It’s Nacho Time

This is my final project for Multimedia class last year.

I had wanted to animate one of my favorite songs, Time is Tight by Booker T and the MGs. The graphics were all hand water-colored and animated frame-by frame in Final Cut Pro. I spent a lot of time in the multimedia lab matching it all up, but I’m very happy with the result.

The blue represents Bass. The yellow streaks were meant to suggest a strumming guitar. The green and orange splotches are percussion. As the Hammond B3 is the most dynamic instrument in the piece, I had a hard time figuring out how to represent it, but I decided on the banded accents and background color changes that you saw.

I used photoshop to isolate the shapes and set transparent backgrounds, and then as mentioned above, I placed each frame in Final Cut Pro.

Overall, I’m very pleased with how it turned out. Of course I would still make some changes, but now that I’m not taking the class, I don’t have access to Final Cut Pro.

I hope I did Booker T and the MGs justice.

Let me know what you think!

Here’s the result. It’s not as deep as I had hoped, my blue tape mask fell off as I was checking the progress and I really didn’t feel like putting it all back on. I’ll definitely try this again.

preview!