This is my Final Ident
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Second Ident i Exported
This is my second ident I uploaded, I realised I didn’t
make my music fade out in the end and it sounded a little weird by ending
bluntly. So I went back into after effects again to make the music fade out in
the end.
First Export of Final Ident
this was my first ident i exported, unfortunately
the music didn't properly start til quite late into the ident so i had to go
back to after effects and edit the music to come in earlier.
trouble with making the bdc logo move on the 'wall of china' photo
For the last few hours in making the ident i had to
stop the 'great wall of china' photo being a 3d layer because the bdc logo on
it wouldn’t move in a diagonal motion across it. Instead as the layer was 3d
it was moving with the camera movement I had placed on it earlier and the bdc logo was
just moving across the picture from left to right. I researched on the Internet
how to make the logo go in a diagonal motion and it came up with making paths
and making the logo run along it.
I did make the
path but for some reason the logo wouldn’t run along it, I did this time and
time again making the logo 2d or 3d layer, doing the path then placing the logo on top of it or putting the logo on and drawing the path on it. Nothing worked. Instead I decided
to covert the ‘wall of china’ photo into a 2d layer and it stopped moving with
the camera movement it had. So I made the bdc logo a 3d layer and I managed to
make it move along the ‘wall of china’ photo using key frames.
Wednesday 25 April 2012
Disappearing layer in aftereffects
Half way through making the logos creative I
noticed that on some of the photos the logo started to disappear. I looked on
the Internet ‘disappearing layer in after effects’ and some answers were
because the logo is a png file although my other png logos are working. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/783940
After doing more research on the Internet I didn’t
find any results. I decided to take the png file and opened it into Photoshop
to convert it into a jpeg and Photoshop file. My teacher did do some research
also and it said that the png files wont disappear if they have alpha channels
switch on with is done while saving the png photo in Photoshop but
unfortunately I couldn’t do this nor could I do this on any other file type. Instead
I put the new photoshop file logo into my ident, when switching it to 3d on the
photos it disappeared so I’ve kept it 2d and have started to make the logos
move.
making logos more creative
since i managed to make camera movements on my photos, my teacher had the idea to make the logos move on the photos. to do this you clicked on the logo's layer, open a button call transform and you can choose to make the logo go left or right, u or down, diagonal, flipped upside down or backwards. again when you choose what you'd like your logo to do it creates check points so as the logo plays through it hits check points which tells it what to do.
camera movements
I read this online tutorial about camera
movements across the photos to make my ident more interesting and eye catching.
I had to convert my layers and logos into 3d layers and put a new layer in
which was the camera movement. When you opened the camera layer it brought you
to a button called ‘transform’ which lets you choose what camera movement you’d
like on the photo. I did this on all of the photos I have, when you do the
camera movement it opens ‘check points’ so as the camera movement moves on in
the photo it hits check points which tells it what to do next.
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