[Scene 00] Alternative Opening v3

Scene 00 Alternative Opening v3

And here's the version produced today. With a lot of help and lighting advice from Andy we managed to come up with very nice visual depth. I also played around with the ripples a bit more, once again Andy stepped in and suggested a Mesh Warp effect for the ripple which worked really nicely. All I need now are the puppets then I can continue with it :]

This kind of lighting effects will be something I'm going to apply to all of my sequences. It really does make a difference and I'm encouraging everyone to do the same. We don't want the backgrounds to be too much like the original photoshop file, so add some lighting guys!

[Scene 00] Alternative Opening v2

Here's version numero dos. I took on board Alex's suggestions from the previous version and shortened the beginning by one second, made drop of the water quicker, easy eased the pan and altered the ripples. The radio waves I used for the effect was limited to when the sizes can change but hopefully this looks slightly better. Give it that subtle change that's noticeable :]

[Scene 00] Alternative Opening v1

I was thinking over how we can make an effective opening. Something with a little bit of difference from the camera movement we've done before. Because Andy had mentioned something about water drops falling at the corner of the barn's wall I was taken back to how 'A Bug's Life' was opened. So I researched a little bit on water ripple effects in AE and I came up with this for starters.

Here's the link to the opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrW_TTxP1ow

I like the bird flying by but I think the first bird we need to be introduced to is the crow so I didn't try with that :] There was another suggestion that Andy said and that was to pan across the barn wall and see a very dusty window before we come to the corner. And through the window's dust we barely see the Interior shot, hinting off future events. Now of course that's another idea I'd really like to use ^^

At the end is when the scarecrow will sneak around the wall before the crow joins him etc. :] I think I might need to change that reflection. I'm not sure whether it looks odd or not. I need another opinion.