Jesse Davidge
Director/Producer at Blatant Studios in Vancouver, Canada
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Here’s the video for “New Sum” I directed for the band, “Hey Rosetta!”. Pretty intense 3 month project but thanks to everyone who helped out, it came together. I’ll be posting more behind the scenes images in the coming days, maybe even some “3D” tests.
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I recently did an interview with the good ladies over at “Made In 72 Hours” check it out and keep checking there blog out, lots of good stuff about art and fashion stuffs!
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Well there you have it, the video is done and in the can! It was a lot of hard work and late nights, but its now there for everyone to check out.
This last week I’ve just been finalizing colours and doing anything I can to give the animation an old-school style. Everything from adding vignettes, to edge blurs, blooms, film flickers, you name it, I used it.
I’ve always been concerned with the best way to encode these videos as well, but I’ve found that the messier your film is the less you notice the compression and artifacting. I’ve done 3D projects where everything is 1080p, and once its uploaded to the web, the quality suffers. But seeing this video on vimeo in 720p looks as good as the uncompressed version I have on my computer. Until the codecs get better, this is just the trade-off when doing videos for the web. Of course I probably notice this more because I stare at these projects for hours on end, I’m sure for everyone else they couldn’t tell the difference.
So thats all for now, I’ll continue this blog with my comic book updates, and for any future animated music videos I direct. So keep checking back, cause there’s lots more to come! -
So the whole video is now comped, it was a lot of work but I’m glad to be over that hump. Now the fun part is finessing all the shots and adding extra elements like animals, weather, etc.
The comping has become much easier, yet the render time to get the whole piece out is sitting at around 3 hours now, the price one pays for usying dynamic linking on your AE scenes. But the ability to sync all my scenes to my editing file has proven to be very beneficial, if you’ve ever been working on a project and noticed a mistake, you can now just open up AE and make the change which than is reflected in the edit, pretty crazy technology!
The one section I was always worried about was the ending, the moment where Franco is sinking and see’s the ghost of his wife needed to have impact, and I found that keeping the shot compositions simple has really helped that. Having a great song to work with doesn’t hurt either.
This is probably my last post before the final video goes up, I’m really excited to finish this project and find the next one, hopefully some other artists will like what I did here and want a video of there own.
