User Profiles

Dan Warvi - Graphics Producer for KUSA-TV
Jason Hirsch – Art Director for KUSA-TV

 

Tell me about KUSA-TV

KUSA-TV is the number one local news source in Colorado, based in Denver. In April 2004 the station set the record by becoming the first NBC affiliate to broadcast in HD. Today the station airs roughly nine hours of news a day, and produces about two to three commercials a week. This number can double during sweeps.  

 

Dan Warvi - Graphics Producer for KUSA-TV

"We use After Effects and the plug-in Delirium to produce all of our commercials because it is reliable and fast. The presets available within Delirium have been a saving grace.  I don’t have the time to really finesse the effects since the stuff I make has to be turned out in a day. Delirium has great presets for almost all of the effects, and I can go from there quickly to make what I want.  For example, we recently created a commercial promoting a health fair in which we used Delirium’s Fairy Dust special effect. It added just enough sparkle for a clever, yet timely, spot.”   

 

 

Effect: Fairy Dust

 

Jason Hirsch – Art Director for KUSA-TV

“I like Delirium’s diverse selection of plug-ins.  There are some very good options for creating desired results with Delirium. Whether I need a realistic looking camera shake, or an electrifying effect that gives a “spark” to my animation, Delirium provides me with the needed tools. I think these are a great for anyone in the motion graphics field.”

 

 

Effect: FIRE
Summary: I used this effect to give the shatter a bit more life. It’s handy to have the option to generate the fire from a layer’s alpha channel.

 

Effects: ELECTRICAL ARCS and FIRE
Summary: I used Fire to create a big explosion (fire ball). I used Arcs to generate the effect of the scoreboard giving off electricity which creates the fire ball. This was one of the first projects I used Delirium on.

 

Effect: LOOSE SPROCKETS
Summary: I had a very cool camera move around the stadium, but something seemed very unnatural in the transition into the spin. I actually used Loose Sprockets to create a blurring effect, which smoothed out the transition from flying the camera toward the stadium and starting the spin around.

 

Effects: LOOSE SPROCKETS and FIRE
Summary: Loose Sprockets gave me the earthquake effect that I was going for once the giant stamp hit. Fire was used to create the flames shooting up from the logo, which is a reference to what the AFL actually does before games with fire.

 

Effect: ELECTRICAL ARCS
Summary: This plug-in worked great for creating that electrical field that you fly through in this tunnel.