ITV2 Ident: Pool

This is a relaxed ident, aired August 2008, but I am not sure if it is still used now. I only seem to see the Dancing Feet!

The shot starts with a birds eye view of a very tanned lady in a bikini sunbathing who stands out against the white surroundings to a clean looking swimming pool, with a three dimensional ITV 2 logo that moves on to the diving board, with a splash sound as though someone has dived in. Then patterns begin to emerge from the wall of the pool along the floor, which incorporates a pattern of someone pushing off from the wall while swimming.

TRON!

Made by Man vs Machine!

Absolutely loved the graphics in Tron! I would love to make something as visually stunning as the title/logo - I love the use of lights, especially blue ones, they have a really futuristic feel to them. Look at this, its just...wow:

The colours and shapes of the type work great together, it's a really bold, strong visual. The chunkiness of the text almost reminds me of the Transformers logo.

This is similar in style to how the ITV ident will be - a motion graphic within a space. I love the simplicity of this.

Man Vs Machine

I have blogged them before and I will blog them again! These guys are behind the new More 4 rebrand consisting of colourful flipping triangles to represent the diversity of the programmes on the channel. I myself am still undecided on the different colours, it communicates their values but there's just something about it I am not sure on.



MvsM / More4 On-screen GFX from ManvsMachine on Vimeo.

A number of live idents showing real flipping triangles out in the real world have been filmed. They were installations by Jason Bruges studio, and can be seen here:



MvsM / More4 Idents from ManvsMachine on Vimeo.

This is a re-vamp they did for T4, the entertainment part of Channel 4. They produced a set of idents which are quite humorous, and made me smile when watching. The ideas are based on combining everyday objects with scenes:




Just beautiful. It speaks to the young 16-25 year olds that might watch T4!

Yearbook Meeting with Fine Art

Not To Scale: U.F.O

Another part to Not To Scale is the Unorthodox Film Organisation...

'...an eclectic directing collective based in Paris, France that has developed a steadfast following by working for a multitude of international clients..

This is a motion graphic for the guardian, using cartoons to depict films. Very simple and cleverly executed:

http://nottoscale.tv/director.php?director=ufo&project=the-observer-and-the-guardian-film-quiz

Not To Scale: Vincent

'One half of Vincent is former film industry Art Director and lead Animator John Hill....In 2006 he worked as a Design Director on the ITV rebrand for Red Bee Media where he met Vincents other half Rheea Aranha.  '

Vincent is part of Not To Scale,  and have done an MTV Top Ten ident, and in-programme features.

http://nottoscale.tv/director.php?director=vincent&project=mtv-top-10

The overall visual is bright and colourful, with a futuristic feel to it, emphasised by the electronic sounds in the music. The spherical objects are like disco balls but remind me of planets. For something like this I imagine Cinema 4D would be used as it is very three dimensional, with lots of different things going on - also there is the use of the three dimensional space, not just the objects.

Yearbook Images: Front Cover Variations

As I couldn't work out how to turn my .psd's into PDF's I have screen shotted my work...

We agreed on 3 variations as a minimum, but I really got into it. Here are different variations for the front cover:

These are only a prototype for our concept. None of this is set in stone. It just gives a starting point in our meeting to work out what the group likes/dislikes and how to take the direction further.

Cinema 4D

What an exciting programme!
Met up with Matt at 9:30 and he showed me some of the basics before letting me off the reign - I didn't create anything 'Hollywood' it's far too early in the game for that. I wish I had started learning this last year!

This is me experimenting with a spherical object reflecting from a HDI - with a light source.

This is a similar image with a background in, I used the clone tool to make 3 spheres instead of 1, and included a shadow by placing an omni light directly above the spheres.

 I used a white glossy floor here for the reflections (this is the kind of gloss I want for my white world).

I changed the angle and got rid of the shadow for the spheres. I also toned down the brightness of the floor so the reflection is more subtle.

I changed the position of the spheres, and moved the light source.

Just playing about and created a contoured landscape...Cool!

Here I started to look at how text can be used in Cinema 4D. I have used a car paint purple floor with no walls, and the Eurostile font.

Here I was experimenting with the displacement tag - for individual elements rather than as a whole, using the floor as a solid. Using Impact font.

A screen shot from the render showing displaced text.

Another screen shot showing further displacement.

How it looks from the perspective view.

Another rendered screen shot, of the exact image above.

Showing how the text impacts with the solid.

The rendered outcome.

Using a wall.

Settings for video compression.

How Cinema 4D outputs my movie - as a series of .TIFF to be put together in sequence on Quicktime.

Experimenting with a reflective spherical object.

Experimenting with moving the camera with a target tag on the object.