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Behind the scenes . Creating a scene for an animated music video

In this post you’ll find a quick video tutorial on how we created one of the scenes for the animated music video for Coloba’s “The Conductor” track. In this step-by-step video you’ll find some of the editing and animation progress needed to create the scene.

Of course not all of the effort is shown, as creating this scene took about 2 days. You must be wondering why so long, so we are attaching a list of all the work that had to be done:

– Image browsing / selection
– Image isolations / background removal
– Creating each comp and precomp layer by layer
– Applying effects to add realism
– Creating lights and shadows
– Color correction
– Adjustment layers and postproduction
– Animation

July 28, 2014September 7, 2017 Animation Design Post production

Deconstructing the Rocket from “The Architekt” animation

One of the most challenging animations I’ve ever done is Arms and Sleepers’ music video for their song “The Architekt”. Most scenes, characters and props where made up of layered raster images rather than vector files and this took a fair amount of time in both creating the elements – and later on – rendering the final video file.

July 21, 2014September 7, 2017 Animation Articles Design

Boosting my creativity Part I: Books

I’m an avid reader. Ever since I was a child I found great joy on reading books, comics and even the newspaper’s comic strips. As a teenager I slowed down quite a bit on reading cause…a teenager usually has other interests.

After I graduated as a graphic and digital designer and founded QB Media (back in 2003) I started reading a lot of design and marketing related books.

March 6, 2014September 7, 2017 Animation Articles Character Design

From Sketch to finished Character

The process of character creation might sound easy to some, but it’s really not. There are several things we have to keep in mind while creating characters for our videos:

February 28, 2014September 7, 2017 Articles Live Action Post production

Video Postproduction

We have recently completed a promotional video for a smartphone and tablet application that acts as a city tourist guide. We used our Quadcopter drone with an attached GoPro camera to make the initial aerial shot and then blended it with a second shot in which an actor is seen holding a smartphone

February 1, 2014September 13, 2017 Animation Articles Live Action Storyboard

The importance of a Storyboard

A storyboard is a visual aid for the client. When we read the scripts and come up with the ideas for an animation or live action video we need a way to show this to the client. Storyboarding is THE WAY we video producers have to share our vision.

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