Our latest project which involved combining live footage with 3D and 2D animation to show the features of the Judge mini rice cooker. A very challenging project as the video footage had no obvious markers to track!!! However, we managed to track some of the elements and manual tracked the rest. The result was an almost perfect track.
Our client loved the original Swiftdock animation so they have asked us to design a storyboard for the new Swiftdock mini product animation. The Swiftdock mini is a smaller version of the original Swiftdock, designed for much smaller devices. The animation will show the size difference and what this means for customers.
Looking forward to starting this project.
Small animation project for the early part of the New Year! This was a 2D motion graphic ident (intro and outro) animation for a UAV camera recording company. The intro ident concept was centred around the camera and lens design of the logo. The “wings” of the logo also rotated to represent the rotary wings of the UAV.
After viewing BeanBox’s latest subsea animation, a manufacturing company approached BeanBox to possibly create two subsea product animation for them. The company provides services and products to the oil and gas industries. The animations would demonstrate how their new Orifice Meter Run and Flow Conditioning (Double Block and Bleed) products work and so act as a sale tool. The products are very hi-tech and complex pieces of equipment and design to measure and monitor the complex motion of fluids in pipelines. For this reason, the animation is looking to be set offshore on an oil rig or FPSO or even underwater as a subsea animation.
After a very long meeting, we are really looking forwards to creating another subsea animation.
Our latest 3D product animation has been completed!!! It was a very simple and straight forward animation project using a blend of 2D and 3D animation. The creative storyboarding process was the most challenging.
View the final animation here.
It has been a busy week! Two projects about to be completed and we have recently found out that we have won two new animation contracts this week!
The first animation project is a 3D product animation for a company that makes car brakes. It will feature cars braking and showing how wonderful their braking systems are. The animation will be supported with sexy info graphics and stats.
The second animation is also a 3D product animation to show an advance bar code scanning system. The system is designed to speed up scanning of pallets on lorries of any type. The animation will explain how the process works and the hi tech features it has.
Exciting projects.
First test render of the Subsea animation (without Voice Over)
The animatic has been signed off!!!
It has a temporary Voice Over and a temporary oil spill system.
We are now at the render stage so the final finish animation will be ready very soon!
A few snapshot of the test render:
Olympic Class Vessel in dock loading the Capping Stack and Accumulator Pack
Olympic vessel traveling to location of oil spill.
Accumulator Pack and Capping Stack being deployed into the sea, above the location of the oil spill accident.
ROV positioning the Capping Stack as it descends onto the Blow Out Preventor.
An Olympic ship, which is a DP2 Multi Service Vessel, has been modeled and used in the development of the animatic.
ROV, based on the Millennium Plus class, which fully rigged robotic arm.
Blow Out Preventer (BOP) with algae growth and rust.
Extensive work as been done on creating a believable underwater oil spillage using a 3D simulation. It was a real headache trying to achieve a 3D volumetric effect but it’s finally finished.
Another good improvement this month which is quite surprising considering I haven’t really had the time to write anymore content. I guess this is “natural growth”.
1) Product Visualisation; average improvement of 0.5 pages
2) Product Animation; no real movement.
3) Freelance animator; general slip down of 1 page. Looks like things are getting more difficult at this level.
4) 3d animator; down by 4 pages!!!
5) animation company; no movements.
6) animation studio; down 3 pages 🙁 !!!
7) 3D modelling, a massive jump of 12 pages.
8) animation production company, up by 10 pages to about page 4/5
Well, it looks like I have been a bit slack on the SEO side this month, thus the small drops in ranking! Looks like I will need to add more content over the next few weeks and then watch as the SEO improves.