Tag: Logo Animation

Animated Text with Trapcode Tao

Starting with the Arial font I traced each letter with a point light to create a path for the Trapcode Tao plug-in. Each letter and number has it’s own comp, so I could drag the letters into another comp to create words. Duplicating the letters and offsetting them I time-reverse the layers to create a …

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Character from Logo

I created a character from my logo in Adobe Illustrator and animated the eyes, ears, hair, and mouth in Adobe After Effects. I was going to add hands and feet but decided that it looked weird.

Showreel 5

This is my 5th Showreel and includes clips from –     Personal projects     Short film     Future Pro Wrestling (FPW) (DVD menu animation)     This is Progress (Wrestler entrance animations). Software used – Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Photoshop.  Plugins used -Trapcode Plugins and Element 3D 3D models that are not …

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Inflating Logo

Inflating Logo using Trapcode Tao with animated Tao lights with a small amount of fractal displacement.  RedGiant Universe Glo Fi was used for the Designs word of the logo.  

Music and Animations

Here is some original music made by Jake South titled Poly-Tune with animations in time to the music.  I used Trapcode Sound Keys to generate key frames to drive some of the values of the plug-ins Trapcode Tao, Trapcode Mir, and Element 3D.  

My 100th Video on YouTube

This is my 100th Video uploaded to YouTube.   My first video I uploaded was the Mini Bond short film in 2009, which has so far been viewed 1,403 times. My top 5 most viewed videos so far are – 1 – Avengers Tesseract Cube Tutorial 2 – Element 3D Transitions Tutorial 3 – Lights …

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Retro Logo Animation

A retro logo animation with Element 3D.  The mountains in the background are done with Trapcode Mir and the stars with Trapcode Form.  The Tron Light Cycle was made in 3DS Max and it’s light trail is made with Trapcode Particular.  The TV model is from The Pixel Labs free Vintage pack  which was imported …

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Cube Logo Animation

An animated OBJ cube from the BlockU pack was used to form the main cube.  Trapcode Particular with the Rounded Cubes preset was used as the background.  Sound effects are from Motion Pulse. Here are some other cube logos that I played around with.

Pin Art Logo Animation

Animation based on the Pin Art toy.  Element 3D was used to model the toy and the animation engine to reveal my JEH Logo with the pins.  CC Ball Action was used to create the mask shapes for the pins in Element 3D.

Boxes

Too much packaging! A simple box animation using 3D solids in After Effects.  The solids are parented to each other so that they could be animated as if the boxes were opening.