Imantu Logo

[CraigS]

How did you make this? It rocks!

http://www.darkscarab.com/animations/vi ... ntu%20Logo

I'd like to do it where the particles come in to make the image. That would rock

[Irascibleone]

For that animation, there are two emitters. One for the particles that are 'randomly' floating around and another, which is the logo itself. The particles that are floating around are slowly emitted from a plane before the animation even started and I bumped up the brownian motion a bit to give them their random floating movement, that way, by the time the animation actually started the particles are already out there and moving around.

The emission of the particles on the logo itself were controlled by a cloud texture. I used keys to set when the texture would change to make the logo slowly change from all black to all white (or the other way around) and changed the settings of the texture in the material so that the texture effected alpha, then the logo would look like it disappeared.

The particles were supposed to look like they were dissolving off of the logo, but I did it incorrectly. The particles were just specially timed to look kinda like it. I could fix that now if I wanted to, I think.

I can go into more detail if you want, but it's midnight right now and I'm tired...

[CraigS]

Ok, I see. I don't get how you did the cloud thingy, or anything. could I see the blend, for particle setup and stuff?

[Irascibleone]

I wasn't saying it right before, I guess I wasn't thinking at the time. The cloud texture is just used to make the logo disappear using alpha settings to make it see through. The particles start emitting from the logo right when the logo begins to disappear.
For the particles, there is no normal setting, the reason the particles move towards the camera is that I used an empty with a Vortex field added to it.

Here's the file, most of the materials and coloring is gone though, I guess I didn't save after I colored everything or something. That kinda bites. Oh well, that's not what you are looking at anyways.

[CraigS]

Thanks a lot I'll be sure to check out the files.