Do I need 3d Invigorator?

[Christian Remde]

I use Cinema 4D and 3D Invigorator…just depends what I need to do. If it’s something quick and fast with some text or a logo, then I’ll stay in AE and use Invigorator, if it’s more complex or requires more control over the environment, lights or textures, then I’ll go to Cinema 4D. They both have their use and I end up using at least one of them on virtually every job I do in some way…

Christian Remde
https://www.christianremde.com

[Dario]

Hi Christian, thanks.
Cool reel by the way!

[Mark Landsburger]

Christian: Just a quick note I’d throw your way. Your reel is nice, but it would be better if you cut about 30 seconds from it. We all tend to want to show as much of our work as possible, but you’re letting each spot play too long. Cut it down a bit which will pick up the pace, add some mystery, and improve it.

Hope you don’t mind the advice. You were nice enough to help with the post, so I thought I’d try and help too.

Take care
LB

[Christian Remde]

Thanks for the tip…yeah, I’m totally one of those people who’s in love with his stuff and so I like to let it run…I’m actually thinking of handing it over to a friend of mine who is also an editor to go through and do a fine-cut with the mandate to cut 20-30 seconds from it.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I always have a harder time cutting my own reel than someone else’s…I guess the footage is too precious to me, but not to someone else who is just looking to get the best finished product…

Thanks,

Christian Remde
https://www.christianremde.com

[Mark Landsburger]

It’s the hardest thing to do. I’m in the middle of a big project where I started with too much of these very cool effects I shot and edited, but I just loved them so much. I now have cut about 20 seconds from it and it plays so much better (but it was hard to get me to go there).

Good luck – and good work.

[Chris Smith]

Christian may I ask you:

1. How you did you do the flipping cards that make up your reel open.

2. How did you approached the floating screens that converge to form the house shape.

Please be as technical as you wish. Thx.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Christian Remde]

Actually, both effects were pretty similar…

For the flipping cards intro I created a square in AI and brought it into AE. I also created a square with each of the letters/numbers that I would need for my name, phone, email, etc. in it. I created a long row of empty squares in 3D space and then duplicated them over and over creating a wall of empty squares. In order to keep track of all of the rows, I made the layers each have a different color label.

Then I replaced the appropriate squares with the squares that had the letters/numbers that spelled out my name, phone, etc. I duplicated those squares and replaced the duplicate with an empty square which I placed behind the square with the letter on it and moved it back in z-space .05 pixels.

I then parented the empty square to the square with the letter on it so when I rotated the square with the letter, the back had an empty square…I set up a camera to fly over them and animated the rotation at the right time…all in all, it took me about 5-6 hours to set the whole thing up.

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The house was set up pretty much the same. I created a pre-comp with a square and running video in it (using a simple matte)…I think there were about 250 of them total that made up the house. I then placed them all in 3D space and moved them around to create the shape of the house.

I animated the camera move first and then keyframed the boxes to move in z-space back past the camera…I went through and varied the speed of the frames flying in and the timing so they didn’t all fly in at once…the logo was done with Zaxwerks Invigorator and Trapcode Starglow.

This took a lot longer to set up as all those squares with video in them made the comp really slow. I’d say it took me about 14-15 hours to set up the whole comp.

Hope that answers your questions, feel free to ask more…

Christian Remde
https://www.christianremde.com

[Jeff Herring]

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[Jeff Herring]

I thought you used card wipe to do those…

Diffrent question for you Chirstian.
The flyby of the football field, for your NFL Films. Did you make that field and lights (if so was it all in AE or something else?) or was the field stock and you added the clips and font?

[Christian Remde]

No, didn’t use cardwipe…did it the old-fashioned way I guess…

Christian Remde
https://www.christianremde.com