Desert Intro

desert from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.

This clip was created for a friend of mine who wanted a unique intro for his demo reel. He is an editor, so he had a specific idea in mind. After doing some story boarding, I created the animation of the 35mm film strip in After Effects by duplicating them a bunch of times and sticking them together end to end to create a long strip. I used a photo I found online that was taken in death valley. I used Photoshop to erase some of the rocks that were blocking the place where the film strip comes from the horizon. Finally, I used an adjustment layer to do the day to night transition and had a prekeyed clipped for the dust coming at the camera.

Comic Book effects

Heat Vision from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.

In these three projects I created some bullet bounce and muzzle flash effects for a guy who creates comic book shorts for his website. In the first one, I rotoscoped and colorized the gun to simulate it heating up. All effects were done in After Effects.

Bullet bounce from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.

In this one, I combined some color correction with some elements from action movie essentials to create the bullet bounce. The sound fx were from my own library of sound fx.

Muzzle Flash from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.

This video has multiple effects including a flying bullet and muzzle flash. With the combination of motion blur and some color correction, the action of the gun moving with the actor was more believable.