Ident 2 - Skydive

For my Second Ident, i wanted to focus on main character of my scenes (once again being the E from the extreme Sports).

I was looking at the best sport that i could show some flare with him, because he has no arms and legs. I also wanted to show his voice and make him more believable as a real character.

Skydiving

I stared thinking about sky diving, this lead me to allot of ideas and how i can show multiple camera angles and show off speed with different sounds and actions on the characters behalf.

This meant that i would not have to make allobate scenes that would take the foucs away from the main character which is really what i wanted to avoid all together and you can get much more simple than a cloudy background.

Backgrounds
As mentioned allot of the scenees were made from clouds and fog effect (in 3DSM) which was qite handy. The plaine was just made of diffrent shapes bent and smoothed with diffrent textures added.

Materials
I used a diffrent host of materials alike with my first ident a mixture of ones collected from the internet and others that i collected and changed in photoshop. As mentioned i also used some fog effects to improve the apperance of the clouds.

Music
I knew i wanted quite dramatic music and pondered on what would fit well i started off with a mission impossible theme but then it sounded really gay so it put me right off instead I was just looking for something with a good beat that would show that the character is enjoying himself and its pumping. I settles on an instrumental versions of blurs song 2 ;)

Animation
For the animation i manily used keyframes and used the reactor for the logo falling through the sky and spalshing in the water. I also used a bomb under the water to make the splash, it does not look as smooth as i would like it but still gives the impression of a crash.

The camera was also animated to help the movment of the scenes. I also added a shake to the camera when the impact happens and without it maes the scene look rather boring.

Voice
Soon as i had decided that i wanted to give my character a voice i knew i wanted it to be quite high and squeaky, like a worms voice or a lemming. I looked for sounds over the Internet and then decided to make my own by recording my voice and my little brothers and changing the settings mainly the pitch to produce the sounds you see in the video.

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So have a look at the finished piece, as mentioned i had allot of issues that i had to overcome and i do prefer the first ident as i think i planned it better but i am still happy with the end result.

!!! Update !!

I decided to add music to my first ident and of all the songs that i could choose only one seemed fitting :D

1st Ident

I have managed to get all my ideas to come together for my first indent, as mentioned in the posts below i wanted to have the logo skateboarding (as an extreme sport.)

I added my own twist to the indent and feel it has worked pretty well.

Watch the video below and ill explain more after



There are a few tweaks that i think need to be done to make it a bit better but for the moment i am rather happy with the result.

Rundown:

The materials that i used were a combination from the web and Photoshop made images. I wanted the main focus to be on the character so i did not add too much complication to the background.
















The sound effects were taken from the console game skate 2, this was really handy as I was able to control the game and make all the diffrent sounds that i required and if you have played the game you will regnoise some of the sounds in my video im sure. I also used some that i download for some previose work to just make it more dramatic.

I am thinking about adding a low level instremental song to see how that pans out if i stumble upon something that i like i will post it on the blog but dont count on it, im very picky!!!

Apart from that everything in the 3d Animation was made out of quite simple shapes and symbols.

The skateboard was the trickyest part as it was not a square and havd to be rounded i managed to accomplish this by taking a square cube and adding loads of points and slowly shaping it round and bending both edges then adding texture and wheels was very simple.

Problems that i came across:

When i initially made the skateboard i started to animate it to do a kickflip (rotation) looked pritty good for my first attempt until i realised the bottom of the desk was not there and went invisible when facing the camera. As this does not happen in real life looked as you can imagine strange and just totally wrong!!

But with a little paitence i made a new deck for the board and it managed to kicflip with ease.


So yer thats my first ident pritty much completed my ideas for the seconds 2 are both locked away in my head but they are going to show of some more skills that i have learnt such as the reactor tool and some funky ideas.

Keep you Posted....