For online entertainers, a first impression can easily turn into new followers, and possibly monetary donations down the road. A channel and overlay makeover is a common investment for growing streamers to make once they start making decent amounts of money from their streams.

 

I was tasked with creating original animated graphics for different parts of the overlay for my client’s twitch stream, helping him have a more visually appealing live stream that matched the tone of his personality, and looked like a place viewers would consider staying at for a while. I had to also create static panels that sat underneath the live stream or in the ‘About’ tab of the channel. It was my first time doing this type of job, from working on 3D elements in Adobe After Effects, to animating in Photoshop for the 2D elements.