The first of the Unplugged Titles challenge entries have begun to trickle in. Click the images below to watch the movies, and remember to get your entry in by December 1st for the chance to have your work featured in Unplugged and tell the world about yourself on the show! Great work so far guys!
David Kwasnik
Kevin Snyder
Brett
The Foundry has released 3D Camera Tracker and Kronos, two exciting new plug-ins for Adobe After Effects.
Alexander of Amateurmedia.net has created a stylish new font named Typograph Pro. Also check some of the great usage examples created within Cinema 4D.
Red Giant Software has released Colorista 2, with some exciting new features and improvements. Use motionworks10 for a 1o% discount.
Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.
Industrial Light and Magic has a new site. It’s quite amazing just how many productions ILM has been involved in.
Urban Dirty has terrific free grunge stock images and also provides color themes for various images with a downloadable .ASE file. You can import the .ASE file into After Effects using Swatch You Want.
19 Responses to this post
November 25, 2009 at 12:00 am |
Nice work
November 25, 2009 at 1:36 am |
Nice work guys
November 25, 2009 at 4:52 am |
Nice work, but they don’t fit John’s style or what the show is about.
The ideal opening should compliment the series.
Still, nice effort.
Best,
J
November 25, 2009 at 5:03 am |
Nice Work!
November 25, 2009 at 7:14 am |
I agree with James Wicks. And I would also use these grey-blue color from this website.
November 25, 2009 at 11:12 am |
Any chance of deadline be extended?
Thanks!
Telli
November 25, 2009 at 2:26 pm |
The exciting thing about this challenge is everyone gets to give their interpretation of Unplugged. I’m looking forward to seeing your entries James and Designiac! Best, John
November 26, 2009 at 7:23 am |
Wow, Kevin Snyder’s is perfect. Clean, simple and comprehensive.
Snyder – did you use the shatter effect to extrude your text? If so how do you get the audio keyframes to only push from the bottom up? I’m suspecting you may have used a third party ad on but if it can be done within AE I would love to get a hint. : -)
They are all good so far. Awesome!
I could not come up with a good idea. I suppose there is still time. I will link you to the one where I did not follow the guidlines at all.
November 26, 2009 at 9:39 am |
Hey Jim, I think Snyder’s video was made in a 3D package in my opinion. Because I dont think its would be possible link the audio to the shatter effect to extrude the text from the audio. And plus I see there is a reflection map on the text, which I dont think you can do in the shatter effect in After Effects.
November 26, 2009 at 2:25 pm |
Robert mentioned he used Trapcode Soundkeys and Cinema 4D… an intriguing combination!
November 26, 2009 at 4:48 pm |
Yeah, wishful thinking on my part. LOL
I’ve hooked up the Shatter extrude property to audio keyframes and gotten a nice 3D effect while animating the shatter effect camera. Still it only extrudes from the center and not on a per character basis. If you reduce the opacity on the texture of the side and fiddle with the material options you can get a semi-reflective effect. Nothing as clean as what you get in a 3D program. Plus you can’t stroke the characters.
BTW – really nice entry David.
November 28, 2009 at 2:37 am |
Thanks for the information Jim.
November 26, 2009 at 7:26 am |
Also, Akseli Tuomivaara – spectacular!
Seriously, all of them are great.
Rock on!
November 26, 2009 at 7:43 am |
Nice work folks
I have not got a hope! I’m no 3d artist so I have just had to stick with after effects so expect plenty o’ wiggle expressions, screening blend mode, and flat font :p
Expect mine in tommorrow JD
Best
Alex
November 26, 2009 at 2:23 pm |
3D doesn’t necessarily mean it will win Alex! I’m looking forward to seeing your efforts.
November 26, 2009 at 11:25 am |
Hey All,
Very cool clips. It seems we all took a hint from the music and ran with it, albeit to different pastures. That’s the fun of these contests. Thanks John, very inspirational!
November 26, 2009 at 3:39 pm |
Brett’s video doesn’t seem to be embedded right. Kicks me to youtubes’ login page.
Nice start everyone else. Looking to get mine in this weekend.
November 28, 2009 at 3:51 pm |
Well I;ve sent mine in … not expecting anything but cross fingers anyways
November 29, 2009 at 3:01 pm |
Thanks for making the effort Robert. Respect! John.
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