Sky Sports Similarity 2

This ident was actually released in 2007. Sky Sports has kept conformity within their idents which helps to keep the channel recognizable amongst other sports channels such as Setanta.

I will use the same kind of conformity within my idents, by using basic animation and close up camera shots I hope to make the idents similar.

Sky Sports Idents Similarity

This Ident was released in 2004, all Sky Sports idents around this time had the blue background with the famous sports stars as seen in the video here and above.

Ident 1 - Sky Sports

The 1st ident I created for Sky Sports is of a basketball falling from the sky, bouncing multiple times and then rolling off the scene. "Sky Sports" then rises from the floor.

The ident took about 5 weeks to complete, as I modeled the majority of the scene from scratch.
The basketball was made using an online tutorial. The seats are made using basic shapes and then a mesh smooth was added with multiple iterations to give it the rounded effect, these were then duplicated.
The basketball hoop was modeled from scratch by eye, with the backboard designed in Photoshop.
The floor is a plane with a hardwood and raytrace map added to it, I created the textured effect by using a bump map and adding the same image of hardwood to the map.

To get the ball to bounce and roll I used Reactor, this took quite a while to do as it took many attempts of trial and error and tweaking of the elasticity and friction settings to get a realistic looking bounce.
I made the Sky Sports font rise through the floor by using Auto key on the time line and then moving the text to the required position. I then added some spotlights and an omni light to really bring the scene to life

Finally, I rendered the file as an uncompressed AVI and used Adobe Premiere to add sound and export the final animation.

Overall I am very happy with how my ident has turned out and hope the other two will be just as successful.