For my title sequence i'm animating a squid to move, with a dark background having it being slowly revealed by a spotlight. This relates to my film influence as the alien creature has similar body parts that look the same as a squids, only bigger.
To the right is the image i have used only i have cropped away the body and kept the legs/gilesas that is the part i am going to animate.In photoshop i cut the picture to create layers as for the bits i want to animate, as you can see i removed the background and added a black one and used to magic wand tool to get rid of the gaps in between each leg.i have then burnt the edges to create a show for a more 3D effect.
I then imported the photoshop file to After effects so that i could begin editing it using numerous effects such as liquidify and turbulance displacement to create the kind of waviness of the legs itsself.
I also used masks to add blur and more dark areas to the image.
After adding a tritone and noise to it, all that was left is to control the spotlight and make it slowly reveal the moving parts. i added key frames and directed it diagonal, i added these effects in individual adjustment layers.
Here is the finished footage.