My final video project for my AE class!

Kinetic Typography Assignment from Karen C. on Vimeo.

This is the assignment I turned in yesterday for my last class. I have learned so much even though it was just one day a week.

Pineapple Ad

I put together a commercial for my husband's business team.  They are selling "Pineapple" products instead of "Apple".  They wanted it to look like the dancing ipod ads they had out a while back.  So here's what we came up with.  He turned it in this morning.  I had never used 3D layers before this and besides one little snag (which I did figure out)  I LOVE them!!  This is opening up a whole new After Effects world!  I hope you like it!

Scrabble Stop Motion

For fun this week put together this short stop motion clip!

Happy Birthday Dad!

This is a shout out to my Dad, (AKA "Grandpa" around here.) "Happy Birthday! I love you!"  



The kid in the movie is supposed to be patterned after my oldest.  Can you tell?

Video Mom

I'm taking a class once a week about Adobe After Effects.  I have been using it  somewhat in my video work, but I knew there was so much more that could be possible.  I have only had a few classes, but so far I have learned quite a bit. 

I didn't know that so much could be done with it in connection to Adobe Illustrator.  You can use After Effects to animate a lot of the stuff that you make in Illustrator.  As one of my projects I was working on animating a logo, so I have been practicing a lot with Illustrator.

I have been debating changing my blog name for a while and I figured this was a good enough time.  I actually have a confession.  The eggplant in the picture was from our garden this past summer.  For some reason or other we never even picked it.  It just sat out there and rotted.  So I guess you could say I am not very good at saving eggplants.

I am just trying out this banner for now.  It is subject to change in the near future as is the rest of my blog.   I'll try and keep you posted on any projects I come up with as I take this class.  I've already made a moving logo out of the same pictures I used in my banner, but as a tag for movies I make, which I use the name "Video by Karen".  I don't want to post it quite yet, because I think I'm going to adjust it some more first.

More Wedding Movies!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.  I have been pretty busy this last several weeks.  But, here is some of the stuff that I have been working on.  I hope you like it!

Movie Project

Here's a movie I put together of our trip last weekend to Boulder Cave.  I did the editing in Adobe Premier Pro CS5 and the effects in Adobe After Effects. 

Estate Sale Treasure!

We were all over the place yesterday.  One of our first stops was an estate sale in the Uptown in Richland where I found this little beauty.  It's an st 1000 Super 8 camera. 

Some of you may know that I am sort of a video hobbyist, however I have never even held one of these before.  Never the less, I am very intrigued by the whole idea of it.  I think it will be so cool to have a movie made on real film!  I have seen some work people have done  using them and I just think it is so neat.

I have been learning a lot about it since I bought it.  There are still some places that you can order film online and send it in to get developed.  It's going to cost a little money to do, but I really want to at least try it out.  I am really excited about this.