PIXEL POLLY

 

Some weeks previously Louis and I discovered an effect for a shattering title. The effect explodes the words 'BOOM' which are in a large metalic, 3D looking font made completely within AE. The words just sit there innocently, until a bright blue light ignites and shatters the title into hundreds of shards of flying metal in a violent explosion.

This was an effect I re-created with the words 'boom', after having watched a Video Copilot tutorial making use of the pixel polly effect. The next lesson I showed the effect to my partner Louis who immidiately re-created the effect on his laptop, instead combusting the words "Gaia's Army" with a flying ball of light. 

While I doubt this effect will be used for the actual title of the film, it is a good inspiration for a production company ident. We already have the Venturay ident; but we may also need to invent a European production company aswell. This effect could give that possible ident an extra edge, but rather than to violently explode, perhaps use the techinque to transition in a title, slowly, delicately.