Solair Media

Well ... irritating! When did blogger start resizing the images you upload? Needless to say that is what has happened to the image for this post. maybe it's a dimensions limit. Anyway, my apologies to anyone viewing this for the tininess of the images. I had combined them thinking that that would make for easier viewing, and now they're all too small. Anyway...

Thought I should finally show what happened with the project I was doing for a friend. Well, the short of it is that there was a bit of waffling, I wasn't sure if they were still going through with it, then all of a sudden they wanted it yesterday. So, these images are from what I was able to get together for him in a very short period of time, probably 8 to 10 hrs spread over a week. I was having trouble figuring out how to put some of the stuff together in 3D, so, given the urgency I drastically changed the plan and put this together instead. It meant needing to relearn what little I had once known about After Effects, plus learning a number of new things about it on the fly. I've included a link to a test render that I did. This is basically the end result, except that I ended up removing the "Illuminating Your Imagination" slogan, and the stars in the Background, and after delivering the product I made a shorter version that I didn't get around to giving to them. I'll put that up later, and get it to them later. Oh yeah, the sun was rendered in XSI using a customizable lens shader. Everything else was done in After Effects and Photoshop.

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EDIT: My website expired and I haven't set up a new one, so for now this video is no longer available.