Project Review: Damamges DVD Menu

Frame 000 Showing 2 story Law Library.

Frame 103 approaching the Law book[ menu].

Frame 123 Close on the book.

Frame 171 the book animating open to reveal the menu.

Project Review: Damages Blue-Ray Menu

Client: Sony Pictures via. The Cimarron Group.
Art Director: Brian Larson.
Project Date: Winter 2007

Brian and I had worked ona number of menus, and this one was a fun one. As with most Blue-Ray menus, the budget and time frame are small. To effectively do a 3D menu, it must be done very fast to keep the budget down. For Damages I was not a watcher so first I needed to get familiar with the look they wanted from the show. I examined the show footage and was able to design a Law Library based on the big super graphics used in the show[ in red], as well as basic colors and the Hewes Logo all around. I built, and animated the entire piece in one day of 8 hrs. It took one more 8 Hr day to finalize all aspects and make whatever adjustments were needed, and render out at the HD size.

Cheers, THOM

P.S. Click the Title Post to go to the FX site for the show, or paste in this text into your browser:
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/damages/