Monday August 30, 2010 20:39

Spin My Logo

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Dan Johnson is a producer and motion artist at Panda Motion. As part of a promotion for Panda Motion’s sister company, Spin My Logo, Dan took two of my past projects and set to work animating the designs.

The results offer a nice accompaniment to the static brandmarks.

Miskeeto

“I made a rippled pulse with varying degrees of opacity. This was then set as the alpha layer to the text in order to reveal it. The wings were made 3d and rotated on the y axis.”
— DAN JOHNSON

Giacom

“All the pie wedges were parented to a null object. I applied an expression to the rotation that drives the rotation based on the circumference of the circle.”
— DAN JOHNSON

You can see how these animations relate to the static logos here in my portfolio: the Miskeeto portfolio entry, and that for Giacom.

Subscribers may need to visit the LDL site to view the short clips.

Spin My Logo Contest 2010

Dan’s offering a free HD logo animation to nine of you. Here’s the info.

Three logos will be chosen each month for the next three months (on September 30th, October 31st, and November 30th). All you have to do to enter is become a fan of Spin My Logo on Facebook, and upload your logo(s) on the wall.*

There are three winning categories each month:

Random Win: Anyone can win, and random means random.
Staff Pick: The logo that most inspires us.
Popular Vote: The logo with the most “likes.” (Votes have to be on the Spin My Logo Facebook page and not on your personal profile in order to count.)

Full contest rules on the Spin My Logo website.