In the End...it doesn’t even matter?

When displaying the intro piece to the rest of the group it was suggested that a quote at the end would be appropriate. This would make a nice symmetry between the opening and the ending. Through perusal of quotes seen within the film “Tora! Tora! Tora!” an attention-grabbing quote proved to be one from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve”

The scene was created in approximately the reverse of the opening particle effect for turning the text to ash. The ash then blows into the scene which is reflective of how it blew out of the intro, it goes on to form the sentence of the quote. The key elements to this particle effect were to have it ‘find target’ (its target being the text shape) and then having the particles stop their movement and spin in order to sit inside the shape forming each letter through particles alone. 

In order to display the group SID’s I also delved into differing ideas for displaying them, it could have merely been a piece of text up on the screen but owing to the work put in the flag on the command building, and it having not really been displayed anywhere throughout the animation, it seemed appropriately American to have it wave at the end with our SID’s over the top. The flag was simply motioned via a ripple effect that was auto-keyed to shift its phase over an amount of frames. I kept it so that the first and last frames were identical in order to allow the footage to be looped indefinitely when editing in Premiere. 

The final step was the text and this was done solely in Premiere. It was a simple overlay opacity which sits above the flag ripple. The font was chosen due to its quite bulky military-esque nature. 

The overlay within Premiere the faded text gives a nice gentle display of our SID numbers.