DPI Studios CCEE 2011 Promo Video

I created this promo video for the DPI Studios booth at the 2011 Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. It was a spare time project over 5 months to help attract more visitors to our booth at the show but to also re-familiarize myself with After Effects since it had been some time since I had used it.

One of the benefits of the way I do some of my paintings in Photoshop is that their lighting and special effects are contained on separate layers. This allowed me to easily animate different lighting conditions and effects on the characters in After Effects. This was the first time I had done any animation in Vue. I use Vue to create a lot of the static backgrounds for our pictures, but animating and flying through some of those backgrounds was a new experience for me.

Another aspect of the video that I hadn't played with in a while was the score. I used Video Copilots excellent Pro Scores product that comes with a large variety of music and effects perfect for creating movie trailer scores. Since I had created a lot of the animation previous to working with the score I was able to use Pro Scores layered sound tracks and effects to time the music to the animation.

It was the perfect project to reintroduce myself to working with After Effects and I'm quite proud of the results. I'd recommend watching the video full screen in 720p HD to really see the details.