Kobayashi Maru

Here is my Kinetic Dialog final project for my motion graphics class.  It’s the Kobayashi Maru test scene from Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan.  Text onscreen has to be synced to the dialog from the film, so the story, in theory, can be understood even without the use of sound.  The challenge was to distinguish the text from each speaker (9 speakers) and limit the use of color.

The project contains basic solids, masks, & shapes as well as several items listed below:

• Star Trek font  
• 3d camera  
• animated stroke
• expressions  
• audio wave form fx 
• number fx
• radiowave fx  
• track matte  
• bad tv fx
• keylight fx  
• auto trace  
• channel mixer fx
• time remap  
• gradient ramp  
• radial wipe fx
• graph editor  
• noise

Here's some FYI.  All the vector images were created in Afterfx using the pen tool.  The Millennium Falcon was a youtube movie of a 3D rendered ship on a green screen.  Rolling text for Kobayashi Maru is actually a Kohler order form for a toilet.  The same goes for the Klingon ship but with the insertion of the Playboy magazine logo.

Final Movie

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Reference Images

Kuler

Script