Working on some video branding at the moment. Nice to be involved in the early stages of development. Using glass effects inside After Effects, to fit with the company’s new style guides. Chromatic aberration anyone - oh yes!
Animation job is back on!
Great to be picking up on an animation project that I started earlier in the year. Client has now approved two more storyboards and the green light is on! Should be around two more weeks work. I'll post some vision as and when I can - but it's all NDA at the moment...
THE DESIGN HUTCH SHOWREEL 2017 is LIVE!
The Design Hutch Reel 2017
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And then two come along at once! Two quite different corporate videos to make this week. One is mostly editing in Premiere Pro while the other is lovely floaty type I've animated in After Effects on a fractal noise background (but a nice subtle one of course!)
Water Droplet Animation - tricky!
Tricky brief this one - but a lot of fun! Trying to create a flowing 2D animation of a water droplet. Flowing from scene to scene and developing into shapes as it goes. Hmmm - think I've cracked it after some head scratching! Nice to be working for the guys and girls at 422.TV again.
Infographics for Dock10
It's always a pleasure to turn written information, into something pleasing to the eye. Ended up working on two projects for the guys at Dock10 and very enjoyable it was too. Look forward to working with them again soon!
Corgi Idents
422.TV asked me to animate and composite two sequences for broadcast TV. Featuring the loveable Corgi dog, these are playful, on brand idents, to be shown either side of the London Weekend Weather forecasts. I used After Effects, Illustrator and Particular to bring these scenes to life. The original, static illustrations, were by the very talented Nicola Anderson with whom I have worked a couple of times now.
Curvissa TV Commercial ON AIR!
Pleased to see the TV commercial I created alongside Foundry Film Studio for the fashion label "Curvissa" is now being broadcast. Glad that everyone was so happy with the end result. I really enjoyed working on this project. Looking forward to the next time!
Cineworld Conference Sequence
Really pleased to work for Linney Group again. This time they asked me to create a three minute motion graphics piece for playing at a Cineworld conference. Luckily the brand guidelines has some nice typographic styles that I could manipulate into animated type. Plus the images are all from high end movies, so the raw material was pretty good too!
30 Second TV Commercial commissioned
Really pleased to have been approached by The Gate to create a 30 Second TV Commercial for them. Looks like mostly Motion Graphics, with a touch of Trapcode Particular, a few 3D layers and some nice lighting...
Completed Motion Design work for Linney Group
Just finished a couple of days work for my friends at Linney Group. Glad to have helped out on a cool explainer video, which needed some motion design animation. Nice working with you guys and hope to work with you again soon!
Adobe After Effects 2015.3
OK - so I don't know what has just happened with the latest update of Adobe After Effects - BUT - having just updated to 2015.3 (version 13.8.1) I have got some very weird behaviour. Primarily After Effects is now not correctly seeing the alpha channels of some previously imported .mov files. Just yesterday I was happily using these PNG codec .mov files - with built in alpha channel - and they were working perfectly. But now it is as if they are set to around 10% opacity, which they are not! Plus they have undergone a colour shift towards a kind of ghostly blue. All very strange. SO I have just installed the previous version of 2015 onto my system to try to get back to a version of AE that allows me to use these video clips - especially as I am mid-project! If you have a similar problem and you don't know how to install a previous version, of any Adobe product, using your Creative Cloud subscription, I will write another blog post shortly, explaining how to do that. But right now I have to test my new install to ensure I can render out what my client needs!