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A little logo animation I produced for use on the stand I designed for Location Leeds at Mipim.
Rather than just show the sponsor logos one after another, I create this little 3d animation using the Location Leeds colours and branding to add a little interest.
This was a relatively quick video that I produced for ripe to help promote the forthcoming Jimmy Connors World of Tennis. I was responsible for story-boarding the piece, writing the voice over and creating all animated content, as well as actually putting the video together in Final Cut. All of this was done to tie in with the very minimal content we had to use. The general idea of the video was to aid in early promotions, this would then lead into a more involved and professional video with actual footage of Jimmy etc. I’m told Jimmy was very happy with this 1st draft video and it’s being used to help promote the scheme at various events.
Click the image to play the video.
A small animation produced for Ashley Bolser Agency to be used on a Nokia website and competition they have produced.
I needed to break down the different elements of the actual animation as it needed to be delivered in flash and the different parts of the vault opening animation were to be activated at different points in the user entering their competition information.
This meant that something that on the face of it, looks quite simple ended up being quite a puzzle of png files with alpha transparency and 4 different flv files also encoded with alpha transparency. I supplied all the files, along with a flash file of the finished assembled animation to the client to give them maximum flexibility in how the animation could be used.
The piece was created in 3d Studio Max and After Effects.
A 3d animated christmas card produced for aba, for their client the Callcredit Information Group.
The spinning present boxes were modeled in 3d Studio Max and textured and lit with Vray using a HDRI image to get the nice reflections in the silver bows and ribbon. A single render of a red box and silver box were saved out with alpha channels to enable compositing in After Effects. In After Effects I imported a photoshop composition enabling each layer to be animated, I then brought in my targa sequences of the spinning presents. The presents were animated as separate compositions and all the special effects added as each spins and bursts to reveal the letter beneath. The snow is simply a ’snow’ filter, but hey, it is Christmas !
This is a video piece created for a pitch to work with Ask and Manchester City Council to develop a large area in Manchester called 1st Street. The video was initially put together to showcase the work produced for the pitch and was one of the pieces the client really liked. Needless to say with the pitch won, the client wanted to re-use the video with a few changes to use as a tool to present the brand and the area.
The video was put together quickly so is a little rough around the edges, it works well though as a scene setter for the identity and tone of the scheme. The 3d buildings were quickly drawn up from a supplied siteplan and then animated using the audio track to drive the height of each building. This gave the 3d animation a nice feel as though the scheme was reacting to the beat of the music. A 3d camera was then set up and animated around the siteplan in 3D Studio Max. The whole animated sequence was rendered out for the duration of the audio track, so that the building track could be used as a base track in Final Cut, t overlay all other content. This way whenever I cut back to the building track, it would be in sync with the music.
All the other assets were created using After Effects and rendered out as separate pieces of DV video. All the clips were then assembled in Final Cut to create the final piece.
This is an intro / scene setting video produced for the Mazagan wesbite. Mazagan is a luxury resort by the one and only group
I put this video together from a shoot of the surrounding area and from still assets supplied by the client. The logo reveal at the end is a blend of 3d and various effects using adobe after effects.
Animation and 3d design work for a website for XS marine, a company who produce high performance speedboats. I was sent a few photos of their new boat and had to create a quick 3d model from the limited reference to show how animation and 3d could enhance their web presence. Additionally a 3d version of the boat could accurately show how sponsors graphics would look as well as showing how much room a given sponsor would get on the boat for a certain level of sponsorship.
This is a piece of work for leeds design agency ‘the spirit of’. The client is Hasbro games and the brief was to create / model and animate characters for use in a DVD version of the Trivial Pursuit game. Hence the characters are based on the cheese shaped wedges. The work covered a number of avenues of design for the characters, some with faces, some without, as the work was conceptual to see if Hasbro wanted to persue the ideas. The feedback from this initial set of work was very positive and the work is now going to be carried on by Hasbro’s in house animation department.www.thespiritof.co.uk
The image above shows the music man character and some of the morph targets created to allow the character to smile and blink. He does have arms, they are just invisible, it was easier to animate his hands and fingers when they were on the end of real arms !
These are a few images from the 3d spa work I designed and built for a flash website for Sanex for their recent Halthy Skin Workout Tour check out the site here.
At last !
I’m in a video that apple created,read the full story here. how bizarre ! Basically apple were on the look out for interesting agencies that were into convergence of technologies for a global series of seminars, and also to put on their ‘Pro’ section of their website. They approached ripe and well, watch the video to see the rest.