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Animation in Adobe After Effects: Glass Text or Logo VFX

teacher avatar M Jake, Lets Create VFX & Cool Stuff Together

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:42

    • 2.

      Creating Paths

      5:46

    • 3.

      3D Text

      5:41

    • 4.

      3D Lights

      4:28

    • 5.

      Animation

      5:30

    • 6.

      Basic Glass VFX

      7:42

    • 7.

      Subtle Colors

      4:54

    • 8.

      Advanced Glass

      5:36

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In this Adobe After Effects Glass Text or Logo VFX Animation class we are going to learn how to create Glass Text or Logo VFX using NO PLUGINS which is great for Tiktok, Instagram, YouTube and other social media as well as professional work. This class is great for Beginner level as well as experienced VFX and motion design artists. This is a great way to introduce yourself to Adobe After Effects, and also learn few skills if you already familiar with this software.

What we are going to learn:

  • Basics of animation
  • 3D Lighting
  • Logo Reveal Technique
  • Advanced Animation
  • Glass Effects
  • Chromatic Aberration 
  • No Plugins Required

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M Jake

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Hi, I'm Jake! I like to recreate popular VFX and create professional animation in Adobe After Effects. It's the best way to learn this software while creating something for fun!

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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Jake. This class will teach you how to create a glass text animation without using any plugins. You don't need any experience working with Adobe after effects. To learn this effect, you can even download the free trial version, and it will work fine. I'll explain each step we will take to create this animation. You can always write your questions in discussion section under any of my classes to get hell for me while creating cool effects. I think it's the best way to learn the software while creating interesting effects for fun. And to complete this class, our goal is to create this glass text animation. Be happy to see in my class as also your result after following all the steps. So let's get started. 2. Creating Paths: So I'm using Adobe After efect 2024, but you can pretty much use any version of Adootor effects. It will work fine. So I'm using standard layout by clicking here. And if you cannot see some of the panels, which you can see on my screen, for example, effXs and presets, you can go to Window and enable it from here, Effex and presets. And basically, you can enable any panel, which you can see on my screen from here. So let's create new composition. Let's click here to create new composition. And let's go to the three D render. We need to change this to advance three D, and then let's go to basics. Let's call it here, three D animation. Frame rate, let's set it to 30 frames per second, folishD. The resolution should be an 18 and 20 by 1080, which is fulishD and duration here is frames, seconds, minutes, and hours. In our case, we want to have like 10 seconds. Okay. So now we have our composition with new three D abilities. So this technique that I'm going to show you in this last is great for using text and even your own logo. So instead of importing logo, we will use text right now, but you can pretty much do the same steps by importing your logo. Just go to File, Import File, and import your logo here, and then just drag it right into this timeline by leftmost liking it like this and dragging into time. In our case, I'm going to use this horizontal type tool, leftmost liking it, and just create a box just by leftmost liking here and drag into the right just like this. And now we can just type our text. I'm going to type MGic and I want to have these characters not capitalized. So I'm going to go to this character panel, and here I'm going to click here, so it will be at all caps. Once again, if you cannot see this character panel, you can go to Window and enable it from here. Basically, any panel you can enable from here. So now we have our text. You can also change the size of it. Maybe let's set it like 400 and just click here to select Selection Tool. Then in align panel, you can just align horizontally and align vertically. So it would be directly in the center of our shot. Okay, so let's say that you have the logo in this way or you have just text, like we just did, the principle is the same. You'll need to track it or by using the mask, just left mostly on the span tool. Zoom in using scroller on the mouse, hold space bar to move around like this and left mostly in it. Then just simply start cutting your words. If you need to have the angle, you just need to left most lick and smooth the angle on these parts of your logo or text. I don't need to have this kind of angle, so I'm going to press Control Z to undo the step, and then you can just simply cut out your logo or text just like this because we need to trace these paths. By clicking on the last point, it will close the mask. Then you're going to press on keyboard to see the mask and set it to none. The same thing you need to do with this next letter or next part of your logo. In my case, I'm not going to do the whole word. I'm going to show you other way. This is a quick example of how you're going to do if you would want to go that way, so I'm closing the mask, once again, set into continue with this logo if I want. This is one of the ways how you can get these masks which we need to have for the next video of this class. But second thing which you can do is to get these paths more automatically. So this time I'm going to delete these masks. I'm going to select both of them and press delete on keyboard. I'm going to use layer Auto trace. Make sure that you've selected your text layer or logo and then go to layer autotrace. So here, if you're going to click on this checkbox, you'll see the preview of how roughly it's going to look. So here you can play around with these values to get the more ispier look. So for example, you can play around with these values and see if you'll get better result. So in my case, I want to have a lot of details. So I just click here on tolerance set 2.1, here, one, seven and four, and then click Okay. So in this case, you can see that we've got a really detailed go. But in case, if you don't want to have this kind of really detailed logo, you can just delete this one and go once again to layer out trace. Add this tolerance to higher number like one. And in this case, you will get a much more smoother edge. So basically, you can play around with this to get the look which you like. And I'm going to set these values to these numbers, so you can also play around with them and see what you like the most. Like okay. So now I get less of these points, which makes this cut out less detailed. But if I'm going to deselect this MJ text layer, I'm going to see that my text is pretty good, and you can always just select this layer and select and delete some of the points if you want, and just make sure that your mask looks good. So this is how you can speed up the process of cutting out the edge. But as you can guess, if you will take time and use this pen tool, you can get a better job than these kind of imperfections that you'll get from this or Trace tool. For this class, I'm going to leave as it is. I just want to let you know that you have both choices for high quality and for speed. And the next video, I'm going to show you how you can extrude this shape which we got. See you in the next video. 3. 3D Text: Okay, so we've just created our text, and now we don't need even our original text. We can just delete it. What we need is this layer that we've created. We can press M. And as you can see, these masks are already created for us. So in my case, I just want to delete all of these keyframes because I don't need them, select all of them and press delete. And then what we can do is to create a shape layer. So let's go to layer new shape layer. We are creating shape layer because we cannot extrude any other kind of form of content here. So we need to have the shape layer. So we can open here or just let's call it a logo. You just need to press Enter on keyboard to be able to type your logo name. And then just open here. And in contents, you can just click on Ed and just select this path. So we need to create a bunch of these paths so to know how much of these paths you want to create, by the way, click in here and extend. Need just to see how many masks we have here. So in our case, we have seven masks. So let's create seven paths. Select the path one, and press Csel D until you'll have seven paths. Then you can just select all of them and open it. By the way, really handy tool here is to press Tilda key, which is usually below the escape button. Your keyboard. And if you will hover with your mouse, you can full screen by clicking on the Steel Da key and expand any of these panels. So in our case, we want to expand this one because this is much easier way to just select each of these mask paths. So let's select one of them. Press C show C to copy then go to path one. We want to copy mask path, press Control V to paste it, so we will get the path on top of this layer. So same we need to each of these masks and paste them accordingly. So mask path two, select mask path, not the mask, but mask path, press Control C to copy, then control V to paste. Mask three, copy, paste, four, control C to copy. Control V to paste. Five, six, and seven. And now we can press till the Que once again to exit the full mode. And let's close this one, which is below, not the shape layer, but this layer and hide it by clicking on this eyeball. So now we have our paths, and this is how you can see that you've pasted all of the paths correctly. If you didn't, you just need to click on each of them. And as you can see, we have this little highlight and check if you've pasted all of the paths. So next thing which we want to do is to go here to add and select this fill. And here we can change the color by clicking here. So I'm going to set to white click Okay. Then we have a little problem. As you can see here we need to cut out. This is really easy fix. Just click here to Selection tool and just select one of the points of this mask, and now we can see that this is path five. And also, let's select this, and this is Path four. We need to select both of these paths which we just found. We need just to select the paths from which we need to cut out. So we need to select this path, which goes around and this inner part. Then when you've located, just select both of them, right mostly on them. And click group shapes. We can just open it, make sure that you've selected your group. And what we can do is to click here to add and select merge paths. And here we can also open it and set this to subtract. So this is how you can easily cut out the parts which you need to cut out. Just make sure to group them because in this way, you can just cut out anything inside the group, and it will not affect all of other layers, which is exactly what we want. We can just select this one, and this is path six, and let's select this one as well. This is path seven as so six and seven, select it, write mostly group shapes, then open it and go to Merge Path and change this to subtrack. If it didn't work as you want it, you can just swap these places, and as you can see, it could be like this when you've used subtrack. So just make sure to try to change the places. You might get the choice which you want. So now we have our logo and shape layer. This one we can just simply delete. And let's try to extrude it. First of all, we need to make this layer three D, so let's click here Otagle species and modes until you'll see this three D cube. Then just click on it. So this is already made this layer a three D layer, but we can open here and go to geometry options and we can simply change our extrusion depth. In our case, we can use something like 140 and we can play around later if you want. So now we get our simple extrusion. We can also add a bevel. So let's change maybe to nine and change bevel type to convex. Once again, if you see some imperfections, you can always select your logo, then go to this pen tool. Just simply delete unwanted points and make sure that you get really nice and clean edges. So it's a good idea at this moment to clean up your mask. Okay, so we've extruded our text, and the next video, I'm going to show you how you need to light it so it would work for our effect. See the next video? 4. 3D Lights: So we've got our text. Maybe let's reduce the bevel because it's a bit too high. Maybe let's set to something small like three, and we will change it later if we need. Okay, so now we have our text, and now let's add some lights because we will try to displace our background and we will use displacement map. And it uses the difference between white and dark parts of your image, and pure gray will be untouched. Our case, this looks pretty grayish and we don't have any gradients, so we will not be able to distort our future image. So let's add some lights to have more gradients on our text. But before let's save our project because after effects can crash from time to time. So we can just go to file, save, and save wherever you want on your computer. Click Okay. Okay, so now let's add our lights, go to layer, new light. We need to use a point light. It should be something like 40% intensity and click so we've got our first light. We can move around. For me, it's easier to select our light and press P and move here. So this is our depth. If you're going to hold shift and move from left to right, it will go really fast. So my goal is to have this kind of lighting where we have darker parts and brighter part. Then just move it wherever you want on your logo. Then I need to press Control D to duplicate it and move it up and to the left so you can see we have brighter parts and a bit darker one. So this is how we can control it. You can press P on keyboard and move it closer if you want or farther. Maybe let's set to minus ten and here as well to minus ten. So our goal is to have this really nice and interesting lighting. So let's copy this and press Control D once again and move it to the right on this letter to get interesting kind of lighting here as well. And you can always select all of these lights, and press T on keyboard, and change to wherever intensity you like the most. So let's try 55 to get a bit more of light or maybe even higher. We'll get a gradient and cross of our text, so it will be not flat. This looks nice. And at this moment, we can try to create an animation. But before we will create animation, we want these lights to follow with this shape because if we will try to animate only this shape, just like this, you can see that lighting is changing too much. In our case, we want to stay with this light on our text for all time. So to fix this, we need to select all of these lights and use this parent link, the sick web, select it, and connect to our logo just like this. Now if I'm going to select our logo and press Rn keyboard and move it, you can see that the light stays here. And first, problem which you can see that we don't have any light behind it. We just have lights in front of it. So let's move it just here to 110 degrees. And let's select our lights and press Control D to duplicate. Let's set it above, just like this, and we can even change the color. So we would know that this is different lights, press P, and just push to 150. Just don't click here and just set this to 150 because it will set all of these lights to this position. So just manually drag it to 150. So now we can just simply select each of these lights. And just move around like here to letter K, and maybe up, then select this light and move around a bit here. And this light, let's just move it up and to the right. So now if I'm going to select our logo and press R on keyboard and rotate it, you're going to see that these lights is a bit in different places, so we would get different kind of lighting from the back. So let's set this to zero, and let's close all these. And next video, we are going to actually animate our text. See you in the next video. 5. Animation: So now we have the setup. We can just simply start animating, which is pretty fun. So what we want to animate is scale, so select your logo and press S, and then hold Shift on keyboard, as you can see, I'm holding shift and press R. So basically, we will use a scale to scale it up instead of position and we will rotate our text. So let's create a simple animation. Let's create a keyframe for scale and for X rotation, which is this one. So let's create a keyframe here as well. So what is keyframe? Keyframe is basically the point in time which remembers the value of sorting property. In our case, this keyframe remembers the point in time of 0 seconds and the value of 100 of property scale. Which means that if I'm going to set here about at 3 seconds, just click here, and here at the beginning, I'm going to change the scale value. It will create another keyframe, and then it will go from this value of 485 to this value of 100. And this is how animation works inside of Adobe of erfact. It just remembers these values and goes through time from one keyframe to another. Case, if we will try to rotate it just like this, you're going to see that the point of rotation is not exactly in the middle. So let's fix this. Before we can just simply delete these keyframes and set it to zero. And to move the origin point, you just need to select our logo and press A, and to move it, we need to change this list value, which is Z space, and we need to push it to a certain amount and to know which amount you're going to use here. At the center, you once again need to look at your geometry options. So we've excluded to 140 pixels, and if we want to have the rotation exactly at the middle, we