Tribe Brand Communication Showreel 2011 from Tribe Brand Communication on Vimeo.

So I’ve been a busy bee the past 3 months, working on the tribe showreel. It’s finally complete and released into the wild..

I’m putting together a how it was made post soon..

I did get time to produce the following little edit. While on the slope I had the idea of the camera pole floating between people by getting someone to carry it from behind. We did a few trial runs and it actually ended up being quite difficult. The person being filmed had to remember not to get the person who handed the camera to them in shot. The person taking the camera around had to make sure their shadow wasn’t in the shot. We tried it a few times, The following edit has been chopped up a bit to make it go to the beat, also to cut out any bits where you could see the carrier.

Magic Floaty Cam from Rob Antill on Vimeo.

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Also I set a new personal best on my board… 61.6mph. It felt so quick. The board behaves quite differently at that kind of speed…

I took this stereographic pic of Olli for a competition. Unfortunately I missed the deadline for the hand in.. Oh well.

This was my second and successful attempt at hitting one of the larger kickers. I had been looking at this all week and thought I might as well go for it on the last day. I hit it with some speed and ended up clearing quite a bit of the landing. I cannot describe the feeling you get as you’re launch off the end of the ramp into oblivion!!

If you want to see more pics head to my flickr and scroll through

Simon did the design and Ben sorted the code.

The site has recently gone live! Below is a screen grab of the finished holding page. Here’s a link to the site (It may have changed).

More on how this was done after the break…

I created the lines in 3Dsmax by first producing a spline then changing its angle so it created an interesting path. I then created a long cylinder and applied the path deform modifier and told it to follow the spline. I duplicated the cylinder and off set it slightly. I set up a camera and made it move forward to give the lines more depth. I played around with the rendering methods to get the desired effect.

Below is the first test where I added a slight transparency to the lines. The reason they are colourless is because I took the rendered images into After Effects and applied the colour then. This allowed for greater flexibility.

I also rendered out a z-depth pass that I originally planned to add to the above render for a depth of field effect. It ended up that I actually colourised the z-depth pass and used that as the final video.

I also added a slight blur and grain effect. I added a black vignette over the entire video so the edge of the flash movie could blend in with the black background of the website.

Below is the rendered video from After Effects.