Building Your Project - The Focal Easy Guide to After Effects - page 105

Duplicate layer 5 and, in the Comp Window, drag it behind the purple glass of
the '01' text. Zoom into the Comp Window to center the new Glimmer layer to
its final position under '01' - don't worry if it overlaps the other Glimmer layer.

Select both Glimmer Precomp layers, then change their modes to Overlay and
reduce their Opacity (T) to 50%.

Finishing the Logo Design

To make the logo more eye-catching, we'll add some glimmers over the main
text. We'll be using the Reflections Precomp as the highlight layers with a Track
Matte taken from the Logo text layer.

1

Select both Glimmer Precomps and duplicate them.

2

Drag both duplicates above layer 4 ( WONK Logo.png ).

3

Open both duplicates' Masks (M), select both Mask 1 shapes, then press
Delete.

4

Set their Blending Mode to Overlay and their Opacity (T) to 66%.

5

Center each duplicate over its logo text.

6

Resize both layers to completely cover the text layers, scaled to about
100% by 66% - let them overlap.

7

Rename the Glimmer layer located over the WONK TV text to WONK
Glimmer .

8

Rename the lower Glimmer layer (located over the CH 01 text) to
CH Glimmer .

To mask the logo text glimmers, we need to duplicate the logo layer to act as
the Track Matte's source.

9

Select WONK Logo.png , then duplicate it twice.

10

Rename one WONK Logo duplicate to WONK text matte , then rename
the other duplicate to CH text matte .

11

Select WONK text matte , then in the Comp Window create a Box Mask
around the WONK TV elements.

12

Select CH text matte and make a Box Mask around the CH 01 elements.