Soundforms animation: finishing touches

When I met with my client on March 21st I showed him what I had produced already and he told me what he thought would make some nice final touches. These were:

- Adding a backlight to the stage to give a bright glow around the rim

- Adding mini spotlights around the bass of the stage

- A bit of smoke or fog to create some ambience

- Possibly adding an audience

After this we set a final deadline for the 5th April.

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I made all of these changes apart from adding an audience because there was no way to build it in a week unless I used 2D images (which I tried and didn’t look good).

In this week I also composed some music in Cubase (here’s an image of the project):

I used a mixture of acoustic and electronic instruments which created quite an interesting modern/classical feel. I hoped to give the impression that the stage is new, exciting and innovational.

Finally in After Effects I added some text to bring the animation to a tidy ending.

Here is the animation I showed Mark at our next meeting on the 5th April:

Mark said he was very pleased with the outcome as he liked the contemporary feel I had created with the whole look and sound. There were however a couple more things that he felt could be improved. These were:

- More saturation or even a texture on the exterior of the stage

- A different film/animation to replace the cars which are projected onto the stage.

- A fade out to the text ‘Soundforms’ rather than an abrupt entrance

I also personally wanted to change some things which were:

- Adding two more bars to the music

- Taking away the glare of light inside the stage

- Re modelling and animating one of the spotlights

- Changing the order of the animations inside the stage.

After making all these changes here is the final promotional video: