Top Ten... Creating The Ident, Well One Of Them

My first ident is based on the Hollywood walk of fame, with the camera panning backwards along the path, before focussing in one one star before the title appears.

As I am an easily confused person, I have colour coded my layers in a way that makes sense to me, pink for objects on the left, brown for objects on the right, and red for the fixed components.



To create this, I prepared my assets in Photoshop, which was the path, using textures from photographs of the Hollywood Stars, and a simple black to blue gradient for the background. These were imported into After Effects, and to get the perspective of the path I altered the X Rotation, once I had enabled 3D. I created the paparazzi flashes using a Photoshop brush, which was imported to AE and the opacity adjusted across 3 frames, to get the quick flash. It was important to use a brush with feather to get that soft edge.
I used Tahoma for the Title, to keep it similar to the style of the star as the Honey Script I have chosen didn't suit. To keep with the style I wanted to use a golden colour for the text, but it clashed too much with the star, so I have gone for black so it stands out.
I have used the MTV logo, like the camera icon seen on the stars, I have even coloured the logo the same as the outline of the star to keep it similar.