July 11, 2008 by John Dickinson | 9,610 views | Comments (18)
Here’s the last of the 4 Bond teasers for Fox Classics channel. This one took longer than the other three, for obvious reasons. We did a green screen shoot with models then keyed/rotoed the footage and vectorized it using the Adobe Illustrator Live Trace batch feature in Adobe Bridge. All animation was done in Adobe After Effects. To make the spot flow seamlessly, I spent quite a bit of time considering how to transition from one shot to the next, and took special care with the timing of each move to maximize readability but minimize any abrupt motion. Personally I feel it’s a good marriage of the Fox Classics style requirements with the “look” of Bond. Watch movie
18 Responses to this post
July 11, 2008 at 9:54 pm |
Very, very nice. Love the transitions you used. I also felt the type revealing from center really added to the piece as well. Great job. Thanks for sharing.
July 11, 2008 at 11:56 pm |
Very nice! I like It!
July 12, 2008 at 2:44 am |
Amazing! How do you come up with all these ideas? Nice job.
July 12, 2008 at 6:32 am |
I’ll do an eseminar on exactly how I created the look but basically I keyed the footage, cleaned up any difficult areas with masks. Duplicated the layer and keyed the skin out, leaving only the white areas. Rendered this black and white version and batch vectorized using Live Trace via Bridge.
I did a lot of research into the Bond style, watching all of the opening title sequences to the films. This gave me a good overview of the Bond Style.
The “smoke” inside the Bond Girl is Trapcode Form. I’m doing a 90 second promo now that features Form more heavily. I’ll post that next week.
July 12, 2008 at 8:03 am |
A True Broadcast Designer.
This is where you Shine JD… your talent and obvious artistic eye are above the rest
Really Great Job!
July 11, 2008 at 11:09 pm |
Awesome work man! Did you use an alpha traced mask to keep the lines so clean and vector like? As well as setting your tolerance up to make a stark contrast to grab the whites and black? This is absolutely brilliant. I’m glad I’ve found your site recently, really inspiring and fun work!
July 12, 2008 at 2:15 am |
THAT was AWESOME! I think this is the best of all the spots. The transitions were really creative and I like how the oranges and blacks revealed and covered their matching colored animations up. VERY VERY good job… is that form or just a fractal on the chick at the end… ?
July 12, 2008 at 9:08 am |
Masterpiece! I love the Bondish look and the animations fit perfect together, concratulations to your baby
Although it wasn´t your part of the job, one thing I didn´t like was the audio. To me it isn´t the most inspiring Bond theme, and the ending of the song is very abrupt. Is it really like this on TV, or was it just an audiopremix?
July 13, 2008 at 1:33 am |
Awesome! Thanks for the little explanation on how you created such a great effect. I look forward to the tut! Cheers!
July 14, 2008 at 7:37 pm |
A key feature in many of the opening title sequences of the Bond films is fire and water. The “Form” element was used to pay homage to that. Form is used more in the 90 second promo I’m working on at the moment. I’ll post some clips soon.
July 14, 2008 at 9:51 pm |
Great work there, nice and smooth transitions
July 14, 2008 at 4:47 pm |
I like the beginning alot, but i dont quite get why the girl is silhouetted with trapcode form ( maybe I’m missing a bond reference along the way? i dunno maybe its the Grey… maybe i’m being overlly picky.
What I like in particular is the method of dissecting and intersecting the colours and the one layer feel that the beginning has through this use of colour. nice.
July 16, 2008 at 3:04 am |
John, Terrific blend of the Fox needs and the Bond vibe. My fav moment was Timothy Dalton’s cuff-adjustment! I look forward to the e-seminar! ciao, wjm
January 20, 2009 at 11:20 am |
Very nice work … out of curiosity what font did you use for these productions
January 20, 2009 at 3:28 pm |
The font is Swiss924BT.
October 6, 2009 at 1:55 am |
nice. Love it
October 6, 2009 at 2:32 pm |
Thank you Vikash. Best wishes, John.
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