The theme of CMYK is so awesome because everywhere we look and everything we see is based of those 4 beautiful colors. Its such a universal language in design that I couldnt resist taking the time to do one. As the rules state, its no more that 5 seconds long. Thats it. I’ve see a lot of amazing work done in 5 seconds so I just wanted to try something new. Andrew Kramer from Video Copilot loves particles. I mean… LOVES particles and he also broadcasts a ton of amazing tutorials. On his blog he posted a project that used many different particle emitters in sync to audio. But the way he did it was pretty awesome. He based not only the amount of particles but the velocity at which they emitted with some basic interpolation expressions and the result was amazing. So I wanted to experiment with my own music doing a similar effect and what better way to try something new than to have a project that can be so vibrant with color like CMYK.

I used Cinema 4D to model and texture the letters as well as animate the camera. I tried a bunch of different things with nulls and ended up with a compositing tag on a null rotating the type so when I exported the AE file I linked my light to the path and then had all of my emitters emit from the light. I also have Video Copilots optical flairs and thats the shiny tip of the emitters.

The audio is from Sasha’s Airdrawndagger. I took the intro 5 seconds from Drempels and the beat from Wavy Gravy and slapped them together inside of Ableton live. Since I had the melody, bass line, bass drum and rim shot on separate tracks I time stretched everything to match up then exported the different tracks and put them into AE. From there I used Red Giants Sound Keys to get my frequency data for my expressions and there you have it.

After compositing everything and I wanted to add some motion blur, depth of field and a little twitch that syncs to the bass drum. I used RSMB and Frischlufts Depth of Field along with Video Copilots twitch to get the final touches in place. The render had some issues because I am exporting so many particles that the processor really has to think about it. I’m pushing this computer as far as I can with this project and its pretty cool to watch this come to life. I hope you enjoy the 5 seconds and wish me luck in the competition. Did I mention that? Yeah, there are prizes involved too!

It was kind of a pain to get this project to get of after effects. I had a lot of issues with the particles. The computer just couldn’t handle all of them… I also had problems with the audio export from AE. The sync was way off and I had to cut it out and add it in FCP… I’ll try to render a new one on my Mac at home and see what happens.

CMYK GSG 5 Sec Project Entry from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

So the first thing that I was asked to do was to create the companies Intro and Outro graphics. Simple task huh? The intro was to just a simple logo reveal and let people know who’s game this is. The other video producer here, Jason, had a simple vision and so I executed it in C4D. The outro was to be a little bit more elaborate and I had freedom to do what I wanted. So what I wanted to do was reveal a world with a sun, have the logo fly in over it and have our horizon line reveal by having the world somehow transform into it. So here are both of those videos for you to enjoy.

Perfect World Entertainment Intro Slate from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Perfect World Entertainment Logo Animation from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

We just released open beta for our latest release, Battle of the Immortals and its speeding up to be quite the amazing game. We’ve had a lot of great response and the user feedback has really been essential to the development of the game. Its pretty awesome to see our developers be so in-tune with what the community wants and they make changes to the game based on those requests. Simple things like the in-game font, WASD movement and also new dungeons that give players a bigger challenge vs the typical instance run. I got a chance to create some developer diaries as well as our official Open Beta gameplay trailer. This game is a lot of fun to play and I think I had more fun playing than actually editing the game… lol.

Battle of the Immortals – Post Mortem from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Battle of the Immortals – Adventures from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Battle of the Immortals – Open Beta Gameplay Trailer from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

The next task I got to do was the Forsaken World logo animation. Since china only has the chinese version and we are making the E3 gameplay trailer for it I got my hands all over do the animation. It was a fun challenge to learn how to make fire wrap around 2D text and I learned a few new tricks on this one!

Forsaken World Logo Animation from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Lastly, or at least the latest video that I can show publicly until after E3 is our Heroes of Three Kingdoms teaser. This is the first gameplay video about the game and I was excited to make it! The animations were a lot of fun to do too. Using concept art and doing a kind of Sherlock Holmes approach to it (the movie titles for the new movie) with ink style dissolves between rulers of the three kingdoms. Check out the video below!

Heroes of Three Kingdoms Teaser from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

I’ve got a couple more to upload and release as soon as I am able to so stay tuned and thanks for reading! Now if you want to learn more about the company, go to www.perfectworld.com or check out our youtube channel for all of our trailers!