Category Archives: after effects

mini.ca/trackster

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For the last little while I’ve been spending almost 100% of my time on this mini project, it launched yesterday. This is my first car project at TAXI. The concept behind this microsite is that you get to put the mini through its paces by creating a track for it to drive through. You get to choose from a multitude of different obstacles. Some of which you need to unlock others you dont. At the end of it all you sit back and watch the whole thing unfold. I was responsible for animating the 9 sections plus the start and finish portions of the movies, not to mention the various shots throughout the piece. Jeff built the oh so nice framework for the microsite with a rock solid video player he also managed to make a stand alone player that lets you keep your videos and post them on your website, blog etc.

While this project was tiring to complete its one of the nicest sites I’ve worked on in a while. Check out the screengrabs below and then visit mini.ca

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After Effects 7.0

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Its installing on my work machine right now. We’ll see how it goes, hopefully I can still run 6.5 in the meantime.

**update #1**
G5 was acting wonky during additional plugin-installs, so I figured a re-boot was in order, machine now has a black screen with some white text. yay.

**update #2**
Warren and I spent the afternoon running diskwarrior on my G5, only to have DW crash right at the end, so we repaired permissions and hoped that fixed the problem, which it didn’t. So I left the office not knowing if we would have to do a full re-build of my machine (which would suck) hopefully I dont loose any data. More info tomorrow.

**update #3**
Its the next day, my G5 is POOCHED. I’m currently using the blazing fast speeds of firewire to transfer stuff from my box to an external drive.
yeeeee-haaaw!