Transition Effect?

[Greg Neumayer]

(Anyone reading this: the reel is at https://www.antifreezedesign.com. Thoughts or improvements appreciated.)

Hey los,
Thanks for the props. Yeah, the shot across the courtyard into the painting (“Behold the Man”) was all done in Maya. I started by disassembling the painting and re-painting the backgrounds of everything that would show when the camera started to move, like the columns on the background building. That took a lot of photoshop work. Then, I set up my camera in the exact spot where everything lines up like the original painting. From there, I projected the images from the camera’s point of view on to some simple geometry. The people are all individual cards with the illustrator’s drawings projected on them. There are about 10 different characters duplicated to be about 300 people. After getting my official end point made, I pushed the camera back through the scene and flew it in reverse to get the flyover. Although there is volumetric dust in the maya scene, a lot of the extra lighting is done in AE with trapcode’s shine, and Knoll’s lens flare. The transition to the live-action shot is also composited in AE.

On wiggle, yeah, I add that in a lot of places. For the basketball shot I showed you, I added wiggle to a null layer, then added that wiggle amount to each of the text layers. You may notice that they all wiggle the same, but with decreasing intensity. After adding the null’s wiggle amount to my position, I multiplied the whole thing by .8, .6, and .4, respectively for each layer, to get the decreasing yet synchronized amounts. Gives it a fun “tugging in the wind” sort of look. If expressions are new to you, I can walk you through that.

My favorite use of expressions has probably been in the “Taco Mayo” commerical with the fake puppet theater look. I used it on almost everything to simulate objects on strings and propped up by sticks. Some of the text also uses Zaxworks’ Invigorator to get true depth.

For camera panning, and specific to the “Abstinence first” logo, there is no camera, which simplifies the whole process. It’s just a large comp that I slid around under the comp window.

The “greek temple” was built and rendered in Maya.

-Greg

p.s. go ahead and shoot me your IM, and I’ll send you mine. I’m often turned off unless I’m specifically trading images with someone, because I get sooooooo distracted by it!
greg@antifreezemotiongraphics.com

Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com