In this motion bolt video episode, we take a quick look behind the scenes on a the last 4 Christmas motion backgrounds, and how they were designed. Using After Effects and a few resources laying around, it is possible to make really cool backgrounds with everyday items.
The location is scouted. The appointments are made and the talent is on the way. The sun slowly rises revealing a picture-perfect landscape as the shot list starts getting shorter. At the end of the day, not everything filmed is going to be useable. Factors such as focus, composition, brightness and detail all play a part in deciding if a shot will make its way to a final feature. And unless you are working on a larger budget project with a team of people, each tasked with a particular duty to perform, it’s going to be challenging to be sure all the shots are turning out the way they were intended.
In this After Effects Tutorial, a summer picture is taken and through hue/saturation, adjustment layers, curves, and other tools, is transformed into a winter motion background.
Rustic Candles is a fantastic motion background package that is a great way to top off the 2020 season of backgrounds. It had been two years since a new candles package had been produced so it was time. So what did it take in order to pull this off?
Custom beats and music can be difficult to find given the complexity of so many options available. All the music starts to sound exactly the same. Wouldn’t it be refreshing to find music that hasn’t been used on every single commercial, or music that knows how to stand out and catch the listening ear?
A church down in South Africa made an incredible church music video using some of the motion backgrounds from our Candle Light motion background package. Using a combination of several backgrounds fading in and out of the video create a neat dramatic effect that really help give the video a unique look.
Several of the candle backgrounds have darker space in them allowing for beautiful slow crossfade transitions mixing two shots together slowly. Also the quality of the audio is excellent and was just a really well done video. This is an outstanding example of just another way motion backgrounds can be used to help increase experience and environment of a project.
It has taken us absolutely no time at all to familiarize ourselves with the world of online video calls. It seems that there are dozens of platforms that instantly popped up over night when addressing communication problems due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For the more tech save people, this wasn’t a hard adaptation, but merely took a few minutes to download the Zoom software and install it. For others, this should their worlds to their core and it’s an ongoing nightmare.
To get to the point, if you are doing zoom calls and are getting tired of the same old backdrop, whether that be in your parents basement, a white kitchen wall, or the crooked picture in your bedroom, changing up the background can be a nice breathe of fresh air. Jason Johnston has done a good job at walking someone through the steps. He made one critical error and that was selecting backgrounds from Pixabay, instead of Motionbolt.com, however, it was certainly good enough to be a huge help to those that need it.
It’s not every day that you create something and then see it pop up on a concert stage, a rock band backdrop, a church production, or even a live youtube show. We know it happens all the time due to the thousands of downloads each week, but we’re talking people in over 100 countries downloading this media. We rarely see the final products. I want to thank Ocean Deep LLC for sending me a link to their live Youtube production in which they used the 6 Free Christmas Motion Backgrounds in their production.
There are multiple interesting motion backgrounds used in the production, most of which are not from www.motionbolt.com, but if you scroll to about 7:51, and 11:23, you can see how the free Christmas motion backgrounds were used in a green-screen sort of way. Very nice and festive!! I also appreciate the show out from Ocean Deep LLC for adding my URL in the production.
As always, I love seeing how the motion backgrounds are used around the world in thousands of live productions and video each year and if you have used one and would like to share it with me, I would highly appreciate it!!!
