Time Arts Video Projects
Here are some of my favorite video projects. These are not for profit since these were fun learning experiments to play around with animation programs such as the Adobe products. Please don't copy for use. They contain images and videos from mainstream music, film, art, images found online, etc. These were for class projects for fun only!
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Intro to Time Arts
Monster Collage Mash Test
Content like the music and videos don't belong to me! Please don't copy for further use!
Sound
Now Hear This Sound Redesign
This animated video is from my BFA Sound Art course at NIU for a total sound redesign project using the Looney Tunes short film, Now Hear This. For this project, I found sound and music for free online, and sound I and several classmates created inside a sound booth before going our separate ways to make our videos with the sounds we created in the sound booth. I voiced some lines and sounds of the short man's character and the saying for the ending line. I laughed in a scene and made various sound effects with zinging and train whistles I had from my childhood toys.
All rights reserved to Warner Bros. All sound effects used in the redesign were found online for free or made at the NIU college's sound booth.
Video Art
From both Video Art and Advanced Video Art
Video Killed the Radio Star Monty Python Style
I created this video during my college studies for my BFA in Art Studio and Design-Design and Media Arts, Time Arts for a Video Art class, and later revisited the project for an Advanced Video Art Class for my After Effects project. I don't own the song. Please don't use for any means! Pictures and images found online!
How To Play Baseball Live Action Remake
In my Advanced Video Art Class during my Fall 2021 semester, we were assigned to make a "How To" video with only one week to film and edit it. I wasn't sure what to do until I remembered a series of some old, animated Goofy "How To" shorts, and decided to remake "Goofy's How to Play Baseball" short. With the time constraints, I felt this was an opportunity to experiment with my college's Art Department's green screen room for the first time. I asked some of my classmates to volunteer to be my actors as the baseball players, and we met in the green screen room for filming, except for Goofy, of course. I had most of the props and borrowed a baseball bat from my neighbor. There was no budget or time for costumes/uniforms. Sorry for the masks. The video was filmed during COVID. I took pictures of a local baseball field that I used to edit onto the green screen later. I hope everyone enjoys what I created with little time. I do not own "Goofy's How to Play Baseball"; Disney owns the short.
2D Animation
Flour Sack Slide
Flour Sack 2D Animation Project from 2020. Animation by Erica Johnson. Please don't use without my permission unless for animation study.
3D Animation
This was a semester-long project to make a 3D character and put that character in a setting. I used Maya and Blender while working on this project.
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3D Digital Sculpting
Two of my big projects for this class using Z-Brush
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Interactive Arts
Candy Grab Trailer
A trailer that I created last minute for my 2D video game project for my Interactive Arts class. You play as a ghost going from your hometown in the world of Halloween to the world of Christmas to get to a friend's party. I still wanted to post this to show off the concept. The main character, the Ghost, the bats, candy, and candy corn bullets were by me. The backgrounds in the game were made in collaboration with Emily Wilson (Portfolio Link Below).
Senior Project
The Bandit Decos “Rumple’s Daughter” Sneak Peek Animatic
My BFA project using 2D animation as my chosen medium represents the influences of my work over the last three years as animation continuously inspires and challenges me. Different sections in my short reflect a wide array of influences on my work. I took inspiration from the Art Deco Revival prints by Erté and the manga works of Japanese anime artist Seizo Watase. Meanwhile, the characters in the human world will have a human, Disney-like look to them, but the cartoon featuring Rumple's daughter's backstory references the 1920s and early 1930s cartoons. The plot is a twist on my Johnson family legend of the Chicago Mafia confiscating my great-grandfather's slot machine. This history became the inspiration for The Bandit Decos story, but with a Fairy Godmother twist to contrast with a Mafia Godfather. My goal is to expand this to a 2D animated animatic to promote a larger future project.
Animation by Erica Johnson. Please don't use without my permission, unless for reviewing.