Well now that I'm back home, after eating dinner (leftovers, but food is more that zero food), I will post the test versions of the crap I did at work today. I don't mean crap as in a more vulgar way of saying "stuff" or "renders", I mean do mean crap as in shit. It's all shit. But they give me files and I simply animate them. Unless they pay CCFV more and someone tells me it's now my job to do it.
The less crappy version (which is the revised version)
The more crappy version (which is a remake of the original that neither I nor the art director liked at all. It's better now, but still crap).
Tomorrow we'll get revisions back and see if Sprout will provide us with a better animated cloth, because the one now is extremely jerky (and it's animated at 12-15 fps, while the bird's motion path is 30fps which makes the jumpiness highly noticeable).
Edit: Ember asked what made the more crappy version, eh, "more crappy." The bird is past title safe lines. I realize the few people who read this don't know what that means, or, more importantly, where title and action safe lines lie. Here's a screen shot (click it for a full thing).
See the lines running through it? The topmost one is action safe, the lower one is title safe. Seeing how the bird is a primary focus (until the Geico logo appears), it's extremely important that that bird is in full view and not decapitated on TV screens.
Also, I made the screenshot just now on my MBP. At work I hook up an external 19" 1600x1200 display which I dedicate to After Effects because it lets me see the full image at 100% with all my favorite palettes fully expanded and a good chunk of the timeline. On this MBP, you can see how everything gets truncated to fit the smaller (height) display. End edit.
And the rest of this entry is really geeky, so click the spoiler tag only if you dare.
The less crappy version (which is the revised version)
The more crappy version (which is a remake of the original that neither I nor the art director liked at all. It's better now, but still crap).
Tomorrow we'll get revisions back and see if Sprout will provide us with a better animated cloth, because the one now is extremely jerky (and it's animated at 12-15 fps, while the bird's motion path is 30fps which makes the jumpiness highly noticeable).
Edit: Ember asked what made the more crappy version, eh, "more crappy." The bird is past title safe lines. I realize the few people who read this don't know what that means, or, more importantly, where title and action safe lines lie. Here's a screen shot (click it for a full thing).
See the lines running through it? The topmost one is action safe, the lower one is title safe. Seeing how the bird is a primary focus (until the Geico logo appears), it's extremely important that that bird is in full view and not decapitated on TV screens.
Also, I made the screenshot just now on my MBP. At work I hook up an external 19" 1600x1200 display which I dedicate to After Effects because it lets me see the full image at 100% with all my favorite palettes fully expanded and a good chunk of the timeline. On this MBP, you can see how everything gets truncated to fit the smaller (height) display. End edit.
And the rest of this entry is really geeky, so click the spoiler tag only if you dare.