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CBS News Weekend - From Chicago with new Intro

LWTfan1968 posted:
May I also point out that despite knowing already that CBS and ATV had similar logos, I did not realize the shape of ATV's eye was in CBS's until now!

It's more like CBS' eye was in the ATV logo.

https://www.atvtoday.co.uk/p3622-cbs/
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N8 2002-2003 Recreation

Good work. But what’s with the random pattern over the render?
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BBC News Channel

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Just an update on progress to date (this is a still of a frame from the render as I'm having issues with AE at the moment).

I've moved the camera position so the globe is closer, and made the city lights react to the shadow of the earth. I need to tighten up the cat's cradle within the globe, frankly it's a headache!

The countdown numbers have remained in roughly the same place, but are now mostly inside of the globe (I wanted to make it feel like it has its roots in the 1999 countdown sequence).

The logo now animates differently (and you can't see that in a still image) so it slides out of view and back in, similar to the headlines text on the current graphics package.
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Ballyboy Asks a Question

You can either write an expression (I am too thick for this) that offsets each character or manually keyframe each letter change on the text

I.e TV FORUM and then a frame later VF ORUMT and so on.

As Bail previously said think about how they would have done it when they created it and you won’t go too far wrong.

I honestly think you should start with stills though, you can’t just jump in with something like AE and learn it overnight, I know my way around it but I’m by no means perfect or an expert.
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BBC News Channel

As I have been self isolating and unable to go to work I've had time to expand on an idea I posted in another mockers' thread.

It's a countdown/breakfiller type thing in the style of the '2003 BBC News post global warming world' graphics (sans Clamshell) and the 1999 style decoding text, with a little bit of a twist on the 2008 'cat's cradle'.

The general idea is the area to the right would become an area for promotions, some headlines or generic trailers, how that would be implemented I don't know.

Worth developing or just abandon it? The logo zoom at the end was a last minute addition and certainly isn't final.
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CITV Gas Street cut-outs

Neil Jones posted:
It isn't a state secret they were sharing space with Central News, that much is given. I think by that point the bulk of if not all Central's productions had moved to Nottingham, and its my belief Gas Street was never intended for that much besides the local news and the continuity/playout - adding CITV onto it was effectively an afterthought.

Gas Street had 2 studios, 1 true studio which was large enough for the CNW set from 1997, the other was used as a CITV continuity studio and weather studio (was on the first floor ISTR). It was an empty space until 2007, with CITV 'set' items still stored in there until the building was sold and refurbished
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BBC News - Custom Design

Not wishing to threadjack, but this must be the week of seeking inspiration from older designs as I was coming up with a World 2007 inspired graphics countdown. Merging the post-climate change world with the 1999 elements and countdown...
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bkman1990 and C.Channel04 gave kudos
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Longest-running BBC idents

Ant posted:
The BBC Learning Zone acorn ident must be up there - 1997 to 2015 I think. Amazing it lasted so long really - the very dated web browser was always a nice throwback although I think the ident was shortened at some point?

Along with the May 97 dated clapperboard with the actual directors' name on it; only shown in the long ident - I think they would occasionally still show the long ident, certainly towards the end.

It's just a shame they binned it off, I always liked it. If the browser screenshot was removed or replaced I think it would have aged very well!

It did demonstrate the robustness of the original 1997 design, the logo, the fault caption and the menus all just worked... It makes me smile to think that all of those elements were physically moved and either recreated as close as they could be or wholesale just ported over to different playout areas.
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BBC & Ravensbourne University Motion Graphics Archive

https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/rhythm-movement-bollywood-dancers-ident-2002

What's that in the bottom left...
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BBC Newsline In Form of July 2019 Reith Regional News Look

rfr1 posted:
Can only echo what Ittr has said. You’ve changed a template around (which in itself isn’t completely accurate, the wipe to the programme title is too fast and not as fluid as the official sequence) without taking it apart and working with it to create even part of a full sequence.

I’d keep going with this rather than binning and deleting it as per many of your other mocks, but work on other shots in the sequence and, talking from a stylistic point of view and also bearing in mind this may help broaden your horizons in After Effects and give you a challenge: maybe find a way to include the Newsline yellow/amber in the rings along with the BBC News red.


Exactly what is said here; the original template was made in my spare time for people to mess with and have an idea on how to change it, all you've done is change the programme name, BBC News box and place names and insert your own footage.

Look at how the individual elements come together and go from there - don't just assume because you have a template it's 'your' work. As rfr1 has also said it's not a 100% accurate template at that!
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BBC & Ravensbourne University Motion Graphics Archive

Some of the regional programmes are on there, including these awfully awesome Midlands Report titles from 1990
https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/midlands-report-1991
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YouTube Gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZ5APqApKg

My inner geekiness is loving this interesting mix of CBS Evening News cues that only some have been broadcast before (Election 2016)