just cut it by half. So 140, we once again selecting our logo, pressing A to see anchor point, and you can just simply set here 70 or type whereever value you have there. Then divide by two. In this case, you'll get the perfect placement of our anchor point, which is the origin from which this text will be rotated. So now if I'm going to press S on keyboard to see my scale animation and hold shift and press R, I'm going to see my rotation. And if I'm going to try to rotate it, you can see that origin point is exactly at the middle, which is exactly what we want. So this is perfect, set here to zero because we want to have this let shot at 3 seconds in the middle. So we will create a keyframe and then move it here. Let's add few rotations. In my case, I'm going to just set it here to zero, but here I'm going to set to one, which basically means that I've added one full rotation. So let's see how it looks. So now we have this full rotation. You can go with the scale a lot bigger if you want. And then let's cut by clicking here on this edge to this moment, so we will have this work area. And now if I'm going to press zero numbed, we can preview our animation. So as you can see, the scale moves too slow. And in this case, what we can do, we can just simply select this last keyframe and press F nine, which basically means that it will scale down a lot faster and slower till the end. We can also go to Graph Editor and change here by clicking shift on keyboard and drag along this floor to the left, just like this. If you cannot see this kind of graph, you just need to click here. Change to edit value graph. Let's go out from this mode and press zero NumpD to see how it looks. So now you can see we have this nice scaling down animation. Let's do the same with this rotation. Select it and go to Graph Editor, press selected here as well. Press F nine and drag it to the left, just like this. Let's go out from this graph editor and press zero to see how it looks. As you can see, we have already our animation, but for my taste, it stays too close and too long here at the beginning. So let's set our time cursor here on top of these keyframes. Let's reduce this scale a bunch. So maybe something like this. Now let's see how it looks. It already looks much better. So let's press zero numpad. So now we can have this really smooth and interesting kind of animation. And if we don't want this rotation to happen that fast, we can just simply select this last keyframe, go to graph editor, and just reduce it. Hold shift to make this kind of graph and go out from graph editor by clicking here. So this is our smooth and nice animation. We can even push out a bit this scale animation. So at the end, we will have this little motion after rotation, which could look even more interesting. It looks pretty nice. So you can play around with these keyframes to get the exact look which you like and speed that works pretty well with your logo. And the next video, we are going to create our first glass distortion. So we will get something that will look like refractions and reflections. See you in the next video? 6. Basic Glass VFX: So we have our animation, and now let's imitate some reflections and reflections. Close here. And for this, we want to create another composition. We can just go to composition, new composition. This time we need to go to three D render, and we don't need to use this advanced three D. We can just simply use classic three D and go to the basic and leave all of these settings as it was folichD 30 frames per second. 10 seconds long. And we can call it final because here we will create the final effect and okay. So now we can just simply drag and drop our three D text inside of it. We can disable it, and let's go to layer and go to new and solid. Let's call it this BG for background let's make it black and click Okay and Okay. We can select it and press Control D to duplicate. And this top one, we can go to effects and presets, and let's type here fail to add a fail effect on top of this one. And let's change this to white and click Okay, and here and effects and presets, we can type here checkerboard and also drop it here. If you cannot see this effects and presets panel, once again, you can go to Window and enable it from here and any panel which you can see on my screen. We can create it a bit bigger just like this, so we will see our distortion of our effect. Let's press T on keyboard to make it not so obnoxious. Something dim like this should work fine. Also, we can write some text. It will be easier to see the effect if you will have some text here. So we can type something like best glass effect, and select all of this by clicking Control A or just leftmost licking and selecting all of this, go to character, choose wherever font you want. I've used Monster At, which is free font and available on Google and change the color to something like white. Can see I didn't select all of the texts. I just make sure that I've selected my text and then change the color to white and change the spacing by clicking here, just like this. And you can just play around with your text. I'm going to increase the space here, so I would see all of my text just like this. Also, I'm going to set here horizontal and vertical, and now we can have our background to use. So let's go to Selection Tool, and now we can go to layer new adjustment layer. And with this adjustment layer, we are going to create our glass effect. So we can press Enter and let's call it glass, V and then go to effects and presets and type here displacement map under distort displacement map, select it, and drop it here on glass VFX. If we will use this three D animation which we just created and push these values like 255 and here like 555, we will get these distortions. This is basically the basics of this as you can see, wherever we had the light, it will distort the image as well. This is why we've added these lights to get even more distortion. And this is how you can go to three D animation. And if you don't want to have this too much distortion, you can just simply select your lights. And push out just like this and go to final and see that these distortions are a bit smoother. Also, let's change this quality to full. To see how it looks, it looks much better. But as you can see, we have these edgy and sharp corners which doesn't really look that great. So this is why we don't need to use this three D animation, which we just created here. We need to pick it add a bunch of effects to solve this issue with these distortions. So let's go to the project panel and select this three D animation and drag it on this little icon here to create new composition and drop it inside of it. As you can see, we've created another composition with different name. And now we can just simply rename it this. So let's press Enter here and let's call it smooth edges. So to fix these sharp corners, we just need to select this three D animation and here effects and presets type glass and use this stylized CC glass, select. And drop it here on three D animation. And as you can see, we get these interesting effects, which we need to tweak, so it would look a lot better. First of all, we need to open here surface and change the softness to zero. Here, let's set it to something like -12 and here to 50. Basically, we can play around with these values and see what you like the best. So if I'm going to tweak this value, as you can see, we are playing around with this edge and adding this kind of outline. So if I'm going to di select this effect, enable it, you can just play around with these last two values to see how much of this effect you want to apply. So for my image, it looks like minus ten and 50 could work fine. And next thing which I want to apply is Gaussian effect. So let's type here Gaussian blur and drop it below of this one. And let's set it to ten. And now we can just see how it looks and maybe tick it even more. So for now, I'm going to leave at minus ten and 50. I'm going to go to our final composition. I'm going to move it here, so I know that this is final effect. And instead of using this one, we can just delete it, then go to Project panel and drop it here, smooth edge, and we can just disable it because we don't need to see it in order to use it. Basically, we need just to go to the glass, Vx, adjustment layer, go to effects and controls, and change here to smooth edges. Now as you can see, we're getting a lot smoother edges here. And you can play around with the values here in smooth edges. If you're going to change these values, for example, increase the blur, you can get different kind of results. So as you can see, it blends too much. So just keep this Gaussian blur at ten, so it will not blur too much. So let's go to final to see how it looks. Also, what is good to keep in mind that you can also go to the three D animation. To our logo open here and in geometry options, add a bit more of the bevel just like this. So we would have a bit more of this edge to play around in these smooth edges. So now as you can see we're getting a lot of this edge, and now we get this kind of nice edges effect and go to final and see how it looks. Once again, jump between these compositions to find the perfect balance of this effect. So in my ***, I really like these kind of values, which is not too big, basically -17 and maybe 35 or even smaller, just like ten could work even better. Just play around with these values to see how much of these edges you would want to add this kind of effect. Once again, here in displacement map, you can just reduce it a bit and find the perfect reflection which you like. And the next video, I'm going to show you how you can add a bunch of more effects to increase the visibility of this effect and make it even more interesting. See you in the next video? 7. Subtle Colors: Okay, so now we have this effect and we can press zero nape to see hot looks. It already looks pretty cool. As you can see, we can quickly fix this issue where we have just this black background, make sure to select this class VFX and click here. And as you can see, we've extended a bit of these reflections. It looks much better. And now let's add a bunch of cool effects, which you can add to make this look even better. So a few subtle effects which you can add is to select the smooth edges and just simply drag it up and use it. So let's enable it, and we can see this on top of our effect. Let's go to effects and presets and type here VR. And in this list, we need to select this chromatic aberrations effect. Drop it on these smooth edges. In this case, we can just select it and press Enter, and let's call it VR CA, which means are chromatic aberrations. Let's click here on Tagle switches and change this mode to add. Now we've added these kind of chromatic aberrations. Let's reduce them by changing here minus five and here to five, let's maybe not use the mode, and let's at this to normal instead, let's click here on Tagleswihes and change this to set it as a adjustment layer by clicking here. So now we get a much better result, and as you can see, we have these really nice chromatic aberrations on our effect. You can also play around with these values to see how much you want to apply distortions on the edges. So you can see if I'm going to set to really high number, we'll get effect basically in the setter, and if we will reduce it, just like here, we will get more of the edges as well. And we can reduce here as well, like minus two. Two, so you get this effect across all of our text, which is exactly what we want, and we can get really nice and interesting effects. So basically you can play around with these values and find the balance between the stretching of the effect and the amount by changing this to minus the value like minus four and the plus of value to same kind of value as here, but like four. The second thing which you would want to use, you can also drop this VR effect below this glass Vx. As you can see, it fixes this edge problem and you get even cleaner. Look, and as you can see