Production Logo

[simchapup]

how can i make a production company animated logo can i just use flash and some photoshop.

Aaron

[BinBinProductions]

Make many pictures, like an animation, size them down on your editing software (sony vegas) and render the clip. THats what i did.

[sonnyfromda02]

How are you trying to animate it?

[AntRid]

Your best bet for simple 2D animation is Flash. If you want 3D animation then something like 3D MAX will be of more help.

[ClayOgre]

Question is...what's your budget for this?

Flash = something like $700 last time I priced it.

3D Max = lotsa bucks. I just looked online and found a price, $3500

There is other software to do this sort of thing, but it takes some learning.

2D options: Gimp with GAP, Synfig (kinda buggy and very beta)
3D options: Blender, mebbe Wings3d or some combination of the two.

This little film intro (http://clayogre.deviantart.com/art/20th-Century-DAD-80969288) was done in Blender (made for some stuff I shot of my kids). I first made a sound file using a combination of Garage Band sounds, then made the animation, timed to fit those sounds. Then I put the two together with Windows Movie Maker (I also have another version that I did with iMovie '08).

[greyroompictures]

Often, simpler is better (which is great... as simpler often means cheaper!!!)

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ih1veQPNkk for my logo (at the very start of the trailer)

It's a couple of Photoshopped images blended in and out of each other - any video editing program should be able to do it if you save each photoshopped layer as a separate BMP file.

After blending and rendering as an AVI, I had a stationary logo with some nice looking wipes running through it. I ran this AVI through my editing program again, this time adding motion and a fade either end.

Erm... it feels hard to explain... hope you get the idea!!

I've been thinking about changing it for ages but I kinda like the simplicity of it... What do you think ? Hope it gives you some ideas...