Hasta La Motion!

First of all, I guess introductions are in order since I’m new here. My name is Milton, I’m currently ending my final graduation year here in Portugal in Cinema and Video Studies, and one of my late passions has been working on film post-production, namely color grading and compositing.

Most of what I’ve learned however came from reading and watching a lot of online source material like tutorials and such, meaning I’m still very “green” in this field.
However, having been experimenting and working a lot with home recordings and softwares like Adobe After Effects, Mocha and a short two month foundation course in 3D Max, I managed to get myself a position as Chief of Post-Production on two of this years’ graduation short-films (in order to complete our graduation, we have to work on five 8 min. short films).

One of such projects is (for now) called “The White Board”, and it’s a retro-sci-fi sort of flick set um in a world where emotions are illegal, and literally sucked in from the eyes of people in order to contain them. For me this has been a challange, for in each shot of this 7 min. long film I have to essencially mask and darken the actresse’s eyes or give them a glowing blueish tone by the final scenes.

I’m gonna be posting some shots to showcase the work I’ve been doing. For this one, a quick insert shot of a scene where a machine is sucking an emotion through an eye, I used AFX CS4 for Compositing, and Avid DS Nitris for Color Correction.

Sorry for the lenghy post and equaly boring introduction.

Also, sorry for my terrible english!

http://vimeo.com/24898920