Topic: Your First Project

This is one of those "creative people embarrass themselves" thread.

I was digging through my photobucket today and wanted to see how far back it went, and boy did it ever go back...aaalllll the way back. So I'm gonna show em to you guys. big_smile

My first ever quote-unquote real project I ever did in blender/3D (Roughly mid grade 10, so 2007ish):
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/maul2/LeftSide.jpg

The character for my first animated short film ever (Done for a contest for free ride to Vancouver Film School...didn't win. Late 2007ish I think):
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/maul2/Montytexturehelp2.jpg

Unfortunately I don't think there's a copy left of the film itself online, and if I have a copy that survived my hard drive crash last year, it's probably buried so deep I'd never find it anyways.

If anyones curious and wants to, there's an entire slew of photos following that one of progress photos for this BATSHIT insane project I tried to pull off through grade 11-12 (2008-09) that really needs to be seen to be understood. I'm really tempted to go find the finished shot and upload it for you guys, just so you can see this goddamn thing.

Any old school TFNers might remember this one, I think I kept up an update thread for it in there somewhere.

But well...this was just one piece of a full landscape I did (not well obviously, but did)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/maul2/Apr05-09pt10.jpg

And ended up something like this....except animated, and 3 minutes long....with more shit.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/maul2/Apr17-09pt2.jpg

Yes folks, I have never done anything small....ever.

So anyways, your first horrible projects, let's see em. big_smile

PS: Also, for some reason, this was in there too. Ah, the good ol' days.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/maul2/DifBlackHoledTop.png

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2013-10-02 09:50:10)

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BigDamnArtist wrote:

PS: Also, for some reason, this was in there too. Ah, the good ol' days.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/maul2/DifBlackHoledTop.png

Just got punched in the face with nostalgia.

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Life in the Cage.  This is the doc I made for 1200 bucks during my senior year of college, between 1999-2000.  Ignore the first 15 seconds or so as its just some title that the bootleggers through on there.

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http://web.archive.org/web/200912011622 … ront.net/?

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This was my first editing project on Premiere at the tender young age of fourteen. Even more than the dodgy editing, the fact that I used a Linkin Park song as the soundtrack mortifies me to no end.

I started this project at the same time, but spent a longer amount of time on it; I count them as co-projects, which is why I posted both.  My most-viewed YouTube video to date, which makes me really sad that the fanfilm it advertises never came to fruition.

Last edited by Abbie (2013-10-02 20:47:14)

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I made a similar thread a while back, but that was solely just for first short films. May as well repost what I put in there though.

Owen Ward wrote:

Nothing fancy, I know. But it was good fun to do and taught me a lot about the basics of filmmaking. I couldn't use any sort of NLA back then as I had no way of capturing it on to my computer, so all the editing was done in-camera. Throughout the years, I've occasionally gone back to it and done some special editions with some colour grading, muzzle flashes and a soundtrack.

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5 years ago... wow.

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Random things from my first year in MMS - MultiMediaSchool (MargMiðlunarSkólinn) 2007
The houses there were the first things I ever made in 3D.

I remember I had to throw this together in few minutes at the time. Rendered it out as the teacher spoke and handed it in at the end of the class... it was ugly but it got the job done.

Last edited by AshDigital (2013-10-03 08:36:57)

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Some of the early stuff I have to hand. None of this really counts as a project - the first would actually be Road Trip.  neutral

1998. Bryce 3d
http://i.imgur.com/Fb35mse.png

1998. Biro and Photoshop ... 4?
http://i.imgur.com/DsJZg9I.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lUoAppc.jpg

2000. First Wacom tablet and Photoshop 5
http://i.imgur.com/ozSvnh1.png

2001. Photoshop
http://i.imgur.com/bRkoYzn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/BQ0D9SW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/wkWZLEQ.jpg

2001. Lightwave 5 or 6?
http://i.imgur.com/pNE1CAS.jpg

Last edited by Dave (2013-10-04 11:49:07)

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Back when I was trying to study computer sciences (eventually failing because I hated them and deciding to study VFX instead) we had some sort of a communication class. At the end of my first year there, we had to make a video we would show to a jury and an audience. Any kind of video would do - picture story, music clip, short film.

It was a group project, so I ended up working on it with two friends, who helped me as best as they could - but this group project was really an excuse to make something I'd had in mind for years, a Lego Star Wars stop-motion movie. That was three and a half years ago.

One of my two friends was a big Star Wars fan too, so he helped me a lot with the story. He also helped me with the stop-motion shooting (three whole damn days locked in my bedroom taking picture after picture). Video shots for the Imperial shuttle and Star Destroyers were done by me later on, with a camcorder I somehow had managed to make my dad buy me.

Everything in post-processing was done by me. I had to redo the whole Star Wars opening sequence (which I think I nailed back then), make background images with Photoshop (planets and such, and the big hangar deck which was a big composition of the same group of Lego bricks shot several times). Lots of keying (which so doesn't work at several points). Compositing, roto, etc.

I really lacked time to finish this (also we sucked at voice acting), and of course I was younger and a beginner at it. But damn, I had fun. I think it was at this point that I realized what I really wanted to do with my life.

Stop-motion Lego videos and I go back a long way. I made a lot of them when I was around 12, and the idea of making a bigger one, enhanced with VFX, was in my mind since then.

PS: if you're wondering, here's a translation of what the opening says:

Nineteen years have passed since the rise of the Empire. The Jedi Order has been decimated. Emperor Palpatine rules as the only master.

The Sith Lord Darth Vader, dark apprentice of the Emperor, is sent to inspect the Death Star. This battle station, created by Grand Moff Tarkin, is provided with a superlaser able to destroy a whole planet.

When this weapon is complete, nothing will prevent the Empire from making terror reign in the galaxy...

It actually sounds pretty stupid and has nothing to do with the story that follows, involving a Jedi we pulled out from the EU (A'Sharad Hett). big_smile

Last edited by Saniss (2013-10-04 12:36:32)

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I did stop motion for several school projects, but used VHS so I don't have them anymore.  sad
But, stop motion is always near and dear to my heart because of how many I did in high school.

I also did a lightsaber battle for a senior project in 2002, titled "Revenge of the Sith" and involved every cliche fan films had at the time. Somewhere is a VHS (my friends deny its existence to this day) and I will some day convert it to digital and share.

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Circa summer of 1993 I had learned a few things in 3D Studio, and thought I should be the guy to animate The Hobbit. Somewhere I have a lip-synced speech from the pile of gold also, but I've not tripped over it in a decade or so.

Last edited by drewjmore (2013-10-05 03:12:38)

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