Re: Light Flux

[david bogie] "I know you want this to be a cool DVD but creating movies behind menus and animating transitions and all that stuff gets to be very tedious for viewers."

In my work I usually try to make the menu loops fairly simple and elegant (i.e. floating bits of light, smoke drifting, etc.) but the most important thing is that it fits with whatever the feature is. If this is a reel then something understated and awesome (thank you www.thesaurus.com!) would work well.

However, I love making surprising and/or unique transitions that involve elements in both the source and destination media. The transition will likely only be seen once, so it isn't really over kill if it's something super fancy. The only thing to consider is that people don't want to wait for their menus, so try to keep transitions around 3-5 seconds.

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA