Tuesday
Aug242010
Caged Insider: Introduction Video Proof of Concept and Breakdown
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 3:36PM
I completed a motion graphics intro for someone I work with who runs an MMA website called Caged Insider. He asked me for "something cool" (the one thing every designer wants to hear). I decided to go with the cage theme of fighters in a cage and I used the site's logo breaking free of the cage to go with that.
At first I went with an attack dog motif where the logo barked and snarled while trying to break free but he didn't want to associate MMA with Michael Vick. So ixnay on the ogday. But I kept the same feel for the rest of the piece. The camera is animated cinema verité style where its the POV of the viewer. You can check it out below. Read along after the video for a breakdown of the piece.
Breakdown
The brunt of the work was done in Cinema 4D. I built the logo from vectors provided by the client and then built the stage. I had two major road blocks on this portion. The first one was the use of a dynamic swinging lamp. I wanted a lamp swinging back and forth in the scene. I tried to hand animate a lamp but it just didn't work. Then I tried building a chain with help that I got from Nick Campbell aka Greyscale Gorilla but the weight of the lamp didn't interact well with the chain. I ended up building a rig that uses Mograph 2, more specifically Modynamics. You can check out the lamp at C4D Cafe.
The second problem I had was getting the logo to burst through the fence. I originally opted for the Cloth module but again, I couldn't get the right feel for it. The pieces just wouldn't react the way I wanted them too. So again, I went with Mograph 2 and it's MoDyn feature. I attached an invisible block to the logo so that when it collided with the fence, the precut pieces would fly off and the logo would burst through the fence. Of course, this happens over the course of 3 frames or 1/8 of a second so you can barely tell that it happens.
After the piece was rendered out, I brought it into After Effects and finalized it. I ran it through the gamut of color correction and added in a nice lens flare to punch it up, courtesy of Video Copilot.
Thanks for reading and please free to comment below. If you have any questions, you may contact me.
At first I went with an attack dog motif where the logo barked and snarled while trying to break free but he didn't want to associate MMA with Michael Vick. So ixnay on the ogday. But I kept the same feel for the rest of the piece. The camera is animated cinema verité style where its the POV of the viewer. You can check it out below. Read along after the video for a breakdown of the piece.
Caged Insider Intro from Jordan Montreuil on Vimeo.
The brunt of the work was done in Cinema 4D. I built the logo from vectors provided by the client and then built the stage. I had two major road blocks on this portion. The first one was the use of a dynamic swinging lamp. I wanted a lamp swinging back and forth in the scene. I tried to hand animate a lamp but it just didn't work. Then I tried building a chain with help that I got from Nick Campbell aka Greyscale Gorilla but the weight of the lamp didn't interact well with the chain. I ended up building a rig that uses Mograph 2, more specifically Modynamics. You can check out the lamp at C4D Cafe.
The second problem I had was getting the logo to burst through the fence. I originally opted for the Cloth module but again, I couldn't get the right feel for it. The pieces just wouldn't react the way I wanted them too. So again, I went with Mograph 2 and it's MoDyn feature. I attached an invisible block to the logo so that when it collided with the fence, the precut pieces would fly off and the logo would burst through the fence. Of course, this happens over the course of 3 frames or 1/8 of a second so you can barely tell that it happens.
After the piece was rendered out, I brought it into After Effects and finalized it. I ran it through the gamut of color correction and added in a nice lens flare to punch it up, courtesy of Video Copilot.
Thanks for reading and please free to comment below. If you have any questions, you may contact me.
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