Wednesday, 20 January 2016

The Man in the High Castle - Opening Intro - HD


Maybe the song captured my imagination, but love the visuals in this title sequence...

Friday, 15 January 2016

Creating a visual theme

Some rough sketches in Photoshop - creating a theme from my concept ideas




Haha this is brilliant...
This is a great visual representation of how my creative mind operates during our training in Maya, Mudbox and our academic lectures -

I was informed during Digital Tutors that Adobe changed the colour of the interface in Photoshop/After Effects etc to a dark grey - to make it a more submersive experience. In my opinion it absolutely worked....

Saw this clip with a camera and viewed it with ideas linked to my final project idea...

Love this ident too...

Title sequence research ideas

Alongside GoingLive I am researching title sequences for inspiration for my final project...
I'm checking out companies to contact for interviews and found this link...

http://www.imaginaryforces.com/work/sci-arc-promotional-teaser
Really like the soundtrack to this piece - and the simplicity and textures in the images...

Thursday, 14 January 2016

Title sequences and concept visuals

So my ideas for my final project have taken a big turn...
During an online course that I've taken over the Christmas holidays I've been inspired by the visual below, taken from Lisa Liang course on Digital Tutors...

I've also become very interested in VFX and animated title sequences.
So my starting point of the next round of research is to create a 'feature film' quality concept environment and bring it to life in an animated title sequence....drawing on inspiration from Game of Thrones, The Jinx and Making a Murderer. Links below to the title sequences....

I can use my ideas from the intial storyboard - a woman trapped in a camera film negative, fights to become 3D, as a starting point.

I intend for my final project to not only be a good artistic piece in it's own right, but also as a vehicle to showcase animation, modelling, rigging, compositing and VFX methods and abilities...



Lisa Liang Visual


My initial 20 second concepts in Photoshop



Game of Thrones title sequence


The Jinx title sequence


Making a Murderer title sequence


Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Going Live project - production meeting 1

So Semester 2 has begun!

Brainstorming ideas, planning and our first production meeting - for our Going Live project.
Brief has been provided by Axis in Glasgow http://www.axisanimation.com/ in conjunction with Phillip Vaughan at DJCAD