- Power Ranger
- Fish
- Fridge
- Yellow
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Top Ten... My Other Assets
This is a section of the red carpet I will use in my animations. I took a sample of a photograph of a red carpet, and did what I did with the Hollywood walk of fame; duplicated and mirrored it, to get a smooth effect.
This is another variation of the MTV logo I intend to use.
This is a Hollywood font, what I like about this, is it creates the background too! This would look good paired with my night back drop.
This is the clapper board, it is in two parts so the top arm of the board can be easily transformed.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Top Ten... Creating The Ident, Well One Of Them
My first ident is based on the Hollywood walk of fame, with the camera panning backwards along the path, before focussing in one one star before the title appears.
As I am an easily confused person, I have colour coded my layers in a way that makes sense to me, pink for objects on the left, brown for objects on the right, and red for the fixed components.
To create this, I prepared my assets in Photoshop, which was the path, using textures from photographs of the Hollywood Stars, and a simple black to blue gradient for the background. These were imported into After Effects, and to get the perspective of the path I altered the X Rotation, once I had enabled 3D. I created the paparazzi flashes using a Photoshop brush, which was imported to AE and the opacity adjusted across 3 frames, to get the quick flash. It was important to use a brush with feather to get that soft edge.
I used Tahoma for the Title, to keep it similar to the style of the star as the Honey Script I have chosen didn't suit. To keep with the style I wanted to use a golden colour for the text, but it clashed too much with the star, so I have gone for black so it stands out.
I have used the MTV logo, like the camera icon seen on the stars, I have even coloured the logo the same as the outline of the star to keep it similar.
As I am an easily confused person, I have colour coded my layers in a way that makes sense to me, pink for objects on the left, brown for objects on the right, and red for the fixed components.
To create this, I prepared my assets in Photoshop, which was the path, using textures from photographs of the Hollywood Stars, and a simple black to blue gradient for the background. These were imported into After Effects, and to get the perspective of the path I altered the X Rotation, once I had enabled 3D. I created the paparazzi flashes using a Photoshop brush, which was imported to AE and the opacity adjusted across 3 frames, to get the quick flash. It was important to use a brush with feather to get that soft edge.
I used Tahoma for the Title, to keep it similar to the style of the star as the Honey Script I have chosen didn't suit. To keep with the style I wanted to use a golden colour for the text, but it clashed too much with the star, so I have gone for black so it stands out.
I have used the MTV logo, like the camera icon seen on the stars, I have even coloured the logo the same as the outline of the star to keep it similar.
Top Ten... Walking Down The Red Carpet
Some of my idents involve the camera travelling down a 'path', this is a camera test to see how this would work in conjunction with other objects that may appear.
I want to add in some flashes to symbolise the paparazzi often seen waiting at the side of the red carpet photographing celebrities.
I used two different brushes from Photoshop and adjusted their opacity over 3 frames: 0%, 100%, 0% to get a flash effect. Clearly the second brush worked better which is a standard brush with feathering.
Camera and Layer Test from Gemma Byrne on Vimeo.
I want to add in some flashes to symbolise the paparazzi often seen waiting at the side of the red carpet photographing celebrities.
Camera and Layer Test with Flashes from Gemma Byrne on Vimeo.
I used two different brushes from Photoshop and adjusted their opacity over 3 frames: 0%, 100%, 0% to get a flash effect. Clearly the second brush worked better which is a standard brush with feathering.
Image... 2D 3D 2D Brief
Brief:
In response to the items and drawing, this has to be created on three dimensions and recorded photographically.
The process of documenting working methods and how you record/catalogue/collect these methods are as important as the final outcomes themselves.
You will rarely produce a piece of work three dimensionally and you not have documented it in some form. This documentation is necessary for the image to communicate to an audience.
Considerations:
THINK VISUALLY. Develop a range of visual solutions to this problem. How many ways can this narrative be recreated?
What scale to intend to work on? Is the image sequential or static?
Does the photographic process you use reflect the tone of the drawn image?
Practical Considerations:
This brief explores both drawing based principles and photographic processes.
How can you translate one method to the other and how do you bring them together?
Are there any practical considerations you must consider in terms of how you work and how will you move beyond these?
Mandatory:
All images should be supported by a broad range of visual investigation in the form of design sheets and notebooks.
The final image presented on an A3 in the appropriate format.
In response to the items and drawing, this has to be created on three dimensions and recorded photographically.
Background:
The process of documenting working methods and how you record/catalogue/collect these methods are as important as the final outcomes themselves.
You will rarely produce a piece of work three dimensionally and you not have documented it in some form. This documentation is necessary for the image to communicate to an audience.
Considerations:
THINK VISUALLY. Develop a range of visual solutions to this problem. How many ways can this narrative be recreated?
What scale to intend to work on? Is the image sequential or static?
Does the photographic process you use reflect the tone of the drawn image?
Practical Considerations:
This brief explores both drawing based principles and photographic processes.
How can you translate one method to the other and how do you bring them together?
Are there any practical considerations you must consider in terms of how you work and how will you move beyond these?
Mandatory:
All images should be supported by a broad range of visual investigation in the form of design sheets and notebooks.
The final image presented on an A3 in the appropriate format.
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Top Ten... Joining Existing Assets
Oscar into MTV from Gemma Byrne on Vimeo.
This could be used in my title sequence. Ideally I would like the Oscar statue to be completely 3D so when that element does it's rotation, the viewer can see it from different angles, at present it is a 2D image transformed in 3D.
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Top Ten... First Assets
These are my assets for my first ident, all of them have been created in Photoshop.
The background is a black that fades into blue to create a night time appearance.
The Hollywood Boulevard - Walk of Fame, was created using a small sample from a photograph, which was then duplicated and transformed/mirrored in Photoshop to get a smooth pattern with no lines etc. The patterns were then pasted into the basic grid I had already drawn out in grey for a pavement feel, with stars dotted on some of the squares. It was created completely 2D although at first I did alter the perspective and then import it into After Effects but this did not work. The canvas I worked on was 9000 pixels long, this is so there would be enough of the layer for the camera to travel down.
The first set of text is Helvetica, to make it look authentic to the stars on the walk of fame, originally they are gold, but the type receded into the background and was not very legible at all.
The MTV logo has been coloured to match the composition.
The second set of text 'Coming Soon' uses the Honey Script which will feature in all of my idents.
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