The Week in Geek - Intro Video Proof of Concept and Breakdown

I just finished up a new piece for work for a new segment we are trying out called The Week in Geek. Its a weekly news show of stories that would be interest to geeks. The character is named Herbert Halflove and I decided to incorporate the character into the introduction. Check it below and if you are curious how I made it, catch the breakdown after the jump.

The Week in Geek - Intro Video Proof of Concept from Jordan Montreuil on Vimeo.

I started out with the text because the entire animation would be based around the text. I did the initial design in Illustrator and imported the splines into Cinema 4D, extruded them, textured them and animated them. I rendered out a basic test to import into After Effects to animate against.



I sketched out the character on paper and imported the drawing into Adobe Illustrator. I then drew over the sketch with the pen tool, fleshing it out and adding details.

Then I imported the artwork in After Effects and animated it with the Puppet tool. It was my first time using the Puppet tool for that effect so it had a bit of a learning curve to it. I used the basic test render from Cinema 4D to time the character animation against the text animation.



I rendered out the final 3D text and imported that into After Effects for final compositing and did the sound design right in the program.



The sound effects come from Video Copilot Designer Sound Effects and The Free Sound Project and the music is In Your Face from the one man band Brad Sucks.

Thanks for checking this out and please feel free to comment or ask questions.