From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Animated Logos
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Creating a glass logo bug
From the course: Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Animated Logos
Creating a glass logo bug
- Another type of treatment that's quite popular and one that I need often, is a translucent logo bug. A lot of times, you'll see these in the corners on network television shows, but they're often used to watermark footage. By using a series of bevels and gentle fills, you can actually create a bug that's mostly see-through, but helps brand your footage or create a protective watermark. Here's how. To start out, I'm going to open up a logo into Photoshop. Now this is an Illustrator file, and it comes in with plenty of resolution. But what's important here is that we decide which areas are going to be in the bug and which areas are going to be transparent, or if necessary, if there's going to be variable levels here. So to make this a bit easier, I'm going to split this logo apart. Now you could do this inside of Photoshop using tools like the Magic Wand to select areas. That works well, or you could actually be a little more precise. For this, I'm going to take that Illustrator file…
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