In this tutorial for Digital Juice, learn how I used the Motion Designer’s Toolkit and some free grunge textures to recreate the blood splatter style used in the Inglourious Basterds trailer. Watch Tutorial
The Foundry has released 3D Camera Tracker and Kronos, two exciting new plug-ins for Adobe After Effects.
Alexander of Amateurmedia.net has created a stylish new font named Typograph Pro. Also check some of the great usage examples created within Cinema 4D.
Red Giant Software has released Colorista 2, with some exciting new features and improvements. Use motionworks10 for a 1o% discount.
Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.
Industrial Light and Magic has a new site. It’s quite amazing just how many productions ILM has been involved in.
Urban Dirty has terrific free grunge stock images and also provides color themes for various images with a downloadable .ASE file. You can import the .ASE file into After Effects using Swatch You Want.
36 Responses to this post
March 8, 2010 at 3:11 am |
First scene of the film with Christoph Waltz … great, butt everything after that a little slow a little boring
. Thanks John for the tutorial, this titles was screaming (when I see for furs time trailer)for breakdown such as this.
May 28, 2010 at 8:18 pm |
Thanks Alexander, I actually really enjoyed the film, although it was my first at the cinema in a long time! Best wishes, John.
March 8, 2010 at 7:36 am |
@Alexander.
You make great tutorials fella but you must have watched a different movie to me. Everything about that movie was awesome. In my humble opinion of course.
Thanks for tutorial John. Been waiting for this since i saw your teaser.
March 9, 2010 at 5:51 pm |
I agree Gazfx, I was enthralled throughout this film. Probably my favourite scene was in the cellar. The tension was so great and the inevitable shoot-out, so over-the-top. Top shelf! Best wishes, John.
March 10, 2010 at 2:12 am |
“Tension”
That word pretty much summed up every scene that Col. Hans Landa was in. A worthy Oscar winner. Could talk movies for hours but i wont.
Keep up the good work.
Gaz
March 8, 2010 at 10:53 am |
Hi john… im from Argentina and i like your tutorials… you are one of the best in this…
i like ask you…
how to do in after effects …
the previsualization of your videos are un full screen.. please answer..
sorry for my english .:S
March 9, 2010 at 5:41 pm |
Hi Alan, I’d love to help but I’m not exactly sure what you mean… Best wishes, John.
March 10, 2010 at 2:16 am |
I think he means when he ram previews John.
Press ctrl+3 or goto Window/Preview and tick the Full screen option.
Gaz.
March 9, 2010 at 3:16 am |
Hi,John.I loved this tutorial.Very helpful.
Funny timing.I just bought this crazy kit and spent last few nights rendering all of precomps(1566 in numbers) out in h264 low-res for reference.Can share that with you if you want
Small question.Why did you have to use light only for text ,if you could get away only with a vignette,especially,if the light is used only on text and the rest is 2D?
Cheers,Andre!
March 9, 2010 at 5:44 pm |
Hi Andre,
You don’t use the Juicer to preview the animation? I find the Juicer very useful for previewing and preparing for export… As far as the light is concerned, there is more than one way to do things in AE and I find adding a quick spot (sometimes) colored, is a fast and easy way to add some shading to layers, including text layers. Best wishes, John.
March 9, 2010 at 7:33 am |
hey, check out this very nice kinetic typography for Aldo Raine’s entire speech from Inglorious Basterds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdSBZ5WtSJc&fmt=22
March 9, 2010 at 5:46 pm |
Thanks Alex. Christoph Waltz’s Aldo character was indeed the standout performance. Best wishes, John.
March 9, 2010 at 2:09 pm |
Awesome tutorial! I loved Inglourious Basterds!
But to be a little picky, it’s spelled IngloUrious Basterds; there are two typos in the title
March 9, 2010 at 5:48 pm |
Thanks Oystein, my spell checker is to blame! Best wishes, John.
March 11, 2010 at 4:18 pm |
Dear Øystein R. Holten,with all due respect,we’re dealing here with compositing and not spell checking,so,if you wanna be picky,that’s not the right forum for that,and,John,you’ve done here an excellent job,truly outstanding.I love your tutorials.Very useful.I check your site almost on daily basis and learned from You tons of useful technics.About juicer:I prefer having all of projects I have on my home network of few but powerful pcs rendered in small resolution in h264 format.That’s how can see all of them in bridge,which I use most.Using juicer means I have to use one more software,which is one too much for me.By the way I want to participate in digieffects contest.Hope beeing a betatester of this company does not contradict my participation..?
