Major Project - DG

With the last feedbacks from tutorial with Ian, the project has come to an end. Overall, I'm happy with the last product but I think there is still room for improvements in terms of motion design and render quality. Other than that, I'm happy with the 3D models and overall animations.

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With the last feedbacks and touches, I've come to an end for this project with 1 day earlier than I've projected on my Gantt Chart. You can see I'm supposed to finish everything on 17th but I've been able to finished it up today which is I think a good timing.

I've added Voice Over with promoting myself and the project itself based on the feedbacks I've had from tutorials. The 1min. video shows how the whole project has been made and who's been made for.

I've started to make my promotional video. I've prepared the clips from Blender and After Effects and gonna be adding the Voice Over where I will explain briefly about the project and promote myself. When I record the VO, I'm planning to finish this up next weekend.

I've started to create my promotional video on After Effects yesterday in exactly the date I've planned on my Gantt Chart previously. I've put the all proces I've done and final footages from the animation. I'm gonna be adding my VO by the end of this week.

The production of the project is almost finished. I'm going to be preparing my promotional video where I wil explain the project as well as the process briefly. According to the Gantt Chart, it seem I'm still on track which is a good sign for now.

With the adding transition effects and final color grading adjustments to Digital Gardens Project, I've come to an end. For the final touch, based on the comment that Ian pointed out on last tutorial I've made the whole video at least %10 slower in Premier Pro to make the flower to be seen as detalied as possible comfortably. Because he has said it would be nice if the audience could see the details of the flowers that I've modelled carefully for 2 weeks. As of now, I'm gonna start to produce my promotional video which i think it will take a week or so.

With this tutorial, I've learned some transition effects on Adobe After Effects which I havent been aware of. I've used some of the transition on my projects by the help of this tutorial. It's been quiet helpful for take my video to the next level in terms of the style.

I have watched this tutorial and found it quiet beneficial. This is because I wanted to add a cool transition effect called Push-in and Pull-out transition which I've never used before. It worked out queit well at the end and made my video a lot more aesthetic.

In general I have come to the last stage where i should start producing my promotional video soon. Other than that, I'm happy with the progess so far. It seems like I'm going on the schedule even slightly further which is always nice for testing.

Last week, I have started to edit the render footages that I had produced in Blender. It's nearly complete now, there are only a couple effects I want to try and add to make the video more layered and interesting. I got some feedbacks from Ian that I should make the videos a lot slower than it is now which I will planing to make that on Premier Pro. It was around 32 seconds long at first but I'm aiming to extend that up 45 seconds at least. So far I'm struggling with performance issue on After Effects as my footages are HQ and it occupies a lot of place on my disc but I'm trying to find the ways to optimize and run the software as smoothly as possible.