Home / Tutorials / The Dancing Can – Part 4
February 26, 2009 by John Dickinson  | 5,547 views | Comments (15)

In the final part of this series learn how to use After Effects’ Color Link effect to integrate the can into the background, work with various Layer Styles, create a 3D text animation and add other finishing touches.   Watch tutorial

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  • Loay
    February 26, 2009 at 2:52 pm | Reply

    Thanks for the great tutorial
    I loved the idea of making a commercial………if you can repeat it…please do :) .

  • illd
    February 26, 2009 at 3:27 pm | Reply

    Yes we Can :)

  • Mars
    February 26, 2009 at 7:04 pm | Reply

    This four part dancing can series has truly opened my eyes to the world of motion graphic design…

    Thanks JD, sooner or later we’ll be calling you GOD!!!

  • kamal98
    February 26, 2009 at 10:11 pm | Reply

    wow its finally over cant wait to try this last one

  • Juan Francisco
    February 27, 2009 at 7:53 am | Reply

    Thank you for these series! they help me a lot

  • Mr. Anderson
    March 1, 2009 at 5:32 pm | Reply

    Thank ya John!
    God bless you!

  • Boreale
    March 11, 2009 at 9:51 pm | Reply

    Hi John,
    I’ve had the opportunity to follow the 4 parts of the tutorial today, and it has been a great pleasure, full of tiny and big discoveries. Thank you so much ! :-)
    I hope you’ll make many other tutorials like this one in the future ! :-)

    By the way, 3 notes :
    - I’ve appreciated that the tutorial was cut into 4 parts : when there are so many fields covered, and so many discoveries to make, it’s pleasant to divide the meal into different dishes ! :-)

    - I’ve also appreciated to see you : it adds something to the usual video tutorials, and it gave me the feeling you were just talking to me in the present.

    - 1 problem : looking to the tutorial in Firefox, I couldn’t see the entire frame. I tried to make it full screen (F11 – on a PC), but it didn’t work… I then masked 2 bars, and it gave me a bigger height, but it wasn’t sufficient to see the whole frame… and the scroll bar didn’t allow me to see the bottom either. So, being unable to pause the video, I had no choice but to look/listen to it until the end ! :-)
    And for a few parameters you changed into AE, I couldn’t see them because they were out of my frame. (but I could follow what you said.)

    Thanks a lot John. :-)

  • John Dickinson
    March 13, 2009 at 1:56 am | Reply

    Hey Boreale, Great feedback, thanks. If the tutorial is cropped the best way to view it is to right click on the link and save the movie to your desktop. Then you can watch it offline and have access to the movie controls. This information is actually in the site FAQ ;)

  • Westbam
    January 14, 2010 at 6:43 pm | Reply

    Hoi John, well, I watched the tutorial, followed along, and I am surprised how easy it was, almost no manual key-frames, and the audio tricks and the Color link where mind blowing, and manual text transitions are more fun than the pre-sets. Thnx again, here is my result. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8z3_yK_uk

  • detona66
    February 14, 2010 at 8:40 am | Reply

    Hi, how make illustrator picture ?

    • John Dickinson
      February 14, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Reply

      The image used here is copyright to Adobe but you could try any can in it’s place…


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