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Big Spaceship goes analog for their new endtag

Big Spaceship goes analog for their new endtag

Posted on 20 August 2008 |

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6 responses to “Big Spaceship goes analog for their new endtag”

  1. Comment by barret:

    That’s great, but do I have to pay $ 25 to watch the making of?

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    • Comment by bohemten:

      I agree it’s awesome, but the fact we have to pay $25 to watch it, kinda kills it for me….but we are in some sort of recession so every dollar counts i suppose.

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  2. Comment by worldpattern:

    The making of piece on Lynda.com was interesting, especially that they composited in the mouth completely separately from the mountain top (and shot footage of the mountain tilted back to match the movement).

    (Fortunately, my company pays for a subscription to Lynda so we can watch everything there all the time.)

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  3. Comment by justin:

    I’ve actually asked Lynda.com to share the making of for free on Motionographer. Seems like it be good promo for them. We’ll see if I hear anything back…

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  4. Comment by nbody:

    I didn’t watch the for-pay videos, but by the look of the free intro vid, their technique for the typography was much more simplified than how it used to be done, even in the 80s. (if anyone is interested)… Rather than laying on a green slab, dimensional model type like that would’ve been mounted on thin railings, thus allowing for it to fully interact with any backlighting (something the Big Spaceship piece noticeably lacks), then the rails would be easily hand roto’ed out (the whole point of using model type back then was to exploit spectacular lighting techniques that were unachievable synthetically). Or it would be mounted on glass, shot on MoCo with a second pass of the letters in black shadow with a white background as a ready-to-go matte pass to remove all the reflections of the lights in the glass.

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    • Comment by justin:

      Good lord, what a gigantic pain in the ass. Interesting, though. Thanks for the info!

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