Matgeek is a culinary blog and youtube channel maintained by Johan Hedberg.

He called UP Studio, which trusted me to help create a high-quality sci-fi Intro for their client’s channel.

Client: Matgeek, UP Studio | Direction: Igor Martins | Motion Graphics / Art Direction: Antônio Souza

 
 

The first step was to create a storyboard and animatic which would help as guidelines for the production.

The first screen was designed in Illustrator and After Effects as a Styleframe "to rule them all".

The final look was fixed by this frame and we carefully sticked to it up to the end.

 
 

This project was about technology, so I developed new tools to expand our software arsenal in Houdini.

Check out some of them:

 

Now take a look at this hologram effect I developed for the main objects

(without post-production)

They where crafted in our "effects maker" software, Houdini.

 
 

The project received some attention from the Houdini and Redshift user communities,

and the Redshift team twitted about it:

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