Spin My Logo
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.
7 appreciated comments, click here to add one
Gerardo
I loved those animations, simple and nice.
Aug 31st, 2010
Angus
Very nice animations and explanation.
Aug 31st, 2010
Stripeyhorse
Dont think they could do much with our logo :)
Sep 1st, 2010
victoria mills
Simple and effective… really enjoyed this.
Sep 1st, 2010
Adam
Very cool effect, really sets the logo off nicely…
Sep 6th, 2010
Amanda
I actually really like it when logos are animated, I think most logos would do well with a bit of nifty animation to them.
I think it can be a good way of highlighting the meaning behind a logo icon as well.
Sep 22nd, 2010
David Airey
I agree, Amanda. It’s a good skill to have, and one I’d like to learn.
Sep 22nd, 2010
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