The Blog of Glen Moyes

Just checking and reminding everyone that Hackberry Hollow is still in steady production. Here's some recent concept art, showing a sneak peak of Chapter 1. Be sure to check out the blog for more concept art and updates on the project. Yes, I haven't been posting on my personal blog very much, but we do post on the Hackberry Hollow blog every Tuesday without fail, and the content is far more interesting. So subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates on what I'm working on. We're all extremely excited about the project. We got the story nailed and the script is being written (we are almost done with the first volume out of five). The reactions to the script have been overwhelmingly positive, so we definitely feel that we have a winner and can't wait to get this project released. The Animation Academy About 5 months ago I enrolled into The Animation Academy down in Burbank for character design classes and wow, has it been a big help. Also today is The Animation Aca...

I've waited for a while to talk about this on my blog; I finished this project four months ago, and if you've looked at my Vimeo page within the past two months you may have noticed a new video on there called Aesop's Fables. That video only showed the completed animation with the background overlay and not actual footage of the gallery installation in action. Well, today I finally uploaded a video that does this project justice, and I went ahead and updated the older video by adding the same music by Kevin MacLeod that I included in today's video. >> Watch Aesop's Fables streamed in HD (720p) >> Watch Aesop's Fables: Complete Animation streamed in HD (720p) Aesop's Fables is my first 2D animated project. And by "2D animated" I don't mean animated with After Effects or Flash, I mean actually animating a character frame by frame. I loved it. It was a lot of work, but I loved it. This project was an experimental motion desi...

I never intended on revisited any of my school work, but since Vimeo's HD service is so good I was strongly compelled to re-render my motion design work in 720p. It also helped that I have a trial version of After Effects installed, so this will be the only chance I'll have to do this for a while, now that I'm away from school and don't have access to the Mac Lab. So here it is: all three projects from my motion design class, including one which you haven't seen before, in HD. Wonder This is the first project that I revisited earlier this week. I had to determine what version of Blender I used to make it because it wouldn't render properly with the newest version. Instead of rendering at the original 1024x576 resolution with no anti-aliasing , I re-rendered it at 1280x720 with 8x anti-aliasing. It took 2 days, but it's oh so pretty! Of course only after rendering did I noticed a couple of mistakes with the petals in the background. One would snap to a differ...

This was the final assignment for my motion design class (the same class that I did Wonder for). The assignment was to create a title sequence for a movie, preferably one that didn't already have an elaborate title sequence. So I chose one of my favorite movies: Sneakers . >> Watch this video streamed in HD (720p) I wanted the first part of the title sequence to look like the good old days of the BBS and ANSI art . The only way to do that was to animate the text frame by frame. In After Effects you can change the content of a text layer at any time, so it was just a matter of filling a text box full of white space (using a mono space font), and then edit the text for each frame as if you were using a text editor. The funny thing is that this crude bit of animation is the strongest part of the motion piece. I used to be an ANSI artist, so animating text in this way felt pretty comfortable to me even after all these years. It was a nice departure from all the key-framed anima...

Here's an a assignment from my motion design class. The goal was to take an emotion and create a motion piece that included text from the dictionary definition. Blender was used for animation while After Effects where used for compositing and bloom effects. The song used is Illusion of Love (bipolar remix) by Darkhalo. >> Watch this video streamed in HD (720p) The main purpose of this motion design assignment was to create and use style boards. The process of creating a motion piece--after the design brief and writing is done--is to create the storyboards, key art, style boards, and then go into production. The storyboards are rough sketches showing the action of the animation, the approved concept art is refined into key art, and from there you create what are called style boards. These are still images that show what the final shot should look like. Style boards don't need as many panels as storyboarding does, but in the case of this assignment we did to get practic...

I decided to go ahead and start posting some of my video files from previous projects. I'll start with this one from my BFA final project called Touch the Table. It's an interactive gallery exhibit where you are encouraged to touch the art. The art interacts with your hand by projecting 6 different effects onto it. For more detailed information about it, here's the temporary Touch the Table page hosted on the temporary Lumaglyph web site. Yup, that's the name of our studio.

This gives me an excuse to try out uploading videos to the blog. Here's the ads in their squint-o-vision glory (links to HD video and soundtrack downloads are in the previous post ). Edit: I started using Vimeo, so now you can click on the links below the ad to watch it streamed in HD from their web site. Enjoy! >> Watch this video streamed in HD (720p) >> Watch this video streamed in HD (720p)

Here are the links to the Computer Medical Center Ad we just finished. CMC Ad 1 : 720p, MP4/H264/AAC, 23.8 MB CMC Ad 2 : 720p, MP4/H264/AAC, 24.3 MB Music Track : MP3, 192kbit Music Track : OGG, 192kbit All content is copyrighted by Computer Medical Center. Credits Studio: Lumaglyph Creative Director and Designer: Glen Moyes Storyboard Artist: Shaun Williams Animation: Adam Weber, Glen Moyes Photography: Meggan Hayes Music: Glen Moyes (composition and engineering), Aaron Pike (composition), Shane Hunt (guitar) Design Process The goal for the TV spot was to create an ad on a tight budget that didn't look local. The ad is going to be shown in movie theaters locally and on cable TV, so we wanted to create an ad that is entertaining, communicates what Computer Medical Center does and sets it apart from the competition. The game piece concept worked very well to achieve this, and all within budget. For the second half of the ad, we decided to use photography in motion as opposed to vide...