Alex's Wonders

 Instructions Create a Title/credits sequence for your favorite movie. Make sure to include audio. The final video should be 45-60 seconds long. The resolution should be 1920 x 1080. FPS - 30  Render using h.264 or h.265 to create a high-quality .mp4.   Content   This week I worked on something different—building a title sequence for a made-up movie I created called Colorado . This title sequence came to me after watching a couple of nature documentary movies, and I wanted to create a special scene just like some of those that I have watched. The vibe I had in mind was quiet and cinematic—wide open spaces, maybe a bit of mystery, and a lot of stillness. I used simple motion graphics, subtle blurs, and some textured overlays to give it that gritty, grounded feel. Finding the right font and timing the title to land with the music took the most time, but once it clicked, it really pulled the whole thing togethe...

  Welcome back y’all! To the weekly creativity blog! This week’s been messy in the best kind of way lots of projects, late-night doodling, and a bunch of random junk I probably should’ve thrown away by now, Because guess what? That “junk” turned into one of my favorite creativity exercises this whole month . So here’s the vibe: take regular, everyday stuff—but instead of tossing it or using it how you're supposed to, turn it into something totally new, totally ridiculous and try to see if we can try and repurpose those "junk" items into new and improved items.  Let me just give you some examples so you know what kind of chaos we’re working with: I turned a broken umbrella into a hanging fruit basket. Yup. Hung that bad boy upside down, slapped some bananas in it, and it’s now the most dramatic piece in my kitchen.An old sock ? Now a sunglasses pouch. Looks like it hasn’t seen daylight in years, but hey, it keeps my lenses smudge-free and mysterious. I had a whisk s...

   Instructions This is all great information, and ideally you will watch it all, however, what I'd like you to do is pay special attention to the sections on: The Art of Story Telling, The Art of Lighting, Color Science, Virtual Cameras, and Patterns. List 10 things that you learned from all of these chapters. What I learned:    One of the first that I learned about watching Pixar in a box is getting to see how everything is really made and how the frame to frame animation was made, and seeing the actual process of the films and how even before the technology we have now.  The math that goes into the making of these animations is astronomically nowhere where I thought it would be, in terms of these animations I knew there was SOME math, but at much geometry, physics, and algebra that goes into the animations and the problem solving and equations that are used.  The story telling fundamentals that are used in Pixar's animations are really interesting. The w...

  Welcome back y’all! To the weekly creativity blog! We’re back at it again with another cool entry, and like always, I’ve got something fun and weird to talk about today. This week’s been a mix of chaos and chill, but even with all the running around, I still found time to sit down and make something that really got my brain going. Usually I’m doing these exercises with my siblings or some close friends ,But with some research I found a pretty cool concept for an exercise that I found online. And with my research I came to a concept that I pretty much liked and would be calling it the “Double Duty Challenge.”  The whole idea is to  create one object that serves two totally different purposes. That’s it. But trust me, it’s not as easy as it sounds. You gotta stretch your imagination just enough to make something that could actually exist, but still sounds wild enough to turn heads. Think of stuff like: A hoodie that doubles as a backpack A spoon that works as a min...

              Welcome back y'all! To my weekly Creativity Exercise blog! This week's blog starts us off with a new month and a new class full of possibilities. With everything to learn about Adobe's After Effects, dont get me wrong.. i'm very excited, but also a little scared I hope I can get through this month with not roadblocks, but we may never know until we move forward right?      This week's blog is a recap of some of the exercise we actually did in class, and I would like to share some of my answer to said exercises we did in class. And of course to start us off, let's get into the first exercise that was presented to us. That being called "medieval McDonald toys" this exercise to start us off was a little weird at first glance, but like all creativity exercises we just need to dive into it to find out how weird it really is, and without further-a-do lets get into the answers.   "Mini Crown" "Fake bag of gold"  "mi...

              Welcome back y’all! To the weekly creativity blog! Another week, another wild ride—but no matter how busy life gets, I’m always down to share some of the cool creative stuff I’ve been cooking up with y’all. Lately, things have been moving fast, but I found a little pocket of time to work on something that I’m really excited about and I had to talk about it here. Now usually, as y’all know, I like to do my exercises with family or friends—makes it more fun, more chaotic, and honestly just more alive. But every now and then, I get these quiet moments where it’s just me, my ideas, and some free time. .      I basically took a clean photo and started playing with blur on everything except the main focal point. Using Photoshop, I messed around with masking tools and layer tricks to isolate my subject, and then just blurred the heck out of the rest. Not in a harsh way—more like a soft directional blur that draws your eyes ...