Ideas to Creations (http://ideastocreations.blogspot.com) is a blog where I write After Effects and Cinema 4D articles and tutorials, and I'm now working toward video tutorials.
I worked on the packaging for each type of video: 1. Quick tips and 2. Full-length tutorials.
I wanted to keep things minimal yet stylish, and landed on this cool style that I really like.
These videos will go up on the i2c channel (http://youtube.com/i2cblog).
Feedback appreciated.
The black at the end is alphad, allowing the tutorial to show through as the introduction is done.
Quick tips get a darker look.
The end clip below wipes onto the video with transparency, in time with the "see you in the next one" outro. The "Click to Subscribe" will have a Youtube annotation over it linking to the "Subscribe" page.
Depending on what the tutorial is based on, the PURPLE bar above and below will change. Purple for AE, light-blue for Photoshop, darker-blue for Cinema4D and so on. Not only does it help the viewer know quickly what software it's for, it also provides for a nice accent to the look of the frame.
Still Frames
"Quick Tip" videos, with the darker look, are less than three-minute long, whereas the other lighter style is for full tutorials which are 10-15 minutes long.
The sound track is "There's Something Wrong (The Dirty Water Remix)" by "djlang56
See it in use on this "Jump Out of Frame" Photoshop tutorial.
