There are a few motion graphics shots in this trailer. The first is the composite shot of the UFO approaching Earth. The UFO is actually an unused mushroom model from the game that I animated spinning around in Maya. Then, I removed the background and added the stock photo of the Earth and moved and scaled everything to give the illusion of movement through a large space.

The dripping letters were a little more complicated. First, I used a font of my handwriting that I had from an earlier project. I used this as a mask area to generated particles that would become the drips. Then is used three layers of color (for the highlights, midtones, and shadows that you see in the final lettering) to follow that drips down.