So in doing the Totally Rad show for over a year and a half, we have had the need for lower 3rd’s to communicate information. I started off with an ultra simple lower 3rd. Then after a while I got bored with that and wanted to build something original for the show. So I made something that involved and explosion and fire like effects.  That was fine for a while, but I wanted to try something more complex with the After Effects skills I was gaining. So recently I built an all new one from scratch.

The effect I wanted to achieve was that of a fireball that tore open a section of the screen and left it burning for a while, then sealed up. This is what I came up with. I worked hard at getting the logo to have a heat wave effect (video may be too small to tell), and the edges to look like they are still burning a little bit. Like the slow burn of a piece of paper.