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Hide & Seek (Lyric Video)

Hide & Seek – Official Lyric Video
Adobe After Effects

For the release of their song Hide & Seek, Christian Artist His Witness were looking for a lyric video with a playful interpretation of the lyrics. They wanted something clean and modern with an urban feel.

The video was created in After Effects using a custom text animations and masks. The background was created from a high resolution still image with a 4-Color Gradient and Curves Adjustment to toggle between lightness and darkness. The zoom-out motion at the end of the video is simply a slow change in scale and position using key frames. The Bokeh effect is a video overlay with an alpha channel which has been looped to the length of the audio.

3D Animation of 2D Layers

For this project, the client’s in-house graphic designer created the layout for their International Women’s Day Conference Slides. The layout was created in Adobe Illustrator. The vector files were imported into Adobe After Effects and were given 3D animation and lighting to create a more dynamic introduction to their conference presentation.

3D Animation of 2D Layers
Adobe Illustrator and After Effects

For the end of the presentation, the client requested that basically the same animation be used but in reverse.

3D Text over Video

3D Text over Video
Adobe After Effects & Maxon Cinema 4D
Video Credit: Lucid Visual Arts

For this project, an outside production company requested 3D text to appear as if it were floating in space over tracking video shots. The effect was accomplished using motion tracking in Adobe After Effects and the 3D Text was created in Maxon Cinema 4D.

3D Text over Video with Animated Mask
Adobe After Effects & Maxon Cinema 4D
Video Credit: Lucid Visual Arts

For shots where the 3D text was to float behind objects like the steel support beam in the video above, the beam was manually isolated in After Effects by creating an animated mask. The 3D text layer was then sandwiched in between the isolation beam layer and the original video file.

Project Tag: Adobe After Effects

Hide & Seek (Lyric Video)

3D Animation of 2D Layers

3D Text over Video