Mood is everything

This project was about making an animated artwork and UI for an update of UVI Falcon popular Atmospherics library.

Inspiration came from talks with the team and listening to sound demos.

My approach to immersive, photorealistic 3D scenes is always that the result should look like a pleasant place or moment to be in / witness. For Atmospherics I wanted the user to feel like witnessing a supernatural phenomenon while sipping a latte from a cosy lounge.

Slow motion

One approach I developed in past years - cf. Piano Colors - is to tune motion design for sample libraries around three axis:

• Non intrusive -> motion should not be distractive as the poduct is used for work and has to maintain user focus and live alongside other plugins.
• Multidimensional -> the artwork animation should have more than one movement and ideally they should overlap in ways that make them feels part of a single scene and not separated areas.
• Preset dependent -> Skimming through presets should make the artwork change, as a visual projection of the content variety.