logo for animated introduction

our CD rom will feature an animated introduction that will appear at the beginning of the application, the introduction will be 2D and 3D. There will be a spray can character that will hop along the screen and spray our logo onto a brick background.
i was set the job role of designing the logo that the spray can will spray onto the wall, i designed an idea then drew out an outline drawing of the logo onto paper with pencils and a fine liner, i came up with two designs for the logo, one of which will be used in the animation. the image above is my first design.

this first design is very neat and graphic, we agreed that my second design would fit the introduction better because it looks more like a piece of graffiti that you would find on the streets. The image to the left is my second design





Once i knew which design we were going to use i went onto Photoshop to add colour to the piece. i imported the line drawaing into Photopshop and put the different sections into layers and named the layers to save confusion later on.


After i broke everything into layers i started to add colour using the select tool and the paint bucket tool.


I also wanted to add certain filters to the piece to give a textured appearance look, the first filter i decided to add was 'Crystallize' this would give the surface a variety of colours, once i added that i added 'ocean ripple' this gives the block colours a textured look.


for the city scape in the background i just used a simple gradient tool with two colours that were light and dark, this gives the effect that there is light below like a real city.


To finish off i added a lens flair above the city scape to give the effect of a sun or moon in the sky and added a omni light from the lighting effects filter to cast a slight shadow on the piece, this is the final piece