6th

              Dethroned-Architects

Song lyrics:

Another cold dark night, left alone
Your arrogance will lead to the death of you
I'll be the one to pull your head back down
Remove your hollow Crown
So far from the truth you hide away
I'll be the one to pull your head back down
Remove your hollow crown
I'll die happy knowing that I will never be anything like you
What gives you the right to silence me?
All my life I've wanted just to fell like this
You came, you conquered you gave it away
And how does it feel staring down on your idol's grave
The one you once looked up to has fallen into dust
The one you once looked up to has fallen away
What's left for you in this fickle world?
Remove your crown

This song was entirely made from experimentation using just cc particle word effects that were already in After Effects.
The concept of the animation is a word based on three levels, each one having a different color and being more complex that the former one, the obstacles are also different from each level.
After the player ''the ball'' manages to pass thru the first two word will enter in the final stage where it will have to destroy its idol (a red  silhouette) by breaking thru his head and in this was removing his crown.The final scene reveals the ball transforming itself into a red silhouette and becoming an idol for someone else, meanwhile a black ball will fly toward his head. The word is conceived to be an endless repetitive cycle that starts and ends in the same point, one with the idol death another one will appear so another player will have to destroy and replace him.

From time to time, there will be two ''players'' in the same time, however one of them will disappear, this was  a hint to the ending, there was someone else that went thru the same things

I found very interesting the verse: ''I'll die happy knowing that I will never be anything like you'' and I used that in an ironic way, the player is not realizing that in reality he becomes exactly like his old hero only with an another face.


Making of: I played mainly only with CC Particle Word Effect and CC Particle System.
Each obstacle was individually made with particle generators and each one has an incorporated camera that can be activated in the ''extras'' .This camera has distance, position and rotation function that will rotate the entire object and only that object. Moreover there are effects that you can apply such as fog, and fade for depth

Another important element is Physics,here you can change the animation type,in other word how the particle will behave such as fire, vortex and twirly in this case,beside that the way in which the word/floor is placed will change the end result dramatically.

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