Motion Graphics: Project Workflow – Day 1

Motion Graphics: Project Workflow – Day 1

on Feb 26th 2010 with 22 comments
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This entry is part 6 of 9 in the Best of Cinema4D Session
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This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Motion Graphics: Project Workflow

Eventually we all want to move beyond tutorials and actually start to deal with clients. Whether at a production house or on your own, one of the most fundamental aspects of professional design is a solid project workflow. In this tutorial series, we’ll examine the different aspects of working in a project-like environment, and how our techniques interact with a client in a real-world situation.

Okay, full disclosure; I’m not saying that what I’m going to show here is going to work for everyone. This is just how I’ve done design and dealt with clients during the years that I’ve been doing this, and I can only hope that you take away something when it comes to moving on and looking to do this as a career. Remember that this is just an example and a guideline on the “hows and whys” of project workflow and management, and not the final word. And if any of you seasoned pros out there have any of your own tips to add, please be sure to share them in the comments so the greenhorns can learn something!

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I'm Harrison and I've been a designer for what feels like an eternity. I currently do broadcast design and animation, but like most of us, I'm restless and have been known to pick up a camera. When I'm not holding the reigns of my MacPro, I'm either living an energy drink ad (biking, kayaking, running), or cooking (mostly French, but some Italian). You can check out some of the projects I've worked on at my website: www.harrisonambs.com, or follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/harrisonambs.  

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  • Naveen

    Thx for sharing!

  • Stefan

    Awesome tutorial! The only thing i didn’t like is the audio quality.. Terrible audio quality ruins the whole tutorial :(

    • http://www.harrisonambs.com Harrison
      Author

      Yeah, about that, I’m really sorry, but the flash compression really ate it on this file for some reason.

      The other 2 parts of this tutorial are much better as far as audio quality goes. If it bothers enough people, I’ll talk to Kaleb and see if I can get another version up with better audio quality.

      Man, it ruined the tutorial AND got a frowny-face? And my Friday was looking so good today…

      • Stefan

        The idea for uploading another version of the tutorials with fixed audio sounds great! Again awesome tutorial man! Great work flow :)

      • http://monolithcreative.com jason

        try setting a higher audio bit rate next time you squeeze your flv. the file size will be a little larger but your audio will be better. since the flv is being linked why don’t you just go ahead and re-squeeze it and replace the existing flv. no one will ever know.

  • luantran

    Motion graphic? he he, yes i very like. Thanks for share
    tuts goood

  • LuiSerrano

    Thanks for sharing… cool GFX. environment amazing!

  • Wesley

    C’mon people, stop complaining abou the audio… Is not the best audio ok, but record another version of the tutorial only because of this? C’mon.

    The tutorial is great. Awaiting next part!

    • Stefan

      Not recording another version.. just converting the original avi file into flv file with different settings in order to get better quality of the audio.

  • http://www.aetraining.weebly.com David_97

    As long as I can hear the voices, it’s great :)

    Nice tut.

  • Balaji

    Yeah another great tutorial!

  • XtreMedia Bigz

    excellent tuts.. thanks… looking forward for the others

  • digitalove

    its great to see the workflow of another motion designer. Great job! :D

  • dimib

    I can’t see the preview movie. Anybody else?

    • timurko

      Just wait…

  • http://thisiscomix.com Sam

    Thanks a lot for these, very helpful indeed.

    Over my days of using Illustrator and C4D i found a small tip to help import paths. After you have created your image in Illustrator (either by Live trace/Expand or Manually) Save as .EPS file with Illustrator 8 as the version. For reasons unknown to me, C4D seems happier using that file and imports all the paths of the image correctly and separately. (ie you wouldn’t need separate them in C4D.)

    Just my 2 cents for the day.

    Looking forward to part 3

  • rizzo

    my ears are bleeding. but really good tutorial thanks!

  • marcelo_cabral

    Hi man
    thanks for all yours tips. This is what all we was wondering for a long time, cose this knowledge make the diference betwen an amateur and a professional work.
    Thanks for all and please keep sharing your experience with us.

  • bhj

    Sh*t I never even recognised the bad audio until someone had to point it out! Great tutorial on the subject matter it was covering (I mean what anal retention does it take to crit the slightly noisey audio when the tut was focused on outstanding CG and AE combination. Christ). Well done.

  • aldo

    sry but those 1 FPS video is unwatchable for me, I can barely follow your steps

  • Keejay

    Thank you so much.. I learn New things :)

  • http://Coatofarmspost.com Coat of Arms

    Here’s a blog post about the “post-production roadmap” when it comes to motion design:

    http://coatofarmspost.com/articledetail13_APost-ProductionRoadmapwithTellabs.php