what I neglected to tell you about what we used to do in motion graphics is zippers.
consider filming in stop motion a zipper being unzipped in about 15 images. in the last image it is completely open and all parts are off screen.
after filming you cut out or blue screen the opened parts of each frame - through which teh next layer emerges.
what we used to do in NeonCrunch is create several zippers in the computer and render to tape and chroma-key to gether, or just layer together in the computer 15 frames at a time and string the sections together on line.
any object action that wipes fully and logically accross the screen or engulfs it became an excellent candidate for a zipper.
staging several operating in staggered fashion can keep transitions fascinating.
our loops were usually 6 frame loops or 11 frame back and forths using 6 frames, or 15 frame loops which were 29 frames back and forth.
hope that was not too esoteric. I don’t know any of the tools today, and one day I hope to rewrite the NeonCrunch animation system in java or something that runs on any hardware.
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July 5th, 2008 at 7:24 am
what I neglected to tell you about what we used to do in motion graphics is zippers.
consider filming in stop motion a zipper being unzipped in about 15 images. in the last image it is completely open and all parts are off screen.
after filming you cut out or blue screen the opened parts of each frame - through which teh next layer emerges.
what we used to do in NeonCrunch is create several zippers in the computer and render to tape and chroma-key to gether, or just layer together in the computer 15 frames at a time and string the sections together on line.
any object action that wipes fully and logically accross the screen or engulfs it became an excellent candidate for a zipper.
staging several operating in staggered fashion can keep transitions fascinating.
our loops were usually 6 frame loops or 11 frame back and forths using 6 frames, or 15 frame loops which were 29 frames back and forth.
hope that was not too esoteric. I don’t know any of the tools today, and one day I hope to rewrite the NeonCrunch animation system in java or something that runs on any hardware.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Zipper sounds like an interesting effect. Do you have any old vids you could post that would have an example?