I'm looking to hire someone to create a short (30-60 second) animated video promoting the third edition of my morbid, apocalyptic deck of tarot cards. I have all the cards designed and the box is being developed now, and I have usable placeholder art for the box.
I feel like what I am looking for is fairly straight forward, but I will leave that to your determination. Because the cards are very dark and grim, I want the video to look as heavy and as intense as possible, and definitely not clean, so no lens flares or shiny stuff. The story for the cards is set during the end of the human race, as the world is being swallowed up by a vast storm of black smoke - so big emphasis on apocalyptic scale and the sheer terror of the smoke. The goal is to make people feel like they are buying something truly horrifying and arcane, like they'll open the box and toxic black smoke will fill the room.
What I had in mind is as follows: Billowing clouds of dense, gritty, black, smoke. The cards are being tossed around in the smoke, as if lost in a tornado. Cards flash closer to the lens, slowing down momentarily to give glimpses at the detail on the artwork - while other cards are seen in the background. Smoke rushes around - more slowdowns for detail - more cards rushing around inthe background, et cetera. It ends with a roaring rush of smoke, and all the smoke, and all the cards are sucked into a model of the box, arranging themselves neatly and rapidly as they are sucked up. Basically, video of a board game box being blasted open, and having a huge cloud of black smoke and tarot cards rushing out - but then play it backwards. As the the lid of the box closes over the cards, the box faces the screen dead-on and the lighting fades until it is just the cover art of the box.
As for sound, I might have a guy who can do sound to match the video, but I might also be interested in what you can do. If you're interested in that, we can talk more - about what kind of sound I'm looking for.
I would want this by mid-January at the latest, as the Kickstarter doesn't go live until Feb. 1st.
Does this sound like something you'd be interested in? Let me know!
