In After Effects, I wanted to create a scene that was on a cellular scale, as if the camera was an electron microscope inside the blood stream. I started by pulling it backwards in Z-space, so that it slowly showed one of the virus's tentacles.
The camera comes to rest showing most of the 1st virus. It's tentacles move and it's core pulsates. When the camera comes to rest, a digital HUD pops out, displaying the text for the first super
Here's a screenshot from inside the digital read-out pre-comp
Another screenshot from inside the Target pre-comp
In Cinema4D, I used the proximal effect and a Boolean NURBS to expose segments of each letter in VIRUS
I also modelled a complete 2nd virus in Cinema4D. This one also has a pulsating core and moving legs.
Also in Cinema4D, I used the Proximal effect to pass an 'infection' effect through some of the letters. The renders took hours just for 3-second clips, but they were well worth it.
