Logo Animation Suggestion

When I saw the Zero-K logo, I had an idea of how it could be animated for things like trailers, opening the game, etc. Basically, start with a total eclipse, then have the planet move to the left a little, until it is where it should be in the logo. Zoom out and bring in the other letters in the logo.

I made a concept of what this would look like. Granted, I have basically no animation experience, but I managed to throw this together to demonstrate the idea.

http://i.imgur.com/iOGhiF9.gifv

Mind if I use the final animated logo for my casts? Depends on whether I think the result will work, but I'm thinking as something that would pop up when transitioning to the game itself. Watch the last NOTA tournament to get an idea of what I mean, though hopefully OBS multiplatform will allow for properly customizable scene transitions.

I felt like transforming the moon into a rock.. Hope you're ok with that.


Additionally I'm not yet sure whether It'd look nice with stars in the background or without.

Shadowfury333 It be free for anyone to do whatever they want with it.

Update: Finally rendered a preview(without stars). I thought just zooming out would be a bit boring so I decided to move the camera itself instead. Please comment if you want me to do the original idea as well. Also I replaced the shader of the sun and the font which seems to have made it a bit too flickery. I'll fix that in the next render.

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Update2:
Added a few units and changed lighting to improve their visibility. I have taken the background image myself, thus there shouldn't be any problems with copyrights.

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I'd be happy about suggestions regarding lighting or units.

Update3:
Following the suggestions of hokomoko I added a fade-out of the singu. I'm thinking about letting the detri disappear in similar matter, or do you think that'd look unrealistic? I tried to improve the timing of the background but will probably put the fade-out even a bit earlier. Also a fade-in has been added.
@[TL]Beamer I agree with you if someone would only see this, but this isn't supposed to be a trailer.
GoogleFrog This is hopefully less of a problem now


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Saktoth The light from the left is caused by the font interacting with the rock.. I could look for a workaround to remove it.
The rock doesn't have any RGB texture, it's all done via normal and displacement maps. The noise is caused by rendering the preview in a lower quality. (Even rendering such a preview takes about 6 hours per GPU)
Such a simple and short version can be done once this is finished.

Somehow I have the feeling that the unit placement is generally awkward and doesn't fit very well, but I probably shouldn't make it too complicated.
Do you have any suggestions regarding sound?

WIP:
Here's my own suggestion to make the whole thing more interesting and to get rid of the annoying singu light: Tacnuke Singu.
As this is taking a bit longer here are a few of my previous tries on explosions.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uv06ndblr0ifcqb/zkSinguplosions.mp4?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k8miiuufv58j88w/zkSinguplosion2.mp4?dl=0
This is just to let you know I'm still working on it, I'll probably still change a lot as these explosions don't look very realistic.

Thanks for all the kudos.

Looks good, now you've just got to put robots on the rock.

@autowar, what are you talking about? what is red?

Try http://www.directlinkupload.com/uploads/84.72.62.51/zkLogo.mp4

Suggestions, feel free to implement or disregard:
1) Only show units on places that won't be visible to the camera after it moves, the small light doesn't look in place imo.
2) Time the background fade effect with the sun revealing itself -> background starts fading when sun starts appearing behind the asteroid and the entire screen is black when the sun is maximally revealed.

What happens if the camera move more directly to its final location? Currently it does a bit of a jerk left at the end.