Ye Jacobites By Name

I was comissioned to make an opening map graphic, logo, and end title card for the Scottish short film YE JACOBITES BY NAME. I produced a 1700s-era map of Scotland based on old military maps, animated a digital camera move that marries with a real drone shot of Duncarron village (where the film was shot), and wrangled the VFX to fill the map with blood as the Jacobites' war against the English raged on and on and on. Blender + After Effects.

I designed the title lockup and map in Illustrator, applied old parchment effects and distress in Photoshop & After Effects (the latter has far better displacement, roughing, and FX tools in my experience). Animation was in Blender, with final compositing back in After Effects again, before sending off to the director.

Early animation blocking and blood VFX tests using Blender's Dynamic Paint system.

Left: i set up a particle system as the brush for the blood dynamic paint. The emitter is a large donut shape orbiting the village at the end of the camera move, so that it gets surrounded by blood & war as the shot goes on. I manually dropped some larger blobs to add expanding blood in specific places. Right: Bloody parchment dynamic paint node tree

John Elphinstone's 1745 "A New & Correct Map Of North Britain" that i used as reference for my medival cartography. Designed in Illustrator, i added coastal marks, waves, and other little effects in After Effects using shape layers, repeaters, fractal noise, displacement, and layer mattes.

CREDITS
Ye Jacobites By Name

A film by Daniel Maslen & Charlie Allan

Clanranald Productions

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