Help needed creating futuristic computer Interfaces/ screens

[Mike Clasby]

I like this guy’s interface stuff:

https://www.lyzrdstomp.com/

Click on tutorials, and scroll WAYYY down (stuff down low on my screen) there’s about 6 or so on interfaces, here’s another example:

sci-fi computer screens.

https://www.lyzrdstomp.com/tutorial_vidscreen/

[Mike Clasby]

Have you seen this new tut below:Date: Jan 26, 2006 at 7:19:46 pm
Subject: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Glass Globe

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=869642

I think I might creat an interface on that glass sphere, maybe without it rotating, until it had to do a super-duper future calculation. Just a thought.

[Mike Smith]

I guess the first step is to imagine the future world you’re creating, and how people might interface with machines in it … and to try to do this afresh rather than to copy some other movie’s “take” on it.

Then animate (or pysically build) that … whatever it might be. Do you think physical contact will be necessary …

HAL’s voice activation seemed to work for Kubrick, and Woody Allen’s pleasure cube had its moments … so what can you come up with that’s fresh?

[Steve Roberts]

For some creative examples:
https://www.coleran.com/Portfolio/portfolio_select/pfdisplays/pf_displays_menu.html
For some tech info:
https://www.levelproductions.com/index.html

At a seminar, Mark said that he used the Quicktime graphics codec for fast playback. It’s 256 colours, which plays fast and works fine for clean graphic displays with solid colours.

If I recall, on set the crew triggered the playback of the different movies through Macromedia Director (maybe), watching the actors push the buttons and matching their timing when necessary. A slight delay was acceptable, certainly better than having an actor push the wrong button in the excitement of a take.

Trivia: the James Bond floor display map originally showed a dramatic zoom into each continent, but the zoom had to be dropped as it made the actors (standing on the map) queasy.

Hope that helps,
Steve

[Thehardmenpath]

Here’s a link to Coleran’s work you can scrutinize.

https://homepage.mac.com/mcoleran/

I found it at Steve Kilisky’s AE blog.

[Scott Whitehead]

Here is a link to a site for some inspiration as far as screen graphics go. They did a lot of screens for Star Wars Episode 1 and many others.

https://www.teknoel.com/

Click on “design” and then “screen graphics”.

Scott Whitehead