Project #6 - Text

Fiddled around with some of the text similar to the presets and didn't like that style. Decided to employ some more 3D cameras and liked that much more. This video was the best of my attempts. Simple text with some embellishments.

Project # 5

After trying out various 3D intro-type sequences I was unsatisfied with the more complex ones.

I started this one with my business's logo design and text in Photoshop and experimented with different beginning camera and light angles. I finally settled on a lower left hand corner zoomed in view for the camera, moving toward the center and pulling out. The light was placed in the upper portion of the logo facing away, then animated to light the bottom up to the top and pulling outward at the same time while getting brighter. I made the text layer 3D by moving the Z axis away from the logo plane. As the camera pulls outwards the text is also resizing and moving back to fit within the white space.

Once that was finished to my liking I had some inspiration to create a little video to include my logo/text introduction. I edited some of my extreme sports footage I have shot over the years to Goose's Whipass Remix. I'm quite happy with the final product!



***Its widescreen so looks better if viewed on YouTube, not the blog***

Project # 5 progress

I've always been interested in intro sequences to videos and films. With learning more about 3D in After Effects I thought I would attempt to make my own intro using the 3D planes.

So far it is going ok, having some trouble getting things to go the right way, but overall its pretty fun and I think it will come out to my liking for a first try.

My inspiration comes from videos such as the MVP TX2K9 video intro: