Gallery for Geomancy Shapes.

CyberMotion, a Los Angeles motion graphics design studio, was founded by Trish and Chris Meyer. The studio specializes in high-impact, multi-layered 2D and 3D graphics for video and film, pieces which are often tightly integrated with music.

The Meyers used Geomancy in a video created for the introduction of the Isuzu Ascender SUV at U.S. auto shows. Trish used the plugin GridSquares as a matte for still images of the vehicle. Then she mixed the matted images with displaced ones, and processed original images to create a sense of depth.

Isuzu Ascender video [play]

A 2002 project is a title sequence for a long-form commercial for Natural Advantage, a skin care product. Steve said, "I tend to pre-render and blend my Geomancy layers when using them for texture creation.

"If you know your basic movements, you can set up GridSquares in a few pleasing configurations for that scene then pre-render with alphas. Reimport, throw in some gradient ramps and blend. I find the result is more rich and organic looking (and faster) than multiple fx layers."

Another of Steve's projects, created in 2005, is an ambient identity animation for a lifesciences company. "On the Medex example, the large pillows of color were created with a particle effect, the white lines with grid squares.

"The parameters of the grid on which the particles operate were duplicated in the GridSquares plug-in and the two effects lined up surprisingly well. To get around a limitation of the particle effect, I built this sequence in reverse, then time stretched the final render -100%."

Client: Natural Advantage [play]

Client: Medex. Job: Logo Animation [play]