Brian
vs
Glen 
Last night after making some minor corrections to the DVD menus Dieck and I embarked on the task of producing a Filmkid, LLC video logo to put at the beginning of things. We both liked the picture I’ve used as the header for Filmkid and wanted to work off that as the idea.
My suggestion was to take that picture, bring it into After Effects, have it move a bit, throw in some spot-light effects and call it a day.
Dieck’s suggestion was to take a hi-res scan of the notebook I photographed, angle it in 3D to the view it was in the photograph, type the text with a font that looks like handwriting (none of those fonts ever actually look like handwriting), do about a million other things to make a virtual version of the notebook look like the real notebook that I had already photographed at the angle we wanted to use.
Basically we wanted the same end result just to go about it completely differently, which is actually kind of a recurring theme between us. The result of this is that Dieck’s position is that of quality control where things I do end up looking much better than they otherwise would. Thus, I love Brian Dieck.
Several hours and a few minor arguments and compromises later we ended up with a logo we were both really happy with. You’ll be able to see it on the DVD.
October 25th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Heh, now I know the method to your madness!
Nice haircut, by the way.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Thanks, but it’s actually a lack of a hair cut. When editing/drawing/etc. I put my hair up in a samurai knot to keep it out of my face.
I wonder what the hell I did to make a giant white box appear around comments… that’s gotta go.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Nice Samari-do!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
P.S. The logo sounds really cool. Can’t wait to see it!!! Sounds super amazing actually!!! I’m not surprized, cause you’re super amazing…!!!!!