Discovery Channel 12) Making Changes Part 1

After coming to terms with my ident in fact needing quite a bit of work, I decided to get to making adjustments according the the factors that I went over with my teacher. I thought it would be best to do this sequence by sequence, i.e a setting at a time. This was purely because i have three separate projects for the each individual locations. I am glad I did this because it made the process of editing much less complex that I could have made it.

First up, I decided to edit the safari desert setting. I thought I would start off with LIGHTING. Though I had tried to make an emphasis with the drop shadows and inner shadows, my teacher felt like it needed a bit more, and so I went ahead and added a separate 'light' layer, which I could edit then in more detail. As soon as I added the layer, half of the screen went BLACK, so I though I would see what I could change with the settings and went for the 'Point' option, which makes the animation look extremely more in depth, but without being too contrasting. I did go in and change several other options within the sub-setting however there were so many that there is not one which I thought individually stood out. 

I then decided to see what I else I could do VISUALLY to make my animation look that bit more 'slick'. I then went ahead and added a glow to the moon, to make it actually look like a real moon. My main focus of my Discovery Channel Ident was to capture the attention of the viewer, and now looking it at it, the moon definitely stands out a lot more than it did previously.

Without light adjustments.

With light adjustments.

I think this by changing a lot of the lighting aspects of the animation, does make it that bit more enticing as opposed to now when I look at the previous one, looking a bit 'flat'.

Now was to edit a few more subjective bits, however I thought that they were necessary. I went ahead and changed the butterfly on the left, so that it flies in front of the moon, as opposed to before when it was behind it. I also made the giraffe move a little but more in time with the second ground layer, just so that it isn't move in such a straight line!