Pattern Recognition

This piece is a motion 

graphics piece that is 

really just for fun.  

In my motion graphics 

class our assignment 

was to read a novel, 

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, 

and make a motion intro for the movie based 

on one of the themes in the novel. For this 

piece I used a panoramic picture of Times Square,

built a cube world, and completely masked it 

out. I remade all the labels. The main character, 

Cayce Pollard is dressed in all black and she is 

a coolhunter who has a phobia of trends, labels, 

and anything that may become trendy. The 

idea was to create this imaginary world in 

which she is haunted by the very thing that 

scares her the most. This is why all of the 

characters look alike. I used AfterEffects 

and Photoshop to create this piece. In order 

to put each character in the intro, I took still 

pictures in different outfits and color keyed them 

in AfterEffects.  Hope you enjoy.