The Unofficial Luis Hurtado™ Fan Club

Speed Cameras

Luis Hurtado — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:26:06 +0000

Speed Cameras

Bliss.

Luis Hurtado — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:09:27 +0000

Bliss.

Father’s Day 2009

Luis Hurtado — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:10:28 +0000

Fathers Day

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Ooh, good quote!

Luis Hurtado — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:39:38 +0000

“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.”

-William Faulkner

NorCal Trip

Luis Hurtado — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:43:38 +0000

Hiking in Santa Monica Mountains

Luis Hurtado — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:53:34 +0000

Will Hathaway offered up the opportunity to go hiking up in the Santa Monica Mountains. I hadn’t gone hiking in a long while, so I decided to take him up on the invite.

Click here for a link to the Facebook photo-gallery as well.

Kevye West: 808s & Expiration Dates

Luis Hurtado — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:54:11 +0000

[ Read More to find out how I did the visual FX ]

Joe Lynch ended up shooting the music video, chopping it up and editing a fairly finished rough-cut by Tuesday or so of last week ( ~Dec. 16. ) He dropped off an external hard-drive, and I copied the rough cut Final Cut Pro QT locally onto my 2nd-Generation Macbook Pro with 3GB of RAM.

I brought it into After Effects CS3, and started going through each shot, seeing which light-sources I could attach lens flares to.

I decided to use Sapphire Plugins for the color-correction and lens flares. It turned out really great, they have an amazing hue/sat/bri plugin that allows you to adjust the brightness / contrast while still being to offset the darks lighter or brighter which allowed me to give it that ‘muted / white but high-contrast’ look that I was going for to parody the colors in Kanye’s Love Lockdown video.

There’s an, ‘Auto-Tracker’ Lens Flare Sapphire Plugin which dynamically adds lens flares to white-hot bright light-sources. It tends to ‘jitter’ around the frame a lot, so for the most part I animated and placed the lens flares by hand.

Since each shot has different white hot spots and brightness values, I went through each shot and set custom values for color-correction for each specific shot. It was fairly tedious, but I was really happy with the final outcome.

Below are Before & After shots of the music video to give you some reference on how the effects were added.

[ The 'Before' Shot ]

[ The 'After' Shot ]

It really goes to show you how easy it is to create a sharp-looking, high-budget / production values piece. I hope you enjoyed the quickie ‘behind the scenes.’

[ Logo Design ] TrackFanatic

Luis Hurtado — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:21:33 +0000

[ TrackFanatic Logo Design ]

Working on a side project with a few other race vehicle-enthusiasts. Lots more to come. For now, check out this logo I designed.

Lou-spiration

Luis Hurtado — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:07:01 +0000

[ Inspiration Image Gallery, Updated Daily ]

Dropbox has this feature of allowing you to sync a local folder of images and photos off your hard drive. I decided to sync my Inspiration folder, which are random photos, graphic design pieces, illustrations, life quotes, random musings and such. Some photos in the photography section may be a bit risquee. I update it daily, enjoy.

Blast off!

Luis Hurtado — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:46:00 +0000

I caught the YouTube video of the Space X – Falcon 1 spacecraft. The first privately developed spacecraft to orbit the Earth. I ripped the video to a quicktime, and edited it in Adobe After Effects. I took a cue from Pink Floyd’s Echoes to give it that ethereal feel, I can’t get enough of that song. If you notice, the choir sings their ghostly tune just as the rocket booster is heating up. It just so happened to line up that way. Enjoy.