{"id":17611,"date":"2012-06-16T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=6927"},"modified":"2012-06-16T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:34:52","slug":"creating-the-iron-man-hud-for-the-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/16\/creating-the-iron-man-hud-for-the-avengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating the Iron Man HUD for The Avengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VFX team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantinacreative.com\/\">Cantina Creative<\/a> sat down with Adobe to discuss the incredible attention to detail they put into <a href=\"http:\/\/provideocoalition.com\/index.php\/adobe\/story\/Marvels_The_Avengers_Taking_the_HUD_to_new_heights\/\">creating on-screen graphics for Marvel&#8217;s <em>The Avengers<\/em><\/a>. From consulting with an A-10 pilot about his &#8220;ultimate HUD&#8221; to animating thousands of Illustrator elements in After Effects, their process makes for a really interesting read. The move to 3D demanded even tighter craftsmanship:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We focused a lot of time on how widgets and graphics would actually function because everything was clearly readable. Everything in the HUD, even down to the tiny micro-text, relates precisely to the current story-point.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/44134435?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VFX team at Cantina Creative sat down with Adobe to discuss the incredible attention to detail they put into creating on-screen graphics for Marvel&#8217;s The Avengers. From consulting with an A-10 pilot about his &#8220;ultimate HUD&#8221; to animating thousands of Illustrator elements in After Effects, their process makes for a really interesting read. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}