Tuesday, 10 February 2009

I have decided to create an ident for the Paramount Comedy channel.

I chose this channel as it is one that i frequently watch and has a broad spectrum for what could be used as an ident.

I will start looking at ideas and sketch some concepts to help get towards a final design,

Here is an example of the paramount idents:


Camera Paths and Morphing

We started off today by learning how to morph basic low poly models. For this i used a simple box shape. By making copies of the model we were able to make separate animations which we could than all to the initial design. I then used turbosmoothing to make the object more rounded. Once i had done this the morphs were applied in key frames. I added boxes to be skyscrapers and then used the camera tool to create a video view. A line spline was drawn first and the camera applied to follow this path. These videos show the morphing process and then the camera path: