we just photocopied it.
So i used a few copies of the cloud and tried stop motion with them! To be honest it didn't turn out very well so i need to find another more successful way to animate them!

Looking at Clouds