Rotoscoping

I got this video from the Discovery channel of a shark breaching water and imported it into photoshop at every 15 frames to make it run faster.

I then rotoscoped it to form the basis of part of my final ident. 

I actually really enjoyed rotoscoping, even though it was quite boring and repetitive, but I really like how realistic the movement is and I'm happy with my choice to use this method for my final animation. I do, however, really need to work on the water and splashes in this animation as they look a bit crazy. 

Update: Sound

I have been thinking about the sound for my three idents.

I think for the E4 ident I'm probably just going to have sound effects of sea and splashes, maybe getting one of the E4 sound tracks they supply for their ident competitions, as they're license free.

For the other two, to avoid having to try to get permission for songs and soundtracks to use and it maybe not quite fitting to what I would like, I've asked my friend who does music production at Ravensbourne in London to make me a couple of 10 second clips for my idents, which he has agreed to. This means they will be license free and hopefully exactly what I'd like them to be as we can work together on them.

Discovery Channel ident

Shark week ident.

I have done some research into shark week on the Discovery Channel.. Shark Week is one of the most popular shows to appear on the discovery channel and so I have decided to theme my ident on this. It will be quite different to the other idents on the Discovery Channel, but the others are done with motion graphics and 3D and I have not yet got that ability.

I have watched hundreds of videos from previous shark weeks and other videos of sharks on youtube and have decided on either having the logo in the water with sharks circling it, having the shark eat the logo and us seeing inside the sharks mouth, or a shark breaching the water and grabbing the logo like it would grab a seal. I think this idea is the most dynamic and interesting, and I think it would be a fun challenge to get the movements and speed to look realistic.

I've done some studies of sharks for research to get a good realistic looking shark, as the Discovery Channel would not suit a very stylised cartoon shark as much as a realistic natural looking shark.

Here is my storyboard.