Flower bloom logo reveal, any tips?

[Steve Roberts]

We need to be more specific — think like an effects person, not a client.
What do you want the logo to do?

– unfold in 3 dimensions? (get Forge Freeform (or CS5) or a 3D app)
– undistort in 2 dimensions? (use puppet tool or one of AE’s distortion tools, possibly combined with scale)
– be undistorted, but be revealed by a mask that increases in size and shape (animate a mask, combined with scale)

You might want to do this in parts, where parts of the logo reveal themselves at different rates. You might also want to animate this in one comp, then drop that comp into another and apply Posterize Time to get the stop-motion look. Study timelapse videos of flowers.

Anybody else?

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

The thing about stop motion animation is that the objects are not always perfectly aligned in each frame since they are moved by hand in order to create the impression of movement. Also, the moves are not smooth- they are jerky (see the Fantastic Mr Fox- great movie).
So you need to replicate that in your animation.
Break down your logo in pieces.
Animate using movement/growth in one frame and then pause for 2-3 frames (that will make the object jump from one frame to the next and then stay there a few frames). Slightly rotate pieces also on the frames where there’s movement/growth. Experiment with timing…
Hope that helps.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro

[Claes Lind]

Thanks for all your answers guys!

I kind of solved it through using CC Kaleida, some morphing and the puppet tool, then made some slight adjustments in the position to get the feeling of the stop motion timelapse.