IMAGINARY FORCES is a design and production company based in Hollywood and New York. Its award-winning work spans the diverse industries of feature film production, entertainment marketing and promotion, corporate branding, architecture, advertising and experience design. In entertainment and media marketing, Imaginary Forces created campaigns for such films as High School Musical 3, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers and The Chronicles of Narnia. The company also designed and produced main title sequences for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Definitely Maybe and the upcoming Yes Man, as well as for such hits as Se7en and Spider-Man. Imaginary Forces' animated opening title sequence for the hit AMC series Mad Men recently won a Creative Arts Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and shared a nomination with another Imaginary Forces project, the title sequence for NBC's Chuck. In the area of experience design, the company most recently co-designed and produced New City, an installation in the Museum of Modern Art's 2008 "Design and the Elastic Mind" show, digital signage for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and media installations for the first HBO retail store in Manhattan.
Imaginary Forces is always looking for talented freelance designers. Candidates will work closely with a team of animators, designers, and art directors to create unique designs for trailers, title sequences, commercials, theatrical ID's, network branding, and experience design. .
Freelance positions. 2D animators should be proficient in After Effects.
Please send resumes to: jobs@imaginaryforces.com Or fax to: 323.957.5761
In 2005, Robert Ryang, 25, a film editor’s assistant in Manhattan, graduated from Columbia three years ago with a double major in film studies and psychology. This week, he got an eye-opening lesson in both. He entered a contest for editors’ assistants sponsored by the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors. The challenge? Take any movie and cut a new trailer for it — but in an entirely different genre. Only the sound and dialogue could be modified, not the visuals. Mr. Ryang chose “The Shining,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. In his hands, it became a saccharine comedy — about a writer struggling to find his muse and a boy lonely for a father. Gilding the lily, he even set it against “Solsbury Hill,” the way-too-overused Peter Gabriel song heard in comedies billed as life-changing experiences, like last year’s “In Good Company.” Mr. Ryang won the contest, and he sent three friends a link to a “secret site” on his company’s Web site where they could watch his entry . One of them, Mr. Ryang said, posted it on his little-watched blog. And that was that. Until this week, when he was hit by a tsunami of Internet interest.
On Wednesday, Mr. Ryang said, his secret site got 12,000 hits. By Thursday the numbers were even higher, his film was being downloaded and linked to on countless other sites, it had cracked the top 10 most popular spoofs on www.ifilm.com, and a vice president at a major Hollywood studio had called up his office, scouting for new talent. “He said it’s being circulated everywhere in the film community,” Mr. Ryang said of the executive, not wanting to name the man for fear of alienating him. “He wanted to know who I was, and if I had any creative ideas. I told him I’d put together a reel.” Attention was directed more specifically at Mr. Ryang — who is suddenly being forced to rethink his future as an assistant. “People have been calling producers here, asking about who made it,” he said. “I really didn’t realize how fast the world moves.”
According to the student: "This was for my final year project at Staffordshire Uni. It was shot on a Canon XL2 It took about a two weeks to make, on and off."
QUESTION: A two week project? ANSWER: Assuming the student has the basics of AE.
QUESTION: Will a student be able to create a video sequence like this in seven weeks? ANSWER: Maybe a small team will be able to do all the tasks necessary to complete this.
QUESTION: if clips are supplied as resources, might the student be ablel to assemble the story (copywriting) out of the clips (video, stills, music)? ANSWER: What is required is "creativity" to develop the story, designing the shots and sequencing, and technical knowledge of the effects to be applied to create the look & feel. Some plug-ins may be required to achieve the desired effect.
• Video and audio layers that are based on footage items that you import, such as still images, movies, and audio tracks • Layers that you create within After Effects to perform special functions, such as cameras, lights, adjustment layers, and null objects • Solid-color layers that are based on solid-color footage items that you create within After Effects • Synthetic layers that hold visual elements that you create within After Effects, such as shape layers and text layers • Precomposition layers, which use compositions as their source footage items
15 second hooks look like an interesting idea for a video project. You have 15 seconds to teach someone about something. Produce a video on YouTube designed using Adobe After Effects.
This Spring and Summer 2009, I will be searching for all kinds of goodies for those interested in exploring the possibilities of video composition using Adobe After Effects.
This blog will follow a fourteen week introduction course to the basics of AFTER EFFECTS.
Weekly topics, tips and techniques, designer ideas, video tutorials, AE support links, and other goodies related to learning about compositing, special effects, and animation will be posted here.
Great JAM last night... !!!!!!!!
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Great jam...
Crossroads... Before you accuse me... Voodoo Chile... and a whole ton of
new jam ideas...
thanks to Justin... Turk... Jesse...
Awesome!!!!
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