Top 10 - 'Chuck' title sequence

Though essentially the same idea, there is one major difference between the animation here and my own - the stickman below moves in a 3D space, as he is a 3-dimensional character. His legs are cylinders not just flat shapes. This is something I would have loved to create for my own character, though I have no idea how I might've gone about it. I assume a different piece of software would've been necessary. Anyway, though I'm not a huge fan of the execution of this video, but the fact the the character moves in a 3D environment brings an extra dimension to the piece, and enhances the video as a whole.

Top 10 - Change of Brief

So this is where the change of brief has lead me. The sequence tells a story as the two characters chase their way around an ever changing series of events and circumstances. I would like to achieve something similar within my own work.

Movie Season - Platform

Not really relevant to any of my design decisions, but I've decided on the channel to host my zombie movie season. Living Tv has a very varied audience, all tuning in for one thing it seems, to see Yvette Fielding scare the living hell out of herself in Most Haunted.

Though my idents seek to bring an air of comedy to a usually terrifying genre, I still think this channel offers the best range of potentially interested viewers. Plus, the logo offers a good range of possibilities when it comes to incorporating it into my own designs and the name brings another edge of black humor.

Anyway, I thought I'd post the idents as I've always liked them, and I found out that there are no digital effects included in them (except maybe touch ups) . The idents were created by blasting fire or smoke through a steel stencil. Amazing!

Movie Season - Visual Material

Still trying to figure out an appropriate range of visual material to work with, I began to thing of a few of the elements in the films that I found particularly scary or funny, something that made an impression. I think official documents have a particularly unnerving feel to them, especially newspapers. The idea that a newspaper might print a headline announcing a zombie attack makes the threat seem real.. and what if I applied this to a standard daily tabloid like The Sun?

I could take this idea down either route, either funny or serious.

After a bit of research I came across this image,

Which straight away reminded me of the Eurotrip title sequence...

Though I've seen this many times before, I hadn't considered using it in my own work until now.

I think this is the best approach to my chosen movie season, giving it an edge of black comedy and setting it apart

from the work of others. Brilliant.

Christmas Idents

These have been going for a few years now, always thought they were beautiful. It's nice to have a better understanding of how these might have been achieved after the After Effects sessions from previous weeks. There's a touch of Tim Burton to this one! (BBC TWO)



Another selection of idents recognised from previous years. These are 2 - 3 second long 'break bumpers' used between adverts, same purpose as a regular ident, just shorter. (ITV 1)

Mind.tv Ident

MiND ID: Folding Paper - Early Version from Kristy Graybill on Vimeo.

Spin on this.

London based design agency Spin, has given a new injection of life into this project, which for me seems to have died before it began! My chosen word 'FOLD' has a lot of potential with regard to motion graphics, more so than the other words I had to begin with. These lovely editorial pieces showcase some of the work Spin has produced, but also give a lovely insight into the way paper folds.

This alone has inspired me to take a new direction with the current project, however, I also took a look at their showreel (which you can find at the link above) and found this folding logo piece for DMAX.

This is exactly what I had in mind initially for my project, and gives me something to aim for in tomorrow's After Effects tutorial.