Energy Wipe

This turned out to be my biggest project. Because when I began the tutorial, the creator of the tutorial pulled files from a different tutorial of his in order to create the energy going across the screen. That ended, well, not as good as I was hoping for.
But, I did learn how to use the effect, and I am fairly confident I could replicate it much more effectively now.

Spin Thing

So for this weeks animation I created a Spin Thing from a video copilot tutorial. This was incredibly frustrating because I could not get the layers to line up correctly in the 3d format. For some reason they would't layer correctly with the text.

But, all in all I am sort of happy with this week's title. Not nearly as happy as last week's though....

Ancient Titles

So, this one wasn't on my original plan. But, I don't have the software to make the one i was supposed to this week, so this is what I got. 

I followed the tutorial on Vidoe Copilot in order to create the project main points of the title. But, when the tutorial ended i felt the need to make it tailored to my school. So, I got a blue metal texture and overlaid my entire project with it. Then I went to the text and precomped it, so I could overland a different blue metal texture, and it just happened to have a stripe through the middle, which I thought was a nice touch. Once that was done I felt that the text blended into the background so I added a glow layer style to the precomped text layer and added the white border around the edges. 

And that is what I ended up with.

The Ring

This is my ring animation. What it is, is I created a ring from a tutorial on video copilot. I created the ring and added a ton of effects to the ring, including fractal noise, and blurs, to make the ring appear to move and squirm around on the inside.

Once I had the ring created I added 5 trap code particular effect going around in a circle, to create a simulated effect going around the ring. Once I had that entire thing done, I didn't think that that was enough. So, I added 2 more trap code particular effects in the background, to create a dust floating in the background effect.

Once I had all that done, I added in the text. However I didn't feel like that, was enough to have just the text in there, so I added a bevel and emboss effect to give it a more 3d look.

Crumble Animation

This is my final crumble animation.

           I created this crumbling effect using after effects. I first created a photoshop document containing the graphic I wanted to crumble out. Then I precomped the final so that it made it very easy to change what I want to crumble out. Then I created the shatter effect. Then I duplicated the shatter effect and changed the shatter amount and shrunk the pieces to create a micro-shatter and make the animation more believable. Then I added a feather mask to the entire project to give it a more realistic detail. All in all I am very happy with how it turned out. 

This is the version I am using for our ONW NOW opening animation.