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Property Investment Presentation Animations

RichH — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:26:58 +0000

This was a reasonably big motion graphics project I did in 2009 but haven’t had time to upload until now.

The green screen footage of the presenter was filmed by Navarone in London and sent to me to add the animated backgrounds to make things a little more interesting. I think there we’re 15 videos to get through in total, each one at least a couple of minutes long. As there were that many videos to animate in a short time it was decided to keep the overall style pretty basic and mostly use simple kinetic typography.

All the animation was all done in After Effects.

By the way, there’s a little animated sting at the end of some of these videos (some spinning video screens) that has nothing to do with me – I was provided with that and asked to add it to the end of some of the videos I created

Epileptic Origami

RichH — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:38:27 +0000

Another little experiment that’s not meant to be anything in particular, but that might turn into something more exciting one day.

Take any old polygon, inset then extrude some of it’s faces, add some twist and then warp it’s vertices into a sphere. Then go crazy with the key frames and randomly animate the % of sphericalness (that’s probably not a word by the way), degree of twist and change the initial number of polygons on the base shape and this is the sort of animation you’ll probably get.

Animated and rendered in 3D Studio Max, post done in After Effetcs.

The music track is All To All by Broken Social Scene.

Some stills from the video…

CMYK

RichH — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000

A quick entry to another Greyscale Gorilla Five Second Project. This time the subject was CMYK.

The blobs were animated with RealFlow and then rendered in 3D Studio Max with Vray’s ‘Fast SSS2′ material to get the waxy look.

Online Advertising Promo Video

RichH — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0000

A short motion graphics piece I did for SeeVue Digital in London to highlight the various routes MS’s online advertising takes.

The various assets were screen-cammed and positioned in space using 3D layers in After Effects with the obligatory corporate copy. Video Copilot’s Sure Target plugin was used to jump between the layers.

Sprinkle on a little wiggle() with some motion blur and depth of field and you’ve got yourself a nice little corporate video.

It would have been nice to sync it to the audio a little better and maybe drive some of the particles in the background with SoundKeys or something similar. Maybe next time…

Over Exposure

RichH — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000

One bad joke + bad animation + free sound effects + yellow = my contribution to the latest greyscalegorilla 5 second project – “Nude No More“

The Magician

RichH — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000

It was a slow work day, so I made this short animation for the latest greyscalegorilla Five Second Project instead.

The subject was “Fail“

Some credit needs to go to:
The characters are just the (awesome) free rig made by Brad Noble with eyes and a moustache stuck on.

The 1920′s piano track is spliced together from a free file downloaded from freesound

Animation: 3D Studio Max
Post: After Effects

Website Promo Video

RichH — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:20:33 +0000

A little motion graphics piece I did for Swamp @ Brahm (now called Brass) to illustrate the new features of a website they’d been putting a lot of hard work into.

The concept for the piece was by the creative guys and girls at Swamp, but they left it up to me to interpret their brief and this is how it turned out.

The whole thing was created layer by layer in After Effects, using the 3D layers and camera. Most of the mouse cursor movement etc is animated within AE, only a couple of bits are actual screen captures of the new site as it wasn’t live at the time we made this.