Anti-Piracy – Project complete.. I think?!

So the 20 second master piece is complete (kinda)

I've spent the last couple of days modelling, rendering compositing and editing. over all Its been a good project.

Here's a crunch down of the progress of ideas and how it was made..

My original plan was to have a voice over to read out what would be displayed on screen. I even purchased a £5 microphone from Asda ( which works very well). Me and my house mate Tony had good fun recording our voices for the animation, but when I actually put it to the video it didn't really fit, so I decided to scrap that idea.

Firstly here’s a test render I made a couple of days ago to get a sense of length and what sounds if any needed to be in it.

Anti-Piracy advert: With Sounds from Rob Antill on Vimeo.

I found the modem dialling tone somewhere on the net, I think it works well with the concept of file sharing. In this test video I was mainly trying out how the transitions would work between scenes. My ultimate aim was to make the whole video flow seamlessly.

FINAL ANIMATION

Untitled from Rob Antill on Vimeo.

Here are the list of scenes and how they were made.

First scene: Text falls from the sky. pCloud particle effects around the base to give the impression they are heavy. Glow added in after effects.

Camera zooms into text, KILLING gets longer and comes towards the camera. This give the illusion of the camera travelling fast and though a tunnel.

Earth appears at the other end of the tunnel. Soft focus on earth at start of the second scene.

Second scene: Spinning earth. Pixelated to give it a digital feel. Stars rendered separately, this allowed me to ad the glow to the earth. also allowed me to make changes to the earth and not have to re-render the high resolution back drop.

Third scene: Nodes and a network of file sharing starts to grow. This took quite along time to animate. This time I used Matte material for the floor so it would pick up the shadows and ambient occlusion but would allow me to choose the back ground colour in After Effects.

The camera movement moves in time with the network growing until one of the connections comes directly towards the camera. My original plan was to have a shot of the earth with the network spreading all over it but there wasn't enough time in the allocated 20 seconds for this.

Fourth scene: This bit of the animation is meant to represent data flying down the cable. it didn't work out how I wanted it to, but it looks ok.

some large text to get the message across that there are ways to download music for free. I didn't want to add any fancy animation on these bits because it would distract the viewer from reading the text.

Fifth scene: This was one of the first bits of the animation I made, also the the hardest and most time consuming. It doesn't look all that amazing because it had to be sped up to fit in.

Over all I'm pretty pleased with it. I think it meets what the brief was asking and I've learnt quite a lot of new techniques mainly in after effects.

The deadline for this isn't for another week so feedback/ suggested improvements would be great!