I am posting in this forum as I require some advice and help if possible. I have outlined below what I am talking about.
Background
Last year a group of friends and myself set up a non-profit,non-commercial, amateur, hobby film making group where we aim to make a mixture of feature length and short films both live action and possibly animation in the future. All films we make will be released on our website, goldlinepictures dot com, and selected other sites.
We have an animated logo which I designed myself a few years ago when I first became interested in film making. The model was made with anim8or however I am not an animation artist or animator and the result is a very low quality animation. Please take a look at it on youtube by searching for Goldline Logo. It is the first result. The video author is goldlinepictures.
What am I asking?
Well I am asking if anyone would be able to help me redesign and animate a new logo. I have tried several times with various different animation programs but all have been unsuccessful.
Reward and credit
Unfortunately as we are a non-profit, hobby group we are not able to give cash rewards however we will try to give some kind of reward to all those who help with our projects. One thing we will do however is to give the maker of the new logo full credit in the credits of all of our projects now and in the future.
Lastly I would like to say thank you for taking your time to read this. I will check back on this post daily and I will endeavour to reply to any posts made here within 24hours.
Below I have tried to reply to all posts made in this thread.
In reply to gregzaal, I have tried several times myself to redesign and animate logo however I am not an animator and every attempt I have made produces something which is not of very good quality. To solve this I have tried many times to follow several tutorials and how to guides on how to use blender and many other animation programs but I have not improved my skills. As regard to the credit. I will fully credit the creator of the logo in all work that the group makes or helps to make. As I said before we do not have great funds for monitery reward but if possible we will try to send a small thank you for any work that people do for us.
The link to the video on youtube is www dot youtube dot com/watch?v=o8T5mkWVyJc. I tried to post it before but because of settings imposed by the board admins I was unable to as I am a new member and my post count is not very high at the moment. Again this time I am unable to post the link however here is the web address. All you need to do is replace dot with . in the web address above.
To dsavi, Thanks for your reply.
To drobbins, thanks for the link. I will take a look and see if I am able to follow this tutorial. If I still do not have success then I am sure that it will be of creative use when redesigning the logo.
And finally to stvndysn, I did try to post the link to the video in the first post however I was unable to due to forum restrictions. I have included information about this above.
To get a nice logo animation (beter than your example) will require you to understand: Materials (for text), making curve objects/text, lighting (basic) and animating on a path (camera movement). Best bet is checking out BlenderGuru.
But start a thread on the work In Progress sub-forum. Get feedback.
I am posting again here in this topic as the original guy who started work on the new logo has had to stop working with us due to other commintments which is a great shame, We wish him every success and hope to work with him again in the future. The project is still in full swing and we hope to start filming within the next couple of months.
We have the new logo design but need someone to work with us on the animation process of this logo. We do have the blend file with the new logo design.
The general idea for the logo is for it to appear during a sweeping camera shot. The camera sit on screen for a few seconds and then turns to smoke and drifts off.
We will credit anyone and everyone for any work they do on the project and their names will appear in the credits of all films we make for making the logo. Our budgets for films are small but we will if budgets allow try to send a small tokent of our thanks.
If you are interested then please post here as I check the thread everday and will try to respond to any posts made within 24 hours.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to working with you