Ident Research

Ident Research 

I looked at a few of the different idents that were produced for watch the television program and really liked how they had been put together and the different things that they used but the main thing that I saw from these particular ones is how I could possibly re produce them myself I was constantly thinking and working out in my head the different things that I could possibly use to make my own interpretations of these. Like possibly using soft body tags to give the spheres a soft bouncy texture to them I would mess around with the setting of the simulations tags so the bounced in the correct way, then I thought maybe using the hair tag I messed around with it once or twice but never really in depth so maybe now I might want to look ingot something like that.

This is the second Ident I looked at for my research very much the same as the first but using completely different textures to get a much harder feel even the colour scheme compared with the first really makes you feel the harder colder look for this its still colorful but compared to the fluffy soft looking first one this s much different. This again got me thinking about different things in cinema 4d I had already messed around with collider bodies and rigid ones so maybe I could work out a shatter effect and get it to look similar to shattered glass but maybe do something like this watch ident but in a different style.

This ident by SyFy got me thinking more about something I had seen on youtube a lot and that’s something call reel flow which is a pug in for cinema 4d which allows you to create the characteristics of water and any type of liquid really you can already create and liquid type thing in cinema 4d without any plugins but this is more of a gel type consistency, this ident just got me thinking about looking into getting reel flow and possibly having a mess around with it and looking for some tutorials so I could create something like this. But talking about the effect you can get in cinema is by using something called meta balls this allows you to create and gel sort of texture that can flow over any object this is again something I could look to sue instead of reel flow. 

This is something that I definitely think I would be able to achieve and improve on in cinema 4d is not something that really fits that well with the ideas of the animation we need for mtv but definably something I will be messing around with, there is a lot of streamer time things flying out different particles being thrown around and also the edges of the letters are peeling up this could be interesting to try and recreate in cinema. 

This is not so much my style but certainly something I would be looking for another member of the group to input into our final animation and this is that drawn on flash style animation that I think look really great more so the way this has been put together with the lines growing so its looks like the different elements are being drawn straight on to the animation this is something I would want in my final animation for MTV

This was a ident that I found on youtube I think its for some other country’s TV channel and I am assuming by many of there ads that I watched is that they mainly play music from the different styles that are portrayed in the idents like using speakers and cables from different instruments. This is another thing I have been wanting to play around with in cinema for a while now and that sound seeing I you can get sound to effect the way particles or simulation tags on object will be effected this is a great example of this they have a large speaker with spheres inside it being bounced around by the speakers base and sound this gives the spheres interesting motion but I think it could be much improved by doing simple things like changing the variation of diameter to the spheres and also maybe putting some other types of objects like platonic and things like that.