The Brief: select one broadcast network to create (2) 5 second seasonal network IDs. It may be holiday-specific or seasonal (winter, spring, summer, fall).

From the moodboard: "Winter spreads its icy fingers across the landscape. A frosty stillness falls everywhere but on these artworks. The painting/sculpture comes to life -- branches crackle across the screen, frigid stones multiply, textured with the season’s rime. The camera pulls back to reveal that the arctic scene is contained to a frame on the wall of a toasty warm Smithsonian gallery wall."

The premise of the piece is that the Smithsonian Channel offers the viewer context for art/culture and gives it dimensionality. We visit the work of two of my favorite artists and enter those worlds.

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Clipped out a bunch of leaves for this. If I had to redo this shot, I would probably use actual footage of the ground and leaves instead of still image.

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The sound for each season changes from outdoor environmental, to ambient gallery noise as the animation segues from one locale to the next.

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I watched "Alex Katz: Five Hours" (a documentary in which Katz paints one of his signature paintings) and I tried to replicate Katz's strokes using Prismacolor markers on vellum. I scanned the individual trees and used those as textures on 2d planes in a 3d set. The camera dollys out through the forest and breaks the fourth wall into the gallery. It was a lot harder than expected to get a smooth transition from the 3d shot to the 2d. 

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