[David Pritchett]

Just got back from Mississippi! Great comments, folks. I agree with -all- of them! The project has already been submitted.. but, I may just go ahead and try to perfect the thing anyhow! 🙂 If I do.. I’ll repost and see what you folks think!

Steve! I actually went to a Toronto AE meeting a few years back! It was great… but, I lost track of things and didn’t return. I am certainly interested now though. I’ll be in touch.

Shayder! Good suggestion on the flapping of the wings. My original idea was to create a fully animated butterfly.. but.. I ran out of time. What is currently in the animation was a definite compromise.

Aharon! 3D assistants! I’ve heard of them.. but, I didn’t think of them when I made this project! AWW! Alas.. I distributed them all by hand. I suspect any distribution that had been done automatically by the 3D assistants would have required some heavy tweaking! I’m going to check it out though!

Thanks again guys.

David

[David Pritchett]

Wow guys! The level of the constructive criticism in here is just fantastic.

Steve. Excellent comments and suggestions. Every single one. You’re right. The animation does show a certain lack of planning as far as focal points are concerned. It’s something that could definitely improve things. If there was time and budget for a V2 of this animation.. I would spend the majority of my time in this area.

Originally EVERY frame was to have some content. Now.. when I actually tried this out it turned out to be a disorganized mess. The eye didn’t know where to go! So.. I stripped most of them out again. I think I could have made it work with content in every frame.. but it would have taken a lot of reorganization and re-positioning of elements. And.. I kinda like it now with most of the frames being empty. BUT.. I agree though.. a few more of the boxes could use content.. unfortunately, lack of time reared it’s ugly head.

Finally.. the frames that have motion content -are- distracting. Especially the waterfall one. It also just feels out of place. I wish I had taken that one out. I tried to move the frames that had motion content in them far enough back so that they’d be blurred out… but, it didn’t help (enough). The motion frames should have been larger, and more the main focal point.. if even for a short amount of time.

And on a personal note. Where do you play squash? I’m in Toronto as well. I play at the Northridge Squash Club in North York!

[David Pritchett]

Thanks very much for your comments, guys!

Andrew – Definitely! I am going to send out a final render overnight to extend the end title. That was bugging me as well! BTW, I have gone through your entire website.. Really great tutorials! I am going to blow up my own head!!

Mylenium – I agree! Whole-heartedly! Before the banners and animation were designed.. the font had already been selected. So, while it looked great in the application that it had initally been used for… It didn’t work well with what I came up with. To me, it looks more like a horror font.. But, unfortunately, there’s no changing it at this point. And.. again.. Love your tutorials! Both the AFX and the Cinema4D!

Thanks again, guys.

.david

[David Pritchett]

I should also mention .. that the original inspiration for this style was inspired by the opening credits of the television show “Huff”.