By Lars Bojen //
The students in 6 groups from 1.sem Film&Animation have just finished a 2 month music videoproject starring The Fall From Grace, a danish EMO band.
The students among other things made market analysis, concept development, Animatics and a 60 sec. Music Video now available at YouTube.
Some of the tools used in the project: HD cameras, Greenscreen footage recordings at the MMD studio, CS4 Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Maya 2009 and 3D Max.
The band participated in the evaluation an were very positive about the work and now plans to use the some of the videos for the Spring 2010 CD release campaign.
See some of the music videoz at YouTube: GROUP´5 MUSIC VIDEO . GROUP 6 MUSICVIDEO
Link: www.youtube.com
Link: www.youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUnX29PJ960
Read more about the project at the project site http://thefallfromgrace.sub.ots.dk/.
Students from 3. sem Film & Animation in MMD Odense have made exercises in the art of matchmovin/cameratracking. Maya Live and After Effects was for combining CG/VFX in live video recordings. See example below made by Brian Mortensen.
//Lars Bojen
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The company Ahead ( www.ahead.com)made a very interesting presentation 16/11 for MMD

students and teachers.
Ahead is a startup company, specialized in online collaborative creative presentation tools. The tool is made in Flash. It´s FREE and the students/creative people can use it for nonlineary presentations and portfolios.
Henrik Pallesen showed us the possibilities that the Ahead software gives. Also he told about the company organization and what is required to work in a company like Ahead. Currently Peter Toth graduate from MMD Odense 2008) works in the company as Flex developer.
Flex is a coding software made by Adobe that collects all the coding required to make the Ahead Flash application to work.