10th April After Effects

Today we started by finishing the Oman TV logo that we started on the 9th.

We had to add the text on at the bottom of the logo. We decided to add a blured trail as it moved onto the screen. We did this using the time/echo effect. This effect only works on Pre-composed layers and text. You cannot use this effect on a layer that has a keyframes as it renders its echo from the original layer info, not the keyframed info. We precomposed the layer with the motion keyframed and added the echo effect. We tweaked the echo time, decay and echo number parameters to come up with this.

We then added a background using the fractal technique we learnt on 9th March.

This is the final animation.

We decied to now make another animation using the same logo. We decided to make this one 3D and unlike the other one which grew from the inside out, we thought it wold be good to have the pieces of the logo come together from off screen.

We did this with some simple 3d animating of the layers positioning. After we’d done this, we added a camera which we animated to rotate around the logo.

We then added another background made up from a few fractals, some colour correction and blur and added some glow around the whole logo. We then added some simple sound effects to emphasise the collisions of the layers.

9th April 2008

Today we decided to design a sting for Oman TV. To to this we would take the logo and make it grow a part at a time until the logo was complete. Here is the original logo that was designed on softimage

The first thing we had to to was separate all the elements on to different layers. We did this using Photoshop. Once we had done this, we imported the photoshop file into After Effects as a composition.

We wanted the centre circle to appear from white, like a sun. We decided to do this using the new CC light rays effect. By keyframing the intensity from a lager number to a small number, we gave the impression of an extremely bright light coming into focus. We also changed the colour to white.

The next thing we did was generate a Write-on to reveal the rim of the center. We drew a mask around the circle making sure we pre-composed it first. We then used the co-ordinates of the mask to generate the write on. We then deleted the mask.

We then animated the “sunbeams” that are eminating from the circle. We did this by changing the anchor point of each beam their base and keyframing the scale of all of them. We used the sequence layers tool to automatically sequence them. We added an ease in to the last of each keyframe to smooth the motion.

The next thing we animated was the flag in the center. We did this using the same technique as we used on the titles we created on 25th Febuary. A simple animated mask was used to make the flag appear.

Next we grew the vines at the bottom of the logo. We did this using exactly the same technique as the vines we created on 22nd Feb.We then added a simple light to give them more depth and also added another light rays effect. We animated the center point to make the light move through the vines.

The last thing we did today was the center logo. Again we used the CC light rays effect to give the impression a very bright light shinning through the logo. We used two copied of the logo, one just for the bright glow and the other for the logo on the top. We key-framed this to appear once the light had died down.

The final result of the day.