All new animated cover illustration for
BBC Science Focus' latest issue
on the theme of
First Contact and what happens if we discover an extra
terrestrial signal. The brief was to visualise this alien message with a
silhouetted onlooker in a spartan night time landscape and it made sense to add
a radar dish to emphasise the communication theme. With scenes from
Contact, Arrival and Close Encounters swirling around my brain I started
designing. For the signal itself multiple 3d abstract animations were created to
layer up with some optical light effects while the radar dish was modelled in
Cinema 4d and comped into mountain scenery in Photoshop. For the Apple News
cover animation I wanted to move the camera in close to the signal before being
zipped into a wormhole briefly to create a loop. Great fun to work on. See more
Focus work on the main site
here.
