Discovery Times Channel: Egypt

Title: Mysteries of Egypt, Civilization
Production Company: Picture Mill
Client: Discovery Times Channel
Role: Designer, Animator

These promos were for Mysteries of Egypt and Civilization, a series of documentaries on the Discovery Times Channel that ran in a time block on a single night.  Mysteries of Egypt were for documentaries that focused on a search for lost pharaoh tombs, the Valley of the Kings, and a historical biography of Cleopatra.  Civilization was a broader look back into ancient cultures.

I was the designer on the job, so I created several different design boards to pitch to the client.  After they chose the design they liked best, I continued on as the animator.  Since Civilization was in the same family of documentary programming, we used the same design style, but tweaked the animation a bit to set it a part from the Mysteries of Egypt promo.  (Note: During the design phase, Mysteries of Eygpt was called Egypt Night.)

Here are the design boards that were pitched to the client.  They chose the first one.

Take a look at the designs in action.

Mysteries of Egypt

Civilization