Michael Munkittrick
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I was very close but this makes it perfectly clear. I have been battling with this for a few days and the problem of direction control simply went over my head. I kept thinking sline path, but my organization seems to have been faulty.
Thanks a lot…
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
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That’s pretty close but the look I’m going for is more of the example on the Ayoto(sp?) site. I need hundreds of photos to come from out of view, behind the camera and to zoom passed into an invisible frame that forms a larger image. Ultimately, there are about 400 total images that need to be used to comprise the larer image, but the difficulty has been the fact that the images need to maintain their integrity until they are near the grid where they’ll form the larger image.
We did this the hard way a few years ago for Walgreens Pharmacy, but what I learned from that was that one-by-one keyframing is simply too much work for a job like this.
I deeply appreciate the help and would invite any other ideas that you have as well.
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
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I’m not opposed to a demo video CD, but the majority of people who know lights also know lighting, so my concern is that I’d shoot over someone’s head or just off the people who understand a lighting design like this. I might use something like that as a supplemental piece for interested parties who show a marked interest in the lights, but more as follow-up versus an introduction.
On the other hand, the agency that will be representing the line is based out of California and has some interesting
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That is commonly called rotoscoping and it requires that you will create a new layer of the original shot and draw a mask around your subject. Then, use a frame-by-frame mask modification to keep the mask around that subject allowing for items to appear to pass behind it. It’s a pain if there are a lot of little edges to track, but it looks stellar if done well.
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
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We’re working on something similar, except for a branding piece instead of a DVD project. Here’s what we did.
A.) Take a plain white piece of thin printer paper and get it wet but not soaked.
B.) Remove the paper from the water and let it drip-dry.
C.) Softly crumple the paper into a loose ball, then uncrumple to a reasonable facsimile of the original shape.
D.) Place your paper on a glass or microwave-safe plate and set the ‘wave to high for about 30 seconds. You will need to watch very closely as some waves have the tendency to arc if all of the water disappates.
E.) Remove the paper and use a lighter to add small burn-spots being careful not to go all the way through.
F.) Scan with a flatbed scanner at around 300 DPI and resize to fit in Photoshop.
As an additional step that was pointed out the last time I posted this, one person suggested that adding two or three drops of yellow food coloring and maybe a light wash of red would add a slightly “western” feel, like that of a wanted poster. I’ve done this same technique to come up with everything from old parchment to the “dead-sea” scrolls for our work with Discovery Channel in 2001. It isn’t very time consuming, but it can be a pain in the butt to get the perfect look. Another person said that they got pretty good results by using the reverse of this technique by using plain grocery bags and dipping them in lightly bleached water and simply hang-drying the pieces in the sun. The effect produced good results but looked more like handled paper than weathered paper.
Anyway, have fun and enjoy. If you have a place to upload it, I’ll drop you a very good page that we use once in a while in print work. It’s a full 8.5″ by 11″ sheet, but it looks really good.
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
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The trend is always more work for less money, but the work is getting to be less “cutting-edge” and a lot more stock-like pieces. I’m sure that the market for original work exists at some price point, but the magic number eludes me and the big names that so frequently dominate that scene are pretty well established as the “go-to” guys for major projects. That leaves far too many people like myself on the freelance list or on the outer rim of an industry that we could be very successful in…if we could just get through the press-mess.
In our specific market we have actually seen a slight rise in the going rate of branding and identity work as some of the key players are finding additional monies to attribute to that crucial part of their business livelihood, but the competition is growing at a rate that is incomprehensible and doesn’t match any of the forecast models…go figure. That alone begs the question; why create completely original work for clients five or six times per year when I can create literally hundreds of pieces for clients that are more stock-like and territorially managed? It worked for stock music and the fine folks just down the street at Digital Juice seem to be doing fine, so how do I structure that idea to motion graphics?
Ultimately, there is no “perfect” package for every client and there will never be a one-stop graphics supply house that designs and distributes every single option or idea, but any objective thinker has to assume that the consolidation of the bigger teams huddling around the bug-zapper and creating a near impenetrable bubble for smaller studios accomapnied with the domocratization of desktop creative work treatening the profitability of everyone else, there needs to be an option that allows for a bit of both areas in order to be successful.
I’m just trying to encapsulate a built-to-buy system that will allow clients to review pre-built pieces that emulate ideas and/or philosophies so that we can have a piece of the sometimes lucrative lower-end market. As with all things, true profit is being made in volume work. It goes against many of the pricipals of identity design at the very core, but it is showing up at every turn.
Follw-up with your take on the “stock-identity” game and let me know what you think about the idea on the whole.
Thanks again,
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
Evolve Media SolutionsForum COWmunity leader for:
Sony DV
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Trust me, I made the mistake about a year ago to not get all of the
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That’s pretty much where I’m sitting as far as my portfolio work is concerned, but I got that “sticker shock face” from some folks that I’d have expected to be aware of the cost of the communicated needs of their identity.
I’m taking the initiative to create as many loose pieces as I can and I expect that it work out to the best one way or the other, but the stunned look kind of struck me odd. I might have overshot it a bit, but then again I do good work and I ask a competitive, if not a tiny bit exorbitant with respect to overages rate that has never garnered this type of “icky” feeling.
Thanks for the input and cross your fingers.
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
Evolve Media SolutionsForum COWmunity leader for:
Sony DV
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Essentially, the tree is used for organizational hierarchy and structural order within complex projects. It
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As a point of interest, and information just for those who were not there, Adobe DID show what was the CS2 family at the MacDesign Photographers Convention in Tampa. The gentleman onsite who is in the employ of Adobe Systems spoke pretty candidly with AE users about what the next version will, or more importantly will not have, but obviously there was still a bit of “hush” of what the coming release will hold for the Adobe faithful.
This is not confidential information and there is little in the way of secrets on the part of the Adobe staff and there are no NDA agreements being breached.
Tomorrow, there is to be some further discussion and Q&A from the Adobe folks. You’ve got to hand it to them. Their users speak and they listen, and well.
I’ll update tomorrow after the show.
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
Evolve Media SolutionsForum COWmunity leader for:
Sony DV
Magic Bullet