Motion Graphic with Watercolor Mood

Remember when I posted about Photo-Watercolorizing project a month ago? So here it is. All of the elements were done with manual traditional & digital painting (with Wacom). Thanks to my wife, Dita, for her amazing food-photography :D

Painting Our Family - an experiment with Sherlock Holmes end title style

When the first time I saw Sherlock Holmes end title, I was like "This is the one what I've been looking for!"
Well, I was looking for a style that combine live-action footage, painting & motion graphic & that end title inspires me.

So I decide to make a 'rip-off' style from it. I have no problem with the drawing itself, but the problem is in the ink-smearing motion effect.

Fortunately I found this website with tutorial & material about the same style, Jake & Dan. So I grab the paper texture file, the smearing ink blot etc from them.

Next step, I pick some of video footages from our Canon EOS 500D. Then in Corel Painter X, I draw the outline & put some hatches in different layers. I keep the original image from the video footage for color effect, later in After Effects.







Then in AfterEffects, using the smearing-ink material from -- as Luma Matte for each layer of my drawings & apply BCC Watercolor in the original image.





In the final composition, all the layers are in 3D mode because I want to add depth (3D environment) & put a camera with slow track movement.









I pick a beautiful music from http://opsound.org The Blossoming Lilies by The Orchestral Movement of 1932 as the soul of the motion.

So here it is. Enjoy

Painting My Family [Final Version] on Vimeo.

Hardware: Canon 500D, MacPro, MacMini, Wacom Bamboo
Software: AfterEffects, Painter XI

Illustration in Motion

by : Pinot

Sometimes, it's fun to put illustration works inside my motion graphic project. It's just like, giving a soul to an illustration and make it alive, dance, move. Specially when we were doing this project -- an opening/intro for TV program -- with a combination of hand-drawing animation and AfterEffect. Here's few of the examples.





I did the illustration with Wacom Intuos and Corel Painter then capture the movement of the drawing sketch with SnapzPro. So it will looks like virtually drawing among the motion graphic elements.

These are the final motion graphic design :






Here is the video.

Motion Graphic : Pinodita.com

This intro was made to be an opening/closing bumper for our videos.



Artist : Pinot
Tools : MacBook & Adobe AfterEffect
Music/sound : Apple iLife 08 music sample
VO : Arwen