Creating an animated logo can be a daunting task however does add a fair bit to your brand, especially when it comes to your company’s website and video content. With this in mind, whilst I was working with some 3D elements in AE today I had an idea to create a 3D animated logo. See the finished product below:
To put this together I used 2 files (the company logo and a .png floor texture) along with some default vector elements, AE default effects, and a 20mm camera (see below*). The whole project took roughly about an hour and a half of placing elements in the 3D space and refining the glow effect on the coloured section of the logo. Finally a bit of keyframed camera work and an expression for camera shake using wiggle(6,1) I ended up with the result:
*.PNG files used for the project:
