Lexi Vay's Adventures with Visual Effects: 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Take On Recycling

Take On Recycling from Lexi Vay on Vimeo.

Our final project! Thanks to my group members Ryan, Macauley, Josh, Ashton, and John for making this project a pleasure to do and special thanks to Macauley for the shot breakdown (will be posted soon).

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Recycle PSA

For our PSA we went with Ryan's idea- a Recycling PSA featuring an adorable cottage cheese carton and his journey from the supermarket to his seeming demise.

The story begins with a cottage cheese carton at the supermarket, waiting to be taken home by someone. Finally, a girl picks him up off the shelf, puts him into her basket, and takes him home where he's eaten, washed and reused for multiple purposes. He's thrilled he gets to help out and be a part of her life, but one day he finds himself forsaken in the trash with her other plastic items. He's crestfallen at his fate, but what our cottage cheese friend doesn't realize that he was placed in a recycling bin!

Later at the supermarket, a consumer puts an orange juice into his basket, revealing the one behind it to be COTTAGE CHEESE MAN REINCARNATED! Yay recycling!!

Here's the awesome animatic Macauley put together.

And here's the model of the cottage cheese man I made and Josh rigged.

And here's his orange juice form, modeled by me and Machauley that I rigged.
(all he needed at that point were happy faces, haha.)

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Greenscreen Proj.

VFX Greenscreen Exercise Fall 2010 from Lexi Vay on Vimeo.

1UP!
I did the first and very last (after the breakdown) shots and modeled/rigged the Big Boo!

And thanks to my awesome group members Josh Holley and Macualey Johnson who made this project fun!

PSA Concept

Concept#1: Environment Protection PSA

A girl is lying on the ground in a forest area covered in leaves. The leaves begin to clear off her as she rises and starts walking forward. The forest environment fades into a city, but the earthy ground under her feet follows her as she walks and flowers bloom from it's dirt. She keeps moving forward and gets a water bottle from behind her back that she finishes and throws on the ground behind her. The earth under her feet grows smaller as she walks on and the environment becomes more dark and dingy. The girl pulls a cell phone out of her pocket and starts texting and she laughs. The earth gets smaller still and stops following her. The camera zooms in on it and the flowers begin to die.
Tagline: Don't forget the earth.

Concept#2: Animal Abuse PSA
Early one morning sunlight hits a dog bed where a brown plush dog toy is lying. The young children of the house come and pick it up and shake it vigorously, throw it and leave. The father of the house comes through the door, sees the doll and kicks it, beginning a slightly comical montage of the doll being abused all day-- getting thrown around, kicked, the door closing on it, the family car running over it's leg. Then the day is over and the brown, dirty doll is thrown back on the dog bed and the sun goes down. The next morning the sun comes up and then lying on the dog bed is an actual brown dog that whimpers.
Tagline: Animals deserve our respect.

Concept#3: Anti-Racism PSA
A guy bumps into another man crossing the street and proceeds to yell at him and make angry, racist remarks based on the color of his skin. Suddenly everyone on the street stops and the air rings with silence. Everyone stares at the racist man and he glances around him, getting more and more unnerved by the minute. He backs away through the crowd and the environment around him begins to crumble and float away- a door seems to open under him and he falls, landing on the sidewalk and about to cross the street as he was just moments before. Confused and dazed, he bumps into the same stranger he had previously crossed paths with. Instead of his prior outburst, he merely apologizes and says "Excuse me."