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Big Centre TV Idents — “Meriden”

I created a number of 3D models of local scenes for Big Centre TV to act as a backdrop for their station idents. My favourite of these was the model I created of Meriden, which marks the geographical centre of England and therefore seemed to me to be the perfect location to choose for a Big Centre TV ident.

All of the models I created were made in Blender using photographs I found either on Google Images or Google Street view as source material. I used an excellent Blender add-on called BLAM in order to ascertain a camera position for modelling.

The cross in the centre of the green was the first time I had sculpted something in Blender and I was very pleased with the results for a first attempt.

Another first - I used a particle system to draw the flowers. And to model the flowers themselves, I used the Golden Ratio! The trees are all drawn using the Sapling plug-in, my favourite thing in the whole of Blender. I love trying to copy different sorts of trees with it.

The logo form-ups were created in two different packages. The 5 second and 10 second logo form-ups were created in Synfig Studio. However, I created the 20 second logo form up entirely in Blender, as I wanted to have the logo form-up available in two software packages so I was not reliant on just one. The Blender version is a mixture of 3D shapes drawn in Inkscape and heavy use of the Blender compositor. The Synfig Studio form-up is entirely done using Synfig layers.

The music for these idents was created in Rosegarden. It's rather strident (unpleasantly so) so I'm currently working on toning it down!

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