Old DMA Ninja Film

My latest After Effects project was to take 1 second footage of two ninjas provided by our professor and key out the bluescreen and put in appropriate background.

Because I was a big fan of the early Mortal Kombat arcades and couldn't help but think of Raiden and Shang Tsung, I started looking for levels from either MK1 or MK2.

But, I decided the footage would look out of place on those backdrops, I just googled "Japan" and found an old grainy photo at http://peace.maripo.com/images/slc_japan.jpg

That made this project for me, but after colour correction and matching the grain, it was missing one touch of that old film look. I remembered an early tutorial on videocopilot.net which featured blank 8mm film. I added it and voila.

The Start of Rebranding

So I started toying around with the idea of rebranding my website, starting with my logo. I like the RGB bars and how they tied my site together, but the drive behind my entire purpose with that site was originally based on its name, Infinitesima (in case you're wondering, it's pronounced "infinite-ESS-immah"), which is derived from the word infinitesimal, meaning infinitely small.

At any rate, I wanted it to be tied with the concepts of infinity and zero, and not so much the primary colours of light.

Here's my new logo, to be displayed on white, rather than black