Blarbus

Crow Folk

Winter term is wrapping up here at Carleton, which means that final papers, projects and tests are all looming over the horizon of the coming weeks.  Ordinarily this would be a time when the blarbus takes on a bit of an abandoned hue, but this time around I'm lucky enough to actually have coursework that is relevant to movies and animation and such. 

Here's a small taste of the final project I'm working on for Advanced Editing Techniques:

This is a small taste of what the final project is shaping up to look like.  In the words of Donald Trump: "It's gonna be uuge."

Commie Stomping

I give you another bizarre, yet useful, After Effects assignment.


Commie Stomping from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.

What is your favorite color?

Here's a small assignment I did today for Advanced Editing Techniques.  Just a quick exercise in playing around with type animation.


Pythons and Montys from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.

Haka in the Springtime

Here's a charming little assignment I did for my Advanced Editing Techniques class.  Just experimenting with the puppet tool in after effects and crude lip syncing.

Explanation of Haka

Muscle Man

This is the base mesh for a character that will eventually become a tipsy, armor-clad knight with a lampshade over his head.  It was modeled with two crude drawings for reference, so a lot of the detailing and geometry had to be modeled freehand as I went along.

I realize these model flyarounds might be a little boring, but they will soon lead to cooler material.  Sometime either this week or next week I hope to be putting chain mail and armor plating on him, and maybe even have him walk around a little, so stay tuned.


Man Rotate from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.

The Head!

Great success today.  I finally got around to modeling and texturing a human head in Blender.

Blender Human Head from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.

Total time involved was probably about five or six hours.  I realize the ears are messed up, and the skin looks predictably waxy, but this was a huge improvement for me in being methodical with both the construction of the model and the texture detail.

More to come another day.

Motion Graphics

Hey everybody,

Blarbuswise, I've been a bit of a slug lately, but I'm hoping that will change very soon.  This little animation:

Download Marketplace_3.mov (24695.2K) (It's nary a streaming, so you might want to 'Save As')

was an assignment I did for a course I'm taking called "Advanced Editing Techniques," where we basically learn about the fundamentals of Adobe After Effects.  Considering that I'm currently in the doldrums of creativity, this should help encourage me to keep pumping things out.

Expect more...

...soon?

Alistair Sloan- Full Movie

Well, I think it's about time I put this thing up online and close this chapter once and for all.  Thanks again to all who helped out.  I know we all learned a lot. 

I've divided it into two parts to satisfy the whims of the vimeo gods.

Part 1:

Alistair Sloan Pt. 1 from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.

Part 2:

Alistair Sloan Pt. 2 from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.

Alistair Sloan Trailer

Here it is, folks!  This is the final version of the trailer, featuring the new musical score and screening time:

Saturday, November 15th
Scoville 102     7:00PM 

So if you feel like you need a break from finals, by all means stop on by.  After all, the film is only twenty minutes long.

DVDs will be sold after the screening for a mere $5 apiece!

Alistair Sloan Trailer from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.

Alistair Sloan: Post-Production

The movie is definitely coming along nicely, and is now in the final stages of post-production.  Visual effects are, for the most part, completed, and the overall cutting and pacing of the movie has been laid out and tinkered with.  The last big step coming up will be polishing everything to make it sound and look awesome.  This includes our composer starting work on the musical score as well as a few of us going through the film shot by shot, making sure the sound and image is as clear and vibrant as it can be.

And as the post-production winds down, marketing and distribution is being fired up.  Posters, DVD menus, special features, and packaging are all in the pipeline.  Below are a few stills from the visual effects shots as well as the current version of our poster.