In this After Effects tutorial I show you how to use Trapcode 3D Stroke to create the arrows and lines I have in the Animate Objects music video “El Dorado.”

I thought I would share some information about the people and the time that went into the latest project I’ve completed, the Animate Objects El Dorado music video.

The music video for me kicked off in April 2007 when Mathias Sorum contacted me about doing motion graphics on a music video. Mathias already had an idea of the vision for the music video, he went over the ideas with me and we discussed how it all could work. The entire video was going to be shot on green screen. Overall the project sounded great and I was looking forward to bringing what I could to the table.The video was shot at Resolution Studios in May 2007. Joshua Reis was the DP for the video and understood very well what needed to be done for a green screen shoot to work in post. Once the HD footage was transferred Maeve Price took care of editing the green screen rough cut. Having a rough cut and shots picked was very important before beginning the motion graphics. The edit was finalized in August 2007 and then I began the motion graphics work. By the time I started the work on the video, Nik Madalinksi who was going to be assisting me on the video had moved to Cambodia. Due to his slow Cambodian internet issue he was unable to help as much as we had originally talked about back in May. Nik was able to contribute what he could and he did the graffiti names of the three mc’s along with the 4/5 drawn stills for each of the three mc’s. I continued working on the video on and off in my free time. In early November I had a rough cut together of the video and it was getting close to completion. And by January I had an almost fully finished version and was ready to get notes from the band and see what needed to be tweaked to make the video rock. Mathias Sorum and I sat down and went over what we still wanted to see done. Early February 2008 the video was completed.

I hope you enjoy it. 4:30 minutes of green screen footage is a lot for one motion graphics artist to take on but I think I was able to produce a great piece of work.

For the past few months I have been working on a music video for Animated Objects. Overall it is moving along, but not nearly as quickly as I would of liked. Maeve helped would with the editing of the video and Nik is assisting with some graphics. The entire video is green screen at 1920 x 1080. 4 minutes of HD video takes awhile. I hope to have a full rough cut I can share at some point.

For now I thought I would share a couple low resolution stills from the project.