I was intrigued by the new Spiderman movie, even though I haven't seen it, I am an admirer of the pre-movie Spiderman. I had the pleasure to even work on a Spiderman: The Movie computer game while at Activision.
I downloaded the font the_amazing_spider_man from Dafont.com. The uppercase letters are solid and the lowercase letters have a white fill with a black border. I took the font, aligned it to the right, and added a Warp Envelope Arc with various settings. Then I re-sized it as best I could.
I added a spider from the Nature Symbols palette, re-sized it, rotated it, and then positioned it to the left of the text. I wanted it big, and since it was a nice vector graphic, it would look good no matter what size.
Next I wanted a web, I looked for one in the symbols pallets but I could not find one so I decided to make one myself. I just drew one vertical and one horizontal line, then I grouped and copy and pasted it on top, then rotated it and re-positioned it on the center of the other line. I then drew three circles of increasing sizes.
I then selected and grouped the circles, added a Pucker Effect to it which gave it the curved web look. then I added a Brush Stroke to the web so that it would look more natural.
I had the web and text on separate layers with the text turned off while I worked on the web. Now that the web was done, I turned the text back on. I placed the text layer on the top and realized that the text on top would get lost in the graphics below. So a typical thing I do is to add a white border behind the text to separate it from the graphics below.
When I started out, I mean to do a tutorial, but this ended up being a 30 minute piece. I took the 30 minutes and edited down to about 1 minute and 30 seconds. The edit job was very rough. I am still trying to figure out a good format.
I will redo the video when I have the time. I have a much better understanding how things work now. I will also be adding in sound and voice over with subtitles.
