Above is the original clip I extracted from the film untouched including the original titles. Below is the edited version I created. At the end of this etude I feel like I have accomplished what I had set out to do but I wished I allowed myself more time to experiment more with 3D Typographical animation and create a longer title sequence to include more credits from the film. In terms of the other films I felt I made the best decision to select this one as I believe I had a better idea of how I could emulate the them and tone of the film. I'm hoping an audience to this piece will invest more interest into the film due to its revised presentation as I had initially intended as well as keep the fans of the original interested or better still cause them to re-invested their interest for the film.
Wednesday 2 April 2008
Etude Four (4) - Final Piece
Above is the original clip I extracted from the film untouched including the original titles. Below is the edited version I created. At the end of this etude I feel like I have accomplished what I had set out to do but I wished I allowed myself more time to experiment more with 3D Typographical animation and create a longer title sequence to include more credits from the film. In terms of the other films I felt I made the best decision to select this one as I believe I had a better idea of how I could emulate the them and tone of the film. I'm hoping an audience to this piece will invest more interest into the film due to its revised presentation as I had initially intended as well as keep the fans of the original interested or better still cause them to re-invested their interest for the film.
Etude Four (4) - Process
Ultimately I had decided to focus on a single film and its quality in the title sequence after analysing the selected films. With "Black Samurai" the title sequence still holds up well and therefore any improvement by me may feel as if it wasn't as necessary as I thought it would've been. With the film "Return of the Kung Fu Dragon" the picture and sound quality available wasn't ideal and I wanted to stay away from the pure martial arts film such as this due to my research and general use of the genre in modern media. I considered using "Death Rides A Horse" carefully after downloading a higher resolution of the film but the film "Return of the Street Fighter" intrigued me more due to its tone and premise. Therefore I obtained a higher resolution set of files of the film from Archive.org.
Initially I began making rough notes (above image) whilst watching the film as to where the original titles were and how effective they were in the film. I then began making a few rough sketches and went straight into editing and extracting the scenes I would alter. The scene I selected was chosen due to the introduction style of the main character and its build up and it also wasn't the location for the original titles which appears later in the film.
With a rough idea of how I wanted the titles to appear I focused on creating a title sequence that would be short and more an example of how it would look if I spent a lot more time in including and elaborate sequence to include more credits other than the main characters. I then began immediately thinking of the visual style I wanted for the titles as well as animation and then began downloading fonts courtesy of Openfontlibrary.org, which has many open license and creative commons licensed fonts available for downloaded. With this installed I then went into 3D Studio Max and began creating the main titles (image above) . As this film was the last in a trilogy I took into consideration how the titles could help reinforce that which I achieved by making a conscious decision to only have the main part of the film's title in 3D i.e. "Street Fighter" and add the other the other text within After Effects.
After modelling and animating the main visual elements within 3D Max I exported the frames as a PNGs to maintain the alpha/transparency so that I could composite them within After Effects. Once in After Effects I began editing the film clip I extracted to obtain the audio from the start of and then cut that sequence out so that it began where I wanted. I then rendered out a clip and the last frame of the clip to create the start of the title sequence.
Within Photoshop I took the rendered frame and edited it so that it isolated Sonny Chiba's character (main character) and preserved its transparency by saving it as a PNG file so that I could composite additional visual elements as I had intended within After Effects.
Font reference:
Open Font Library [online] - Available at: http://openfontlibrary.org [cited 1st April 2008]
Initially I began making rough notes (above image) whilst watching the film as to where the original titles were and how effective they were in the film. I then began making a few rough sketches and went straight into editing and extracting the scenes I would alter. The scene I selected was chosen due to the introduction style of the main character and its build up and it also wasn't the location for the original titles which appears later in the film.
With a rough idea of how I wanted the titles to appear I focused on creating a title sequence that would be short and more an example of how it would look if I spent a lot more time in including and elaborate sequence to include more credits other than the main characters. I then began immediately thinking of the visual style I wanted for the titles as well as animation and then began downloading fonts courtesy of Openfontlibrary.org, which has many open license and creative commons licensed fonts available for downloaded. With this installed I then went into 3D Studio Max and began creating the main titles (image above) . As this film was the last in a trilogy I took into consideration how the titles could help reinforce that which I achieved by making a conscious decision to only have the main part of the film's title in 3D i.e. "Street Fighter" and add the other the other text within After Effects.
After modelling and animating the main visual elements within 3D Max I exported the frames as a PNGs to maintain the alpha/transparency so that I could composite them within After Effects. Once in After Effects I began editing the film clip I extracted to obtain the audio from the start of and then cut that sequence out so that it began where I wanted. I then rendered out a clip and the last frame of the clip to create the start of the title sequence.
Within Photoshop I took the rendered frame and edited it so that it isolated Sonny Chiba's character (main character) and preserved its transparency by saving it as a PNG file so that I could composite additional visual elements as I had intended within After Effects.
Within After Effects I imported the edited frame, cut the clip into the footage and imported the 3D titles created in Max. I then began experimenting with visual effects to achieve the right tone for the titles and working with the rendered frame I began compositing elements and text for the sequence.
With this complete I began re-editing the clips so that the original following scene continued after the title sequence.
With this complete I began re-editing the clips so that the original following scene continued after the title sequence.
Font reference:
Open Font Library [online] - Available at: http://openfontlibrary.org [cited 1st April 2008]
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