Final Project 2: Leilah w/Rough Sound Design

I forgot to put this up last night. I was so tired, heh heh. Here is the project with sound, though still no music (which I now definitely want to add). The soun design is very rough because I admittedly did it pretty quickly. The star has no sound effect, which it should and is one of the many things I will fix as soon as final exam season is over. I hope you enjoy!

~Becca

Final Project: Leilah

Here's my final project. Yes, it has no sound. It was originally meant to be silent, but now I'm thinking it should have sound. I will have to go in and add it from Logic Pro. Anyway, I named it "Leilah" after the girl, which is Arabic for "born in the night." I thought it was pretty.

This project was so much fun to work on, and it took a LONG time. I really wanted to make something pretty to look at, and I think I succeeded (without sounding cocky), though there are many flaws in it as well. I'm not used to editing in After Effects, and I'm not too happy with the length of some of the scenes, but I can always go back to the original files and tweak it to my liking later on. For the sake of getting this thing turned in, here you go!

I have learned so much because of this project. I can't believe at the start of the semester I didn't know anything about After Effects. I may not be a pro yet, but I think I have come a long way. This class has been a blast! Thanks, Ben!!

~Becca

Issues with the Puppet Tool

Problem #1:


I don't know what's going on, but every time I use the puppet tool on the girl's eyebrows, then move the eyebrows up and and down, that stupid little outline shows up. The thing is, that outline is NOT THERE. I have "disappeared" all of the other layers looking for what could be overlapping the eyebrows, but there isn't anything there. And this always seems to happen when I use the puppet tool on the eyebrows, then try to move them. It's like there's an invisible layer somewhere that I can't delete.

For this clip it's a bit difficult to catch, but towards the end her eyebrows go up and then to the side as the camera pans down, as if she was looking worried as she looked down. Her eyebrows were not supposed to shift to the side. They were supposed to hold position. Hmm.

Problem #2:



Same problem here. You can really see that outline at the beginning. See how it disappears if I move the eyebrows down?

At first, with Problem #1, I thought that there was an issue because I was using the puppet tool in 3D space with a camera. However, in Problem #2 I didn't use 3D space or a camera or anything. Yet if I delete the puppet pins and just rotate the eyebrows, it's fine. So there is definitely something wrong with the puppet tool. Have any ideas, Ben? Sorry for the trouble!

~Becca