Peter Greenstone
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Please have the courtesy of providing some sort of details in your question. There are all sorts of things going on in that image. There are reflections, shadows, beveling, lighting, and other things all in there.
What exactly do you want to know how to do?
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It looks entirely 2D to me. Nothing in there actually rotates. It’s all done by sliding the parts around on separate and grouped layers in a way that gives the illusion of rotation, but it’s actually quite simple.
The only parts that do more than just move in X and Y are the eyes that swap out between several pre-made expressions an the mouth that also swaps out pre-made expressions and which also does a little scale during the last grin.
With the art elements this particular animation could be done in AE with no 3D tools or anything too fancy. Just need a good eye.
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What are you looking for exactly? What sound effect? There is a whole rock band playing in this, making all sorts of sounds. You need to be a LOT more specific about what sound you are referring to in this video and what sort of sound you want to find.
The only sound I hear in there that is not part of the music is that wooshing sound that goes with the graphics, but it doesn’t sound anything like a high tuned guitar chord. Is that what you’re talking about?
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Actually, I’m not very familiar with Invigorator (just saw your mention of it) so I don’t know of its limitations or if it can recreate the types of 3D effects used in those examples of not. Maybe it can and you just need to either find tutorials for that tool specifically, or just practice with it some more.
Explaining a bit more about what part is giving you trouble with creating the look you want would help people come up with more helpful suggestions. Maybe post a video or still of an example you are trying to replicate along with a sample of what you have created.
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You ask for extremely broad information on something that really requires a lot of different developed skills and that can be approached in a lot of different ways. There’s designing the logo and then there’s taking a logo and creating some kind of animation with it such as the NBC tag; usually not the same thing. But I can tell you that if you want to create animated logos like the ones you have described then you need to be working in 3D. You can design it however you want; pencil and paper works for that, but to actually create something like the following…
To do that you need to be working in 3D. Obviously, a lot can be done in 2D and After Effects kind of faked 3D but things like the the example above and other flying logos with extruded text and shapes moving through space with metallic sheen and reflections and complex shadows are done in 3D.
I don’t know of any tutorials that will teach you all of what goes into all of that. What you ask for would cover so many different things from traditional graphic design concepts, to techniques with various tools in 2D and 3D, covering modeling, lighting, rendering, compositing. There is information out there to help you will all of these different areas but you will have to narrow your query down significantly when asking for help or advice, otherwise you’re just asking how to get to Carnegie Hall.
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You can blow up the SD image to HD but it will never be HD quality. You are starting with only a certain number of pixels of information. Plus, in order to make it fit into 16:9 you have to actually crop out a good chunk of the vertical image, so in the end you’d really have less than you had at SD; it would merely be formatted to fit the HD screen, which I guess is the best you can do working with SD material.
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Thanks. That’s very good to know. I had no idea. Studios over there are always demanding that demo reels be in PAL so I just assumed it really had to be.
Do you know if it fits it pixel to pixel or stretches it to fit?
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The code and the PAL/NTSC formats are two different things. The region code on commercial DVDs is an anti-pirating thing. But there are fundamental differences between PAL and NTSC. Different resolutions, pixel aspect ratios, and frame rates. You’ll need to convert your NTSC video to PAL for it to play on a PAL screen.
I’ve had to do it a number of times but I bet there are a lot of people here who know a lot better than I the best method of converting it so that it looks its best. I’m sure one of them will chime in.
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There’s nothing particularly special about it. In the show when the character teleports he simply disappears and appears. No fancy flash of light or particles or and kind of effect at all other than sound. It’s just basic compositing. Shoot him on a blue screen and comp that footage with the scene he’s supposed to be in.
Either that or the show is all real and Hiro uses his special powers to do it.
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Are you asking how to fit HD (16:9) video into a Standard Definition (4:3) without letterboxing it? If so, then what you want to do is basically “pan and scan”; you scale the video to fit the vertical size of the 4:3 NTSC image and allow the original imagery to fall off screen to the sides. To correct the composition of the image as best as possible the position of the video image is animated to the left or right to make sure the most important parts of the shot remain on screen.
This is done all the time to fit films to standard video resolution without using letterboxing. But just to be clear because so many people miss this: letterboxing is not cropping into or covering up the image. It’s the empty space left when fitting an entire wide image into a more square frame. So, it’s not about “removing” the letterboxing; it’s about zooming into the original image so it fits the whole screen top to bottom, sacrificing (removing) parts of the image composition on the sides.
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