Absence and Dreams

Clip from Waking Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYTgTxSoITY

Dali certainly makes me think of dreams...

Portal 2 Vid

Here here here! After many hours of blood and tears...sometimes tears of blood I've finished my portal video. I'm not really happy with it because I had to scrap my original narrative idea due to lack of time, money, and appropriate resources. Switching ideas really stunted this projects progress for a week or two. In this time I was able to bang out some beginning tests, but they were a bit too simple and didn't help me actually figure out what my main problems would be with the piece. Besides the narrative, I wasn't too happy with the match moving, portal look, and masking for the portals. It just gave the whole thing a very unbelievable feel...all of the little bits ended up taking much longer then i though too, so I had to even cut back some of my few ideas. All in all I did learn a bunch about composite nodes and other workings in blender and motion. I would really like to figure out a better process for masking the portals so they look more believable when someone or thing is entering or exiting a portal...
Any way, here it is...enough of my blabbering!

Portal Vid from Brad Fish on Vimeo.