3d Logo Animation

[.soulty]

Hey all

Been a while since i shown you guys/ girls something that i have created, here is something that is in WIP.

A logo animation created in maya and composed in after effects, still alot of work to be done, been delayed because of clients works taking priority.

Tell me what you think.

:: things that are going to be added are, flashes of white during logo electric/static animation occurs.

:: sound effects to amplify the effect of the bolts dropping. might be adding some zoom blur and masking to that effect as well.

:: static logo animation at the end, after logo is animated there will be a animation to a washed out white , where the static logo will be which be the end of the animation.

www.soultydesign.com/logotrial.zip

::: file is compressed with DIV-X 5.0.5

[DDD]

not bad man. If I can be scrutinous it looks like it is a lil plasticy instead of like metal. But that is just being over scrutinous. Looks good. Is it hard to use after effects? Have not done much with it. ::thumbs up::

[Coolidge]

I think it looks pretty good so far!

If I may offer a suggestion, I would like to see a more appealing camera movement and or angles. Other than that, it looks very good.

Cheers!:azn:

[.soulty]

thanks dude, not sure if i was going for that metal look with the logo, just 3d version of the logo, i see what you mean though. I did that render a long time ago, might re-render it with less specular and a better material. Been ages since i have used maya or any 3d software, gotta give clients priority *cash* *cash* brings the *bling* *bling*. :smirk:

:: After effects is not too hard to use. I've used combustion and aftereffects and found that after effects was easier, probably because i have used it more, but i found it was more user friendly, easy to control effects and keyframe.

Though combustions 2d particle sprites are amazing !!! I mean you gotta see it to believe it.

All in all after effects is a nice place to start if you havent had any compositing experience before.

There are many tutorials for after effects so that always helps out.

[.soulty]

thanks coolidge

yeah might look into the camera angle and movement , i have kinda based it on my story board i have drawn. but might add some dynamic angles to boost the energy of the movement to show speed as well, i do feel its kinda sluggish at the moment.

thanks for your suggestion.

[mlk]

pretty cool animation you've got there, and I agree it should look more like metal

and I don't really like the ending with the logo with the image underneath - maybe a simple black & white logo would be better...

[.soulty]

thanks mlk , the ending was not suppose to be like that, i mentioned it on my first post.

:: static logo animation at the end, after logo is animated there will be a animation to a washed out white , where the static logo will be which be the end of the animation.

but anywaz , i made up my mind, will be starting again. probably use the same concept , but introduce better camera angles, better materials on the 3d render and more animated backgrounds, i 'm looking for that tv presentation logo look, something that you would see at the start of a super bowl, but that might be too hardcore to do with the time i have, I have the idea in my head, so thats a good start.

*back to the drawing board* :)

the new one should look much better, give me a few months though, lol --- I'll post my progress if i get time to. thanks for the suggestions.

:)
soulty :smirk:

[DDD]

hey soulty if you know where a really good tut is on After Effects (that you would recommend) let me know. I have been long wanting to do some tv type stuff with some of my models

[.soulty]

Yeah sure, there are forums at 3d buzz under compositing in the forums, sometimes some links to tutorials pop up there.

A very good one is Creative Cow

http://www.creativecow.net/index.php?forumid=1

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/aftereffects.html

I'm reading up the one at the moment on expressions in After effect 6.


Digital- tutors is another good one,

http://www.digital-tutors.com/digital_tutors/afterEffects/main_menu/index.htm

It has a few beginner tutorials (all .mov) so you can get the basics down. (Highly recommended)

[DDD]

thanks man

[Digitalosophy]

yup thanx bro

[kei]

hey nice animation :)
i think it'll be cool if light shines through the inside of the logo!

[.soulty]

you know kei i had the same thought , was going to do that while that electric/static thing was happening to have flashing white (light) shinning through the logo, but as i said before , before i go further im going to go back and start again, will keep that in mind for the updated one. thanks on the comment :)

[kei]

cool cant wait to see the final animation :)