Shadow

For this assignment, Stacy and I thought it would be fun to mix live action and After Effects. Stacy came up with the idea of shadow puppets coming to life, and we kind of just ran from there. A lot of the fun of the video is in the sound effects and Stacy did an amazing job of making those choices. I animated the shadow and enjoyed it quite a bit. For scenes where the shadow had a figure to it, we used footage that we either found online or shot ourselves, rotoscoped the figure, killed the saturation and brightness, feathered the shape and then lowered the opacity. It worked well for the most part. There are a few scenes where there were some artifacts showing in the final render that I didn’t see on the timeline when I was editing. I’ll have to look deeper into the project to figure out what’s happening.

Shadow, a short film by Stacy and myself