designbump

In this tutorial, we will be creating the Harry Potter text effect with a brilliant stormy night. This type of effect is seen in the trailer of the Harry Potter movies. After seeing them, I got inspired to try it out and the result was quite satisfactory

The main logo design for the Harry Potter series is a simple design with Harry’s name in bold, carved out lettering. It has a jagged look as if it were scratched into a piece of wood or embossed from a piece of wood or even gold. The highlight of the lettering is the lightning bolt shaped “P”, which resembles Harry’s scar.

It's been an another week in motion design, and another week of great links. This week we have links from the CG society, a visual fx breakdown from Harry Potter, Studio AKA's BBC Winter Olympics trailer, Nick Campbell's Matrix style effect in Cinema 4D, Motion Graphics made with programming from Smashing magazine, the co-writer of district 9 speaks at Vancouver Film School and there's an interview with Topher Welsh from Mograph TV.

Despite the mixed reviews amongst people working in design / advertising about Mad Men, I have become addicted. However it is the underlying struggles raised by the characters that stick with me the longest. For example, in this past week’s episode, Harry Crane opens Ken Cosgrove’s paycheck and sees that he makes 300 dollars a week. This is 100 dollars more than he makes, which to Harry begs the question, why? It is not until a discussion with Salvatore the Art Director that he realizes where he is lacking, and where this article will begin.