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How did you make the intro animations for Aura?

It was a tool specially designed for the job where you could choose a brush, its size and colour, and it would record all your actions so that it could then dynamically recreate the build-up of the picture.

I was always fascinated by the animations by Michaël Gaumnitz in the eighties and I've always found a kind of magic to watching a drawing being created while I'm watching. The artist leads us where he wants to go, the spectator is guided by the progress.

I knew about this kind of tool in videographers' palettes back then at Beaux Arts and it was that that pushed me to encourage Hervé Adam and Sébastien Miglio to go a bit further and integrate such a tool into Aura (the stroke recorder).

These days, I often go for a walk with a sketchpad and some of the ideas become intros for Aura, which I then put on my website for download.

What are you working on at the moment?

I'm working on another TV ident at the moment. It's quite different to all the ones I've done before but shhhh! I can't talk about it for the moment!

Let us know when you can Olivier!



You can see Olivier's work in Aura and LightWave at his website at
http://www.oliviermichon.fr
 
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