Discovery Channel Brand ID Tutorial
This one started out as a continuation of my Strange Planet series which you can find here: Planet Earth, The Power of the Sun, Strange Planets revisited, Solar System. I got the idea of doing the clouds from watching Discovery Channel. The more I noodled with the project, the more it looked like Discovery Channel, so I just gave in and recreated something similar to what their current look.
This tutorial definitely is a bit more advanced but beginners do not be afraid - it's still easy! That's an oxymoron I know, but it is still true.
However, I have made some assumptions in how I wrote this tutorial. With this one, I was less likely to get into all of the fine details on exactly how to do everything. I am assuming that you're reasonably sure of figuring out certain basic things within After Effects. This keeps the length of the tutorial to a moderate length (3 pages with graphics.)
This tutorial teaches you a bit about some Channel Effects, Null Objects and nesting compositions and how they can help you. I like this tutorial because it takes a lot of different elements and puts them all together to create something compelling.
Discovery Channel Brand ID TutorialOne last thing - if anyone can tell me how to make YouTube look less like SoCrude, I would greatly appreciate it! These animations look much better than what YouTube is showing!