17.12.2017 Smartphone Stand Animation

17.12.2017
Kilian Mehringer
3D Artist

The year 2017 was awesome. Alot of cool projects with great people!
I want to thank all of them. To do this fitting the way this company works i decided to create a product that i can 3d print and send them as a present.

I had some crazy ideas. But the best one that was also possible to make in this short amount of time was a simple 3d printable smartphone stand with the Visual3D logo printed in it.
At first i started with some sketching and created a 2d version of the ortographic side cut of the stand. This side cut was the base template i started from to create the 3d version in Fusion360. Given to its very simple nature the 3d model was made extremely fast and i started printing the first version.
The print turned out great. But the hight of the lip at the front was not high enough so my smartphone cant stand safe on it. But that was not a big deal to change in in the Fusion360 Files and print a new one. This one was perfect and i started to print all of them.
While the 3d printer was working on the final prints i decided to create a booklet and the short sozial media spot you can see here, so it shows the full potential our work can bring to a product.
Fot this step i exported the final model from Fusion360 and imported it into Blender3D to create the animation. I also made the smartphone to show how the product works and made some pruduct renders.
But the goal was a animated spot. For that i needed the right song. So i had to search a while unti i got one i liked and i had an idea to. The idea was to make a video with quick and hard cuts between the scenes ending in a slower shot where i wanted to present the product. I started with a small storyboard and created a test animation in Blender.
After some rendering and optimizations i created the final video in After Effects and Premiere and im very happy how it turned out.

Musik: Pump Sting Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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