Andrew Stover: It's Time for the Mages!

Imagine a world where magic and the unknown are true.

this is what I have been working on for the past few weeks.

I have been busy with this new animation with my friends. My friends Logan Keck, Laura Armstrong, Jacob Williamson, Alex Schmidt all got together to create this . The idea we came up with was a magic show that turns into a little more action packed. We worked hard on this and hope we did a good job.

The things we wanted to put into this was to have a fantasy aspect to it. We all talked about the idea that was to be decided on. The group had many ideas to begin with but finally slashed all, but the one on the mage wars. the roles were given out later after developing the story. I was an actor, and an editor, Logan was a actor, and an editor, Alex was an actor, editor, and choreographer *note not a director and Laura was an editor and actor, and finally Jake was the camera man and an editor.

We then went to film it to have an outline of what we wanted to do. after story boarding on the idea of what props we had to. We assigned roles for every one and I was an actor and an editor for the green screening we had to do.

The rough was of the original idea we all came up with. it shows what the story of the stop motion animation, and it was our way of story boarding for this animation.

The process of the taking pictures took longer than expected, but we had some set backs and over came them by re-shooting pictures. We learned that a green screen has to be a exact color or it will show shadows. along the way with the filming we learned how to key-light the photos to make them have a PNG type backing of Transparent in the Adobe After Effects program. If there was anything we could have done differently it would be the way we used to try and fix the shadows on the green screen and how shaky the camera man's hands were. Still some things I would keep the same would be the idea we had, and the method used to capture the pictures, with the green screen, and camera used.

If there was anything we could have done differently it would be the way we used to try and fix the shadows on the green screen and how shaky the camera man's hands were. Still some things I would keep the same would be the idea we had, and the method used to capture the pictures, with the green screen, and camera used.

These are what the pictures look like before we edited them with the Key-Lighting on our program. Still as you can see the lighting is harsh so we have to deal with that before finishing. However after all the work is put into this project I believe it will work out and be beautiful.

This is what we have after editing some of the scenes. The animation is not finished, but it should be on it's way soon.

Finished Product:

With the final video here we changed up a few things. thew ending actions are different from the original in the rough video. the war seen was switched to a wild west theme showdown. the original was a blinding light consuming the cast and fades into the credits. The ending is really the only thing changed but for a first project like this i feel it turned out well.