Assignment 2 Animated Photoshop Brushes

For my second ever blog post (well, it is assignment #2) I am sharing a short video that illustrates Animated Photoshop Brushes on a photo that I took in 2014.

I was trying to create a short little video that looked 'interesting' or 'entertaining'. (Yea, I know, how entertaining can a video be in 10 seconds?) When looking through my photos to pick one for this process I stumbled upon the one in the video. In my mind it would be fun to animate the figures with various clothing and styles. In my mind everything always looks better then it does in reality -- always.

Technically I used Photoshop (as mentioned in the title of the post) and brought in a variety of brushes to create the effects. From Photoshop the photo was taken to Adobe Flash for masking. I had fun playing with the masking and unmasking of the brushes in Flash. However, as it is one of the first times I've ever used Flash I did find myself making some mistakes and getting myself into situations in which I had to step back a lot of steps and try again. From Flash the production went to After Effects. I will admit in AE I was lost. I finally figured out how to de-saturate the video for a bit and let it come back to full saturation. I was happy with the results. . . but, when I took the creation into Premiere Pro I found that my effect did not transfer over (sad face here). So, I used Prem. Pro to de-saturate, or rather turn down the opacity - thus fulfilling the assignment requirement of some type of effect. I think this project took me longer than I expected it would, and overall I don't love it, but I don't hate it either.

Remember, this is the first assignment of the class - other than creating the blog (which, obviously I did) and I should get better as we go. That is the goal.