The changes i made from last time are:
- Added blue lens flare to the first scene and modified the lens flare in the second scene to be blue
- Added a glitch effect to the first scene
- Changed the font for 'IT'S COMING' to the font of the title
- Added more glitch effects to the title as well as a background
- Added the release date, developer and publisher after the title
To add lens flare I added a solid layer in After Effects then added the lens flare effect with a colour balance effect and turned the blue shadows and midtones up to 100. I then added a Change to Colour effect to change the brown/orange colours to blue. I then added camera lens blur and set the radius to 2 to soften the lens flare so it looked more realistic.
I tried using the tracker to track part of the clip. This didn't work because there was no point on the screen that stayed looking the same the whole way through so the tracking points kept coming out of place. So i ended up having to manually move the lens flare for each frame.
After adding the motion to the lens flare i then added a motion blur effect by adding directional blur to the layer. I then went through and set keyframes at the start and end of each large movement then set the blur amount according to the speed of the motion.
I then added a glitch effect when explosions happened and the camera shook. To do this i added fractal noise to a new solid layer then set the blend mode to screen. I set the fractal type to turbulent smooth and the noise type to block. Then created 2 keyframes, one at the start and one at the end. I then set the keyframe at the start to 0x and the one at the end to 25x. This made the fractal evolve over time and made the scene look glitchy. I then added a gaussian blur to make the glitch later in the scene look smoother, since the camera shake wasn't as harsh i made the glitchyness less harsh. I adjusted the length of this layer to as long as in needed to be then added keyframes for the opacity to make the glitch appear when it is need as well as keyframes to the gaussian blur strength ramping to 100 after the initial explosion and then set it to 30 for the following explosions.
For the second scene i increased the brightness slightly and then copied the colour changing effects over from the previous lens flare to make it blue.
For the glitchy title I generated multiple title layers in photoshop at different distorted states by getting the original title then applying a wind effect from the filters, then mezzotint set to long lines then finally adding a wave effect. I then repeated this many times to get a lot of titles in different states by playing with the settings of the wave effect. I then imported the photoshop file into after effects then took the layers i wanted and put them onto the timeline, each for a few frames to make the animation. I then went over and added some horizontal Gaussian Blur each layer and set the blur to 10, this made them look smoother.
I then made another layer in photoshop of the release date, publisher and developer using the text tool. I then looked at the valve logo and replicated it using the text tool and rectangular marquee tool. After making this i then repeated the process for the title again to get the distorted/glitchy look i wanted.
After this i then added a solid layer and then added a fractal noise effect then set the noise type to linear and the fractal type to turbulent basic i also set the contrast to 120 i also then added a keyframe at the start and end of the title then set the evolution at the end of the title to 5 so it would evolve over time. I then reduced the opacity of this effect to 30%, then added a colour balance effect to make it blue. I set the red midtones and hilights to -100 as well as the green midtones to -60 and the green hilights to -50. I then added this clip between the title and the fractal and set the blend mode to screen.
I then got the following clip of dust from youtube.
Then set the clip blending mode to screen and added Gaussian blur set to 2.0 as well as a colour balance with the midtone red balance set to -100, midtone green balance set to -46 and the hilight red balance set to -7.
Then i added 2 solid layers of particle playground effects and played with the properties until the particles looked like slow moving slow or dust. I added Gaussian blur to both layers and set one of them 28.2 and the other to 100. This made the particles look like they were at different distances from the camera.
After all the effects had been added i exported what i had to an MP4 format then imported it into adobe premier on its own sequence. I then copied the 'It's coming' title from the old sequence, put it over the top of the one in the imported footage, cut out the old title with the razor tool, then edited the title i got from the old sequence so it had the same font as everything else and exported it.
I then added a glitch effect when explosions happened and the camera shook. To do this i added fractal noise to a new solid layer then set the blend mode to screen. I set the fractal type to turbulent smooth and the noise type to block. Then created 2 keyframes, one at the start and one at the end. I then set the keyframe at the start to 0x and the one at the end to 25x. This made the fractal evolve over time and made the scene look glitchy. I then added a gaussian blur to make the glitch later in the scene look smoother, since the camera shake wasn't as harsh i made the glitchyness less harsh. I adjusted the length of this layer to as long as in needed to be then added keyframes for the opacity to make the glitch appear when it is need as well as keyframes to the gaussian blur strength ramping to 100 after the initial explosion and then set it to 30 for the following explosions.
For the second scene i increased the brightness slightly and then copied the colour changing effects over from the previous lens flare to make it blue.
For the glitchy title I generated multiple title layers in photoshop at different distorted states by getting the original title then applying a wind effect from the filters, then mezzotint set to long lines then finally adding a wave effect. I then repeated this many times to get a lot of titles in different states by playing with the settings of the wave effect. I then imported the photoshop file into after effects then took the layers i wanted and put them onto the timeline, each for a few frames to make the animation. I then went over and added some horizontal Gaussian Blur each layer and set the blur to 10, this made them look smoother.
I then made another layer in photoshop of the release date, publisher and developer using the text tool. I then looked at the valve logo and replicated it using the text tool and rectangular marquee tool. After making this i then repeated the process for the title again to get the distorted/glitchy look i wanted.
After this i then added a solid layer and then added a fractal noise effect then set the noise type to linear and the fractal type to turbulent basic i also set the contrast to 120 i also then added a keyframe at the start and end of the title then set the evolution at the end of the title to 5 so it would evolve over time. I then reduced the opacity of this effect to 30%, then added a colour balance effect to make it blue. I set the red midtones and hilights to -100 as well as the green midtones to -60 and the green hilights to -50. I then added this clip between the title and the fractal and set the blend mode to screen.
I then got the following clip of dust from youtube.
Then set the clip blending mode to screen and added Gaussian blur set to 2.0 as well as a colour balance with the midtone red balance set to -100, midtone green balance set to -46 and the hilight red balance set to -7.
Then i added 2 solid layers of particle playground effects and played with the properties until the particles looked like slow moving slow or dust. I added Gaussian blur to both layers and set one of them 28.2 and the other to 100. This made the particles look like they were at different distances from the camera.
After all the effects had been added i exported what i had to an MP4 format then imported it into adobe premier on its own sequence. I then copied the 'It's coming' title from the old sequence, put it over the top of the one in the imported footage, cut out the old title with the razor tool, then edited the title i got from the old sequence so it had the same font as everything else and exported it.
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