Particle Dance Animation

After searching on the internet I really liked the idea of using the particle dance animation so I searched the internet to find tutorials on how to make one and I followed a tutorial by a Youtube called VideoFort to help me create this animation. To add my own personal touch I tweaked some of the instructions given in the tutorial to add more movement to the animation, add more particles around the animation and I chose my own colour scheme. I based the colour scheme around my subject of online presence and thought about the colours you would often see. I used blues because blue is a common colour used in social media as it is a colour that keeps the brain engaged and makes the user somewhat obsessed with the site and yellow and green as they are colours associated with the popular games: The Sims and online social games Habbo and World of Warcraft. When it came to the background I tried both black and white to see which I preferred. I decided to keep it black so the animation would stand out but I didn't like how it looked so flat so I used a gradient from a dark grey to a darker grey to give the animation more depth. Finally I added a glow to the animation to help it shine and stand out further. An issue I had making and exporting my animation was that the file was so large that it cause me a lot of problems when I wanted to watch a preview of what I had done, I could watch the animation itself but not when the extra particles and glow were added which was an annoyance when editing, I had to judge by what I could seen while the preview was still. Also after exporting there was a large X covering the animation, I learned that this was because I had to download a plugin for After Effects to create what I wanted and was using a free trial of the software. Because it was free, I assume the company did not want me to use the software properly. I tried to key out the colour but had difficulty so I tried playing around with the colour of the cross and decided to keep it but now make it a really light grey.

 
This was my final animation that I created and uploaded to Vimeo.