14/8/2013 Storyboards & Mockups

Storyboards

(Trailer)

I've created some mock-up shots in Photoshop for the ARC40K trailer. These are basically intended to show the general shot composition, aka element position, lighting, tone, foreground/background.
As many of the layer blending effects and filters in Photoshop easily translate into After Effects, many visual effects I'm wanting to incorporate are represented here too.

In addition to being visual shot references, these mock-ups show the chronological progression of the trailer.

(Briefing)

When creating the Storyboards for the Mission Briefing I skipped straight to After Effects to start playing around with some of the different visual effects I could achieve using the in-built Active Camera and various layer blending and filters.

The Camera in particular offers up an exciting array of possibilities when combined with 3D layers (featuring 2D images). The rudimentary beginnings of these can be seen the mock-up video (namely panning, zooming, rotating)

The video also shows a sneaky look at what a hologram overlaying the battlefield might look like...

Game on,
Mo.