Monday, May 17, 2010

Brainstorming


As part of the generating ideas process, i did some brainstorming on what kind of themes and objects that related to the movie, for the starting point of my project (Inspiration).

Taking the best ideas and taking it to the next level.

Catch Me If You Can - Title Sequence


This opening title of "Catch me if you can"
movie has many interesting design principles that i would like to use for my own project, the title sequence itself is echoing on what the story of the movie itself, taking many iconic objects and turned it into a more simplistic graphic. Simple graphics but yet interesting graphics enhance the movie title sequence. Both Typography and the graphics are the most focus aspect of this title sequence.

Another point from this sequence is the character design, the characters are design very stylistic and simple, with just silhouette and simple movement. The character design has been made so it is suitable into the environment itself. With the limitations of 2D point of view and limited colours the designer has been successfully made an excellent motion graphics.

Lastly, is the transition animation, using extended lines for the camera to follow it made a dynamic transition within one composition to another.

Video Link

Project Timeline



Project time line of the project 1st semester. The timeline is showing all of the tasks within the 13 weeks in semester one of 2010

Project Brief - Objectives

In this one year movie title sequence project, i will produce motion graphics no longer than 2 minutes. The project will include all of the working files and working progress of the project.

At the end of this year the project will outcome :

- Opening Title Sequence
- Closing Title Sequence
- DVD cover Design of the movie
- Document supporting the project

Specifications:

- Both of the Animation will be made in High Definition Resolution (1080)
- Playable DVD with the animation put together with the movie.
- Printed documentation

Sunday, May 16, 2010

A Film for Title Sequence - CUT




Found a movie that needed a title sequence to put on, its a film from a local film maker titled "Cut". A film by Cameron Rose (Monash's Art & Design Multimedia Lecturer). Its a short film (7 min), that only has a basic closing title sequence. Since the director itself is an acquaintance of mine, getting materials of the film should not be a problem for this project.(Script, etc)

After watching the movie and analyzing the theme of the movie, in my opinion, making a graphical closing title sequence for the movie with my current style would be appropriate.

The story is from Greg's point of view (the protagonist), he is currently separated with his wife for anonymous reason. Then he is having an affair without telling that he is married himself, that later got caught.

Links

Found some link for motion graphics - related inspiration


mk12

prologue
motionspire
motionographer
The art of the title


more coming

Motion Graphic Designer - Prologue

There are several design companies that focusing on motion graphics industries, two of them that catches my inspiration are MK 12 and Prologue, those two design firms have sets industry standard especially in moving image and movie title sequence.



There are two designers that stand out among of all, Kyle Cooper (the founder of Prologue) and Danny Yount (which is under prologue as well), these guys made The incredible Hulk, Spiderman 3, Kiss kiss bang bang, rockankrolla, ironman title sequence.