October 16, 2009

The Dark Knight 2



This is a redesign of an earlier work I did while a student in the grad program at SCAD. I've taken several weeks to truly teach myself After Effects from the ground up as well as doing a multitude of online tutorials.

The original premise of this title sequence was designed and executed several months before the release of the movie. In researching for the piece I found my inspiration in the poster of The Joker writing Why so serious? in blood on a window, in which the viewer is looking through at him.

I decided that since this movie was less about Batman and more about The Joker that the opening sequence should push that. Much in the same way that Saul Bass worked the opening sequence for a film in order to impress the mood of the film to the audience.

Many thanks goes to the excellent work and teaching of Andrew Kramer over at VideoCopilot.net.

Enjoy!

October 06, 2009

Lightsaber Technologies



With the increase of digital technologies and entertainment, the need for an animated logo is higher than ever. Movies, TV, Broadcast, Video Games all use animated logos. But how do we make something more conceptual than just spinning, zooming or fading in and out? I wanted to create an interesting and conceptual logo reveal so I created this. Lightsaber Technologies, where Jedi go to get their lightsabers fixed when they can't do it (the Jedi IT dept). And yes I know this is WAY off canon, but if you know me you know I'm a huge Star Wars fan.