This type look is based on graphics from the trailer for Premonition. The background is some stock smoke footage with soft feathered masks and the Wave Warp effect. Replace the text in the “text” comp and adjust the range settings for the text — POSITION 1 for the top line and POSITION 2 for the bottom line. Watch movie Download project
December 23, 2007 by John Dickinson | 3,276 views | Comments (6)
December 15, 2007 by John Dickinson | 2,361 views | Comments (2)
To measure the duration between 2 keyframes or Layer Markers in Adobe After Effects, hold down the Option (Alt) key and click the first and then the second keyframe or Layer Marker. The Info panel (Window > Info) will display the duration between them. Cool.
December 9, 2007 by John Dickinson | 3,481 views | Comments (14)
You may have been wondering what the ProAnimator Importer plug-in that ships with ProAnimator actually does. It’s actually a great creative tool, allowing you to harness the fast and powerful ProAnimator animation features and apply them to your After Effects 3D layers. The eyeball image is by Martin Walls (http://www.sxc.hu). Watch tutorial
December 7, 2007 by John Dickinson | 6,085 views | Comments (12)
Here’s a simple sparks preset created using Trapcode Particular.
December 1, 2007 by John Dickinson | 6,733 views | Comments (9)
This project uses a simple index expression to offset the text layers and nulls to control the distribution using Expression Control sliders. This allows them to be freely distributed with one null while setting keyframes for Y-Position and Rotation with another. Download project
November 25, 2007 by John Dickinson | 8,123 views | Comments (21)
In this short promo I used Illustrator to recreate the logotype and logo as paths, then ProAnimator to model and animate (based on a look I found watching the trailer for the movie). The background is the Cosmic Power preset that ships with After Effects. It was perfect for what I was doing and didn’t require modification other than slowing Read more…
November 16, 2007 by John Dickinson | 3,991 views | Comments (0)
Experimenting with the presets that ship with After Effects is a great way to create some unique looks. These backgrounds are based on the Cosmic Power (Backgrounds category) and the Cells (Synthetics category) presets.
November 2, 2007 by John Dickinson | 4,788 views | Comments (6)
In my tutorials I’m always recommending experimentation as a way of getting comfortable with the After Effects tool set. After quite some time I finally got around to just sitting and playing myself – specifically with Shape Layers — and the result is some interesting looks. Download project
