COMMERCIAL PROJECT - HAFEST IDENT: ENTRY 2

After the short warm up with After Effects I began making an attempt on creating an orange fluid filling up the wine glass. I started with using the pen tool and made a straight line from outside of the composition and then into the bottom of the wine glass, for this’ll act as the end point of the liquid. The next step was to apply a wave warp effector onto the shape layer, it will change the straight line I’ve drawn into a liquid substance. On the effect controls it was then a matter of trial and error and many changes were made into the miscellaneous options of the wave warp effector, such as the “Wave speed” alongside the “Wave Width” It was a time consuming task, for I wanted the liquid not to be too thick and needed to meet the common expectations of how the gravity and physics behind liquid dropping onto a wine glass.

For the orange fluid that fills the wine glass I used a masking technique for the liquid that fills the glass, I started with using the rectangle tool and marked 8 position key frames as well as 7 rotation key frames over a course of 2 seconds. The purpose behind this action is to give the illusion of the wine glass being filled with some orange substance, even though it is simply a matter of an orange square going up, the core motion has been mapped out. There is nothing more than refining the animation through clean-up, which is done by creating masks and apply the rectangle movement onto the fill layer for the wine glass, giving me the end result of an orange fluid filling the wine glass. The orange fluid that fills the wine glass is then given additional path key frames to drop into the wine glass once it’s done filling the glass.