Motion Graphics

Groovy Dude...
On my quest to become Captain Amazing, in the video world that is, I'd like to submit the following for your consideration. As I've spoken about before I've been called upon to create an animated logo for the CLEAR Department at UNT. I've posted a few of my video's on here (here, here and here) and it's time for an update. Our Department is quickly trying to get me to finish this cube so that we can start posting it on iPod university for students to view classes and see whats going on at the University of North Texas. With that in mind I've had to readjust a few things so that my animated cube looks good on an iPod screen.
For one thing, I've taken the logo above and added it to my composition so that it matches with the already created logo as close as possible. Once I did this I went about adjusting the format of the composition; before when I was first using Motion I was kind of just playing around. Now I'm perfecting my angles and creating my own 3D schemes. Here is what the old composition has turned into:

Cube Tornado with Video from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.

After finishing this video and readjusting everything (aligning the camera and the cube faces) I felt like I could do alot more with this project, being a perfectionist and all. So I took it one step further and and I came up with this:

HD Cube with no background from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.

I then took the white background and added in some lights (just for fun). I also pushed this composition into the HD sphere and spent a little while getting used to long render times and large compositions. My work has opted to buy me more ram for my computer in fact, some time next week I'll be rocking 8 gigs! I eventually replaced these drop zones with video and audio, I just wanted you to get a feel for what it looks like. I also slowed down some animation in parts and sped it up as well to make it more smooth. All and all its looking alot better than it was before.

HD cube with white background and lights from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.

I've also been trying my hand at some After Effects tutorials, with hopes of creating a few logos that I wouldn't be able to create with Motion. Namely I've been working on a Logo for our Denton ROCKS segments that I've been shooting. Here is the early stages of awesomeness:

D from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.

As I'm sitting here writing this I'm attempting to upload a promo video I've created for the next My Denton Music Showcase that is coming up at the end of the month which I'm pretty excited about. This time we're laying out the red carpet for Trebuchet, which is made up of a group of pretty laid back guys. We shot a "Sarah Crisman Show" episode with them the other day and it was a blast. Lets just say pantyhose and zombie blood were a necessity for this shoot and definitely made for some really good laughs. I hope to have this segment and an episode with RTB2 edited and online by the middle of next week. These shows are really starting to get to be alot of fun...

Trebuchet Promo from Pat Flaherty on Vimeo.