Motion Graphics « Bryan Ray, Visual Effects Artist

August 27, 2010

Storm Front Title Sequence

Filed under: 3d Modeling, Illustration, Motion Graphics, Video & Animation — Tags: After Effects, andrew kramer, animation, bob the skull, dresden files, Illustration, karrin murphy, maya, modeling, Motion Graphics, movie titles, susan rodriguez, title sequence, victor sells, video, video copilot — Bryan @ 8:11 pm

Earlier, I posted some brush-and-ink drawings inspired by Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novels. This is the video for which I created those images:

Storm Front title sequence from Bryan Ray on Vimeo.
For much better quality, view it on Vimeo.

Created in Maya and After Effects, with music and stock footage courtesy of Andrew Kramer of Videocopilot.net (used with permission, in accordance with the VC license agreement).

Licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
Characters and title are the intellectual property of Jim Butcher, and their use here in no way represents a challenge to Mr. Butcher’s ownership thereof.

Actors’ names represent a hypothetical cast for this movie and do not indicate any endorsement of or association with this video or producer.

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August 18, 2010

More Dresden Files imagery

Filed under: Drawing, Illustration — Tags: brush and ink, chinese brush, dresden, dresden files, harry dresden, Illustration, india ink, jim bucher, Motion Graphics, motion graphics 3, pentacle — Bryan @ 8:30 pm

Here’s Dresden himself:

And his silver pentacle:

I don’t recall if I mentioned it in the previous post, but these were done with a Chinese bamboo brush and black India ink. I based the drawing of Dresden on the cover art, but I don’t recall him ever being described as wearing a hat in the books. I don’t know, maybe the artist is just really nervous about painting hair.

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August 17, 2010

Bob the Skull

Filed under: Drawing, Illustration, Object and Vehicle Design — Tags: bob, bob the skull, brush and ink, candle, Drawing, dresden, dresden files, harry dresden, Illustration, india ink, ink, Motion Graphics, motion graphics 3, skull, storm front, title sequence, wizard — Bryan @ 10:23 am

My current Motion Graphics assignment is to make yet another title sequence. This time, it’s going to be an adaptation of Jim Butcher’s Storm Front. I’m working on a brush-and-ink on parchment style for the bulk of the piece. Here’s my illustration of Bob the Skull, Harry Dresden’s mystical advisor:

Bob the Skull

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October 31, 2009

Political talk show opener

Filed under: Video & Animation — Tags: After Effects, digital juice, Motion Graphics, motion graphics II, political talk show — Bryan @ 9:32 pm

For Motion Graphics II, our first major project was to create a neutral political talk show opener. So here is my entry. Stock footage courtesy of Digital Juice.

Content temporarily removed due to licensing issues. I don’t have the rights to post the music on the Internet; I’ll have to find something royalty-free or make it myself.

Instead, check out my wife throwing a fireball:

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Soldiers fighting back-to-back

Filed under: Compositing, Environments, Video & Animation — Tags: After Effects, alan province, cgtextures, chroma key, composite, compositing, environment, guns, john white, keying, Motion Graphics, motion graphics II, mutant chronicles, nick person, ruth mentzer, sebastian hernandez, seth lawrey, sky, tim mohatt, todd debreceni, vfx, videocopilot, visual effects — Bryan @ 9:21 pm

I was assigned a simple chroma-keying exercise in Motion Graphics II. Since I had little else due, I decided to take it a bit further than that. I am one of the soldiers, the other is Seth Lawrey. Muzzle flashes and fog from a footage collection by Andrew Kramer of Videocopilot.net. Costumes by John White. Miniature terrain built by me, Ruth Mentzer, John White, Sebastian Hernandez, Tim Mohatt, Seth Lawrey, Nick Person, Alan Province and instructor Todd Debreceni. Guns by Todd Debreceni. Sky provided by Cgtextures.com. The composite was done in After Effects CS4.

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