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- fiesta0
not everything can be solved by googling a tutorial
- detritus0
Take out ALL the effects and animations, bar the brush stroke 'Viva la vida' one - then make those 1/4 speed.
After that, I don't know.
- detritus0
Also - what's the thinking behind the slide animation of the dude?
It doesn't make any sense at all - if you must animate him somehow - have him fade in from black, or something.
Animation is contextual - something very wrong is happening if a human being is sliding in horizontally at a few tens of miles an hour, then stopping suddenly. Animation must be believable - if he wa sliding in like that, where's the whiplash, recoil and blood seeping out of the nostrils?
- fiesta0
"something very wrong is happening if a human being is sliding in horizontally at a few tens of miles an hour"
FUCKING LOL'D
- ukit0
I saw a nice-looking banner someone did for Joe Satriani recently. Might want to take a look at that for inspiration.
- fyoucher10
Yeh, simplify it. A lot. Keep the effects subtle and tasteful. Get rid of any sliding movements, either on the guy or copy. Stick to effects where things are fading in somehow. Get creative.
- yeah.. that's what my previous ones have been like, and marketing dudes go "needs to be punchier!" ..."more impact" ..Projectile
- ..and they they start coming up with their own "ideas"... ned i say more? fmlProjectile
- brandelec0
i would start over.. less is more
- dMullins0
You should make the write-on text happen faster.
- harlequino0
Replace Chris Martin with Joe Cocker. Just cuz.
- set0
As far as being distracting and annoying its very effective!
Bloody banners...
:D
- exactly.. don't make it too distractingbrandelec
- brandelec...have you ever MET a marketing guy before?Projectile
- yup, i work for a half dozen :)brandelec
- Etype0
my eyes burn
- brandelec0
projectile, here's a couple i did last year. originally made it much simpler.. but like you said marketing wants more in your face effects sometimes...
http://sbrbs.com/sites/echo/
- Projectile0
...so, basically, what i'm starting to conclude from this is I should give it to them with a few minor tweaks mentioned to keep them happy, and make a mellow version for my portfolio. and replace the image with a shopped one of someone else fucking gwyneth paltrow. Or a photo of myself fucking gwyneth for that matter...
- Projectile0
NSFW>>>
- Projectile0
oh and it's meant to be viewed at 160x600.. no idea how to show it any other way..
- skt0
it would probably help if you put it in html so it was the correct size.