Animated Logo Solution

Overview

Summer of 2019 I was offered a Social Media/Marketing Internship with the Contra Costa Community College District. It was an exciting opportunity to get practical experience and expand my marketing knowledge.

As the internship was only a few months, I wanted to make sure my work would be useful to the department in the long run. I decided to create a simple animated version of the organization logo to use in video content.

Contra Costa Community College District logo
Static Logo

Process

diagram showing CCCCD logo and color information
Color and Font Analysis

The first challenge was to recreate the logo in its component parts. The organization kept records of most of the color and font information, but the script/serif font was missing. I substituted a font that was comprable.

The Pantone colors of course had to be converted to RGB for this project.

Another problem was making aspect ratios of the logo for different applications, including mobile and social media. Cropping the composition in AfterEffects was simple enough, but the timing of each element’s movment had to be adjusted because the edge of the format was in a different place.

Final Deliverables

Animated logo (Widescreen)
Instagram Story Aspect Ratio

Results

diagram showing CCCCD logo and color information
Internship participants and supervisors
  • Value
    • Video branding assets for long-term use
    • Enhance branding of organization
    • Well-documented project files if future edits are needed
  • Software
    • Adobe After Effects
    • Adobe Illustrator
    • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Skills
    • Motion Design
    • Color Theory
    • Typography
    • Video Processing
  • Total hours
    • About 10