Muse Update 2

Over the last few weeks i have been very busy with the 2D title sequence which involves one fully animated sequence duplicated at various points to create a full fly cycle. This cycle was so well recieved that another was created (in pink rather than blue) to compliment it.

the basic blast is below (minus the duplications which were finished for the final edit in after effects).




Here is an example of the bird colour scheme in pink: -

All the main edits of the lettering animation are unavailable for blogging as Dave wants to keep the final cuts under wraps until the final film is complete. There have been a few changes to the original tests i did. They are as follows: -

The quack? sequence was rescaled to fit the HD cut with little or minimal changes made to size and scale of the letters.

The Waa sequence was completely redone however.The text had to be rescaled, moved into a diagonal tangent and positioned so that the word fit across the screen but more artistically than before. We used drop shadow to crate a letter shadow across the character but applied a mask so it only cast shadow across the area of the character it passed rather than the whole scene. All the 'A's in the WAA had to be redesigned and reversed so that the brown 3d depth was cast in the opposite direction. once this was completed we created a dissolve effect using coloured fractal noise to make the word disappear near the end of the scene.

The second waa scene was animated directly onto the final cut of the film and featured multiple A's flooding out of the poets mouth onto his book and beyond. Having completed this scene we realised to keep the continuity of the film the previous scene (described in length above) needed to be reworked to accomodate the new speed of the text. d'oh!

As mentioned before these cuts are unavailable for blogging as Dave wants to keep the content censored until the film is complete.