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Hi, everybody

It's been a while since I've posted here... my life has been quite busy lately.

Well... I finally got time to make a small posts with a little update on my VFX learning trip: I am a 3D Animator. Yes, I, now, can create fully functional 3D animations and I have achieved a certain level of realism on the movements and such... I have a small video on YouTube that shows an attempt to incorporate 3D Animation with real-life footage... but anyway, it's not very good. I do better with reflections and details than with improvised rock animations.

The other thing that I wanted to talk to you about, thus the title of this post, is my YouTube account.

You can find me on YouTube by following this link right here --> http://www.youtube.com/fjrsm

If you have a YouTube account, please subscribe and comment to my videos. Rate them and share them. Fairly recently, I began to face YouTube as a community just like the regular forums you can find me in. I had never realized how there could be so much interaction between members by just rating and commenting videos. Again, please subscribe to my videos because that will be good for me :P. It would be relatively good to you too, as you, each time you logged on to YouTube, you would see if I had posted more videos.

I will be posting more and more videos on YouTube and I need support and all the help I can get to help spreading them throughout the internet. I will start posting Video Tutorials, similar or not to the one I have up on Vimeo, I'll start posting How To videos about various things. I will leave my viewers to choose something that they would like to know how it's done. Once I get their, and yours, suggestions and if I can figure out how to do that specific thing that you want to learn, I will make a video out of it.

I'm probably going to start a video blog, too. I can talk about anything you want if, again, you tell me what you want me to talk about. I want to have a more interactive presence with my viewers on YouTube so that I stop being just some guy that posts videos. I want them to matter to people and that they could find advice, tips about all the various stuff.




That being said, which it was all I wanted to share with you guys, I'll end this post.

Thanks for reading.



Please subscribe http://www.youtube.com/fjrsm





Filipe Monteiro

Foley Test

Foley is a fake adding of sound.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-BLkMaLJ2o

No sound there was caught by camera.






Filipe Monteiro

Comments

Hello again, readers
I would like to request a little activeness from all of you... yes, all 5 of you. I would like you to post comments so that I know that I am not alone in this harsh world... poor old me... anyways, yeah... do post some good comments.

See you guys on the web.





Filipe Monteiro

My, my... what an awesome VFX Test you got there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DonmrxfWNmI

A pretty cool animation I did yesterday :D
Tadaaa





Filipe Monteiro

Again... yeah...

So, yeah... I've, again, failed to keep a steady posting rate. Sure, I have made quite a few posts and they were not very distanced from each other so... that's nice.

Anyways...

I am currently working on a Visual Effects Demo Reel. I am currently figuring out what to put in there and I am trying to keep it between three minutes or so. I'll try to maintain my focus on two elements - Rotoscoping and Compositing.

Today I have been testing some stuff with Trapcode's Particular and After Effects' In-Built Plug-In CC Particle World. The main idea was to create a fiery looking Comp. I kinda got where I wanted to but there's still some tweaking needed to generate a more real looking fire. I used CC Particle World for the little sparks that fly around and Trapcode's Particular for the actual smoke and the fire itself. That's what needs tweaking. For the final composition I wish to create a full scenery with shadows and lighting and, not to forget, some pretty decent Camera Moving and Editing.

Well... other than that, I am currently writing a story with a good friend of mine from Portugal, here, - Marcos. The story is coming along well but unfortunately I can't reveal anything. Only our sisters (Marcos' sister and one of my sisters) are involved in that and only more 2 people or so know about it. It's being a lot fun to do as I had never done something like this before. We have, now, a decent amount of pages and the story is coming along quite nicely.



Well... that's it for now. I hope that I have yet a few readers here.

Take care, my fellow readers,





Filipe Monteiro

RvB2 Rotoscoping Test

I uploaded a better resolution version on YouTube. Search it and click High Quality on the lower right corner near the video window.









Filipe Monteiro

Physical Lightsaber Skills

I was in a cramped space... also, I'm not nearly as weird as I look here.




Filipe Monteiro