UFO; Sci Fi channel Ident

During the first visual effects session today we were taught a variety of basic skills using Adobe After Effects. This was incredibly interesting as there are many similarities to Photoshop and Flash. This meant it was easily picked up so that by the afternoon sufficient knowledge had been taught allowing us to create basic moving image like this. I decided to create a mock up of the sort of Ident that could be designed for the Sci Fi channel; UFO Ident. This is simply an image of a city sky line with the sky cut out. It has been replaced by a short film of moving clouds, which has then been distorted to make the perspective of the sky match the city. I then got an image of a UFO and gave it a path in the time line adjusting the scale and movement. Finally finding a not too pixelated image of the SCI FI channel logo I edited in Photoshop and faded it in the out again at the end. This was easily and would be much better when using my own content, rather than low quality Internet source images.