March 2, 2009 by John Dickinson | 7,235 views | Comments (16)
I had to whip up some quick supers last week and turned to Trapcode Form. Form was used to create the gaseous elements that sit behind the text. The font is Univers Black Oblique; using the oblique face adds a dynamic feel. The lighting was faked using a solid with the Circle effect applied and a high feather value, rotated in z-space to act as a floor. It’s often not necessary to agonize over lighting when it can be faked in this way, especially when on a tight deadline. The reflection is a flipped copy of the text/form composition, masked and feathered. Watch Movie
16 Responses to this post
March 2, 2009 at 11:39 pm |
That’s what I’m talking about John
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& if you can, post more than one post weekly. I want to learn from you more than that.
& thanks for this good one
March 3, 2009 at 8:26 am |
Love the Trapcode Form effect. Very cool. The thin blue lines and the larger blurry blob were both created with Form??? Did you add any other effects to make the blob look gaseous, like Fast Blur?
March 3, 2009 at 2:54 pm |
The lines are created using the Strings setting. The thick and thin variations were created using a string “density” of 29 and and a “Size Randomness” of 44 . No other effects were applied.
March 3, 2009 at 4:28 pm |
Awesome work John the one trapcode plugin I don’t have but I need!
March 4, 2009 at 4:49 am |
nice subtle logo change for moworks
March 4, 2009 at 11:48 am |
Hey john nice work dude. can u post tutorial and project file for this video.
March 4, 2009 at 11:54 am |
nice logo update
March 4, 2009 at 11:42 pm |
How’d you get it to look like they’re dancing strings? Did you animate the fractal strength?? Also…the reflection of the strings…did you do the same thing you did with the reflection of the text…did you just flip the strings?
March 5, 2009 at 1:23 am |
What effects did you use on the text? it’s kinda blurry and has some glow to it
is it just the glow effect?
March 5, 2009 at 2:32 pm |
To move the strings I animated the Flow Evolution and Flow X, with a Displace setting of around 145. The reflection of the Form was created using Form’s Mirror setting and Offset setting.
March 5, 2009 at 2:35 pm |
The text was duplicated, blurred and then masked. The duplicate was placed behind the main text and uses the Add blend mode. No Glow effect was used.
March 6, 2009 at 5:49 pm |
I figured you used the mirror option in Form. I was trying to recreate what you did the other night, and moving the strings was the only thing I wasn’t able to figure out. Thanks so much for your wisdom and your talent, JD!
March 28, 2009 at 6:11 pm |
can you post a tutorial? thats so fucking awesome i have to learn how to do this
April 16, 2009 at 2:14 pm |
Hi,
Just wanted to say that the design is beautiful. Thanks for the settings on form!!
September 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm |
Hi John, Can you please post the tutorial of this effect? Looking forward.
September 27, 2009 at 3:28 pm |
Hi Umar, no tutorial is planned for this effect but take a look in the Download section and you’ll find an example in this download.
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