I’ve been working on some visual elements for Bombs Into You’s stage show.. the idea is that we would project some video on/behind us as we play and have a different video sequence for each song. We haven’t figured out how to sync up the video with our backing electronic tracks yet, but I at least wanted to get a start on the video part of it.

I put all these together in After Effects. It’s actually a good way to help me learn how to use the program since I’m basically just toying around with effects and bits of footage.

I filmed the bug on a cruise ship going down the coast of Mexico. The thermometer is from the front of my house and the blinky lettering was warning of road construction down the street from me. The fence and wires footage comes from a substation also near my house.

I am starting to experiment with ideas for music videos for my band Bombs Into You. I shot this footage in my basement and then played with it in After Effects and Premiere. I was thinking of using some of the effects for our new track My Machine along with a story sequence.

Before producing that FLV version I rendered out an mp4 version and the results were.. twitchy. I don’t know why or how Premiere rendered it like that, but I really like the effect!

My band is working on a new EP that will come out before the end of the year. I’m hoping to have a music video or two for us done sometime around then. I’ll keep you posted.

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So this is the beginning of what could be a long string of absurdist animations.. White of Eye presents Storytime Adventures!

Credits

Right Crab: Justin Pacuska

Left Crab: Gage Choat

Opening Theme:
“Fanfare for Brass Quintet” by WBQ

Sound Effects:
www.soundsnap.com
www.flashkit.com/soundfx/

So here it is, whiteofeye.com version 1.0! I have plenty of upgrades and tweaks I want to do, but what I have up now will serve just fine as a starting point. I’ll integrate the improvements as I go.

The purpose of the site is to showcase my video/animation pieces, so my focus in the upcoming weeks will be actually producing those pieces.. website stuff will be taking a back seat.

That being said, isn’t that header cool? It took me a few days to put that together.. I’m pretty happy with it. I think I’m going to make an animini (a 220×165 Flash animation featured in the side bar) with the artwork. I was kind of sad that I had to cover up the mountains and trees with the WOE logo text so that’ll give you a chance to see those better.

Other than the header, the site came together relatively easily. The rest of the page design was pretty basic and marking that up for HTML was easy enough. Integrating into Wordpress was pretty smooth. It’s certainly a more straightforward process than integrating a site into Joomla! CMS, which I’ve done a few times before. Of course, I’ve kept things pretty basic so that helped.. we’ll see what I think of Wordpress when I want to start doing fancier things with the site.

I’m hosting this site with Dreamhost and I have to give them props for their one-click installs. Seriously, all I had to do was say ‘I want to install Wordpress on my site,’ then input just a few options, and BAM! installed and running! Totally easy. I had a trickier time getting an identical Wordpress installation running on my Mac Pro webserver.. but mostly because I had to do a MySQL install. It wasn’t too painful, though, and now I’ve got a development environment that I can use to test website changes before I put them on the live site.

So yeah, enjoy the site and post some comments to let me know what you think!