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This is a Fictional User Interface I designed and animated in Cavalry. I was attempting to use as many features as I could whilst trying to stay true to the inspiration that inspired the overall design. Films like Alien (1979) and Moon (2009) heavily influenced these designs and I would highly suggest that anyone interested in screen design for film to check them out. The benefit of Cavalry is that I did not have to hand animate most of these designs. The only things that I hand animate are the entrance and exit animations to transition through screens.

This set of FUI screens was made mainly because I watch too many sci-fi films a I seem to be inexplicably drawn to the user interfaces I see so naturally want to have a go.

I wanted to make something that looked like it could live in the "Alien" (1979) franchise, or at least the earlier films. Having researched the Semiotic Standard, a visual language, created by Rob Cobb for the Alien films I was itching to make something that had a little more meaning than just meaningless screen greebles.

As a result I tried to attribute a function to all of the various bits and bobs you can see above. I wanted these to be clear and legible while still falling within the functional needs of the system as a whole.

The system I imagined controls the energy supply to large vessels or compounds requiring huge amounts of energy over long periods of time.

I animated all of the screen graphics inside of Cavalry. While the compositing was done inside of After Effects. I tried to keep it procedural where I could, only really hand animating with key frames to transition through the various screen states.

Thanks for checking it out.

@positronic.man

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