March 14, 2010 at 2:29 pm |
Hi Andre, thanks for the explanation. Best wishes, John.
March 13, 2010 at 12:38 am |
really amazing; wish there were more work flows of this kind out there. You can get out so much more by experimenting yourself rather than following a step by step. Great work! much appreciated.
Kind regards, C
March 14, 2010 at 2:31 pm |
Thanks Claudiu. Best wishes, John.
March 14, 2010 at 6:43 am |
love the tut but i hate juicer its so messy just to import a single clip u have to follow several steps
March 14, 2010 at 2:37 pm |
Hi Ramesh, it would be nice to be able to use Bridge as well but I haven’t found the Juicer too intrusive in my workflow. Best wishes, John.
March 15, 2010 at 7:31 pm |
Why hello there! So a friend of mine sent this to me because I’m one of the team that created the look for this teaser. The company I work for cut the teaser, a trailer and a bunch of tv spots. The way we did our graphics were less difficult (I think anyways) than yours but the project itself was extremely involved.
The way we did our blood splatters was actually by getting paint and splattering it on paper and scanning them in, same with the streaks. So we didn’t need to texture it with grunge or anything because that’s how the scan was. It’s nice to know that our work is appreciated
http://www.buddhajonestrailers.com
March 19, 2010 at 3:35 am |
Hi John,
Is there a way to give you a profit by purchasing a digitaljuice bundle with their current offer ? (Toolkit 1 & 2 for instance)
March 19, 2010 at 3:45 am |
Hey Boreale,
Maybe just tell them John sent you
March 19, 2010 at 7:10 am |
Done.
April 9, 2010 at 1:28 pm |
Brilliant work-through John, very much appreciated.
Just one thing though… you misspelled Mike Myers on the comp (it’s correct on the comp name but the text in the comp is Mike Meyers).
April 11, 2010 at 5:18 am |
One day I’ll learn to spell Storm
April 14, 2010 at 10:50 pm |
I don’t wanna be a dick, but to me this seems more like a review not a tutorial. Basically, through the whole video you just walked us through (I created that and that, so here i used the shape layer..) Tutorial is something where you show how to do things step by step.
And that basically goes for products Making It Look Great too.
Thanks for understanding, no offence.
April 15, 2010 at 12:41 am |
Hi human,
Many of my free “tutorials” are step-by-step. Many are walk-throughs. I haven’t seen anywhere that a tutorial must be explicitly step-by-step. When you say “that goes for Making It Look Great too” are you saying they are merely walk-throughs? If you are I’d love to know which one’s you’ve watched and where you felt you weren’t being taught step-by-step. Best wishes, John.
May 12, 2010 at 12:03 am |
John… thanks for the tutorial.
I’m curious about your shape layer background. I guess I don’t think about nor use shape layers often… tending to create and tweak solids instead. I would have created a solid and applied a radial ramp effect.
Is there advantages to using a shape layer which I’m unaware of… or is a shape layer and a new solid layer basically the same thing?
Thanks.
May 12, 2010 at 9:01 am |
Hey Mark, Ever since Shape Layers were introduced in CS3 I’ve tended to use them more. Gradients on shape layers are far more flexible then a simple Ramp effect. Best wishes, John.
May 19, 2010 at 1:53 am |
Hi John, thanks 4the tuto and congratulations 4 this awsome site! It really helps me a lot!
Blessings from Paraguay!
May 28, 2010 at 8:19 pm |
Thanks Dhanielson, good to hear your like it
Best wishes, John.
June 9, 2010 at 1:28 am |
Hey John,
something related with this tutorial, or not, anyway… at my church they asked me for the opening for a series called “Inglorious Pastors”, here is the link, let me know what you think:
http://www.muchomotion.com and click on the “Inglorious Pastors” image to view it.
I hope you like it, I have learned tons from your tutorials.
Thank you!
Joss
June 23, 2010 at 9:42 pm |
Nice, but theres an issue with your site, when i watch the video, the top 1/3 is covered by the nav and the big pause button covers the middle of the video.
what software did u use, cinema 4d?
June 24, 2010 at 11:21 am |
Hi Nawaz,
Thank you for your comments… if you go to my website, on the right side above the logo you’ll see a little arrow, click on it and the top bar will go up. The big pause button is a mistake from the programmer that built the site, if you don’t move the mouse, the pause button will go away in 1 second.
The software used was 3DMax and After Effects
June 25, 2010 at 8:33 am |
Great work Joss. If I may say so, I feel the white text at the start doesn’t work so well. It works against the great integrated look you have created with the textured text. Thanks for sharing it and keep up the great work. Best wishes, John.
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