Creativity 101, Stranger Things, Videos : July 31, 2009 : 8:28 pm

Strange RSS, LLC Logo Animation

In my spare moments this week, I’ve been working on a logo animation for Strange RSS, LLC (the company I started to create Stranger Things).

At fourteen seconds, this is a bit longer than I want.  I’ll end up cutting a few seconds out of the middle for the “long version” (8-10 seconds), and fading to black at 4-5 seconds for the short version.

I could also chop it in half and have two options for an animation.

Strange RSS LLC Logo from Earl Newton on Vimeo.

Stock footage animated in After Effects.

I’ve done a lot of VFX insertions into live footage, but this is my first attempt at completely artificial photorealism.  Color choice seems to be everything in photorealism.  Nothing is ever true white or true black, it’s a lot of grays and irregularities and asymmetrical details until it looks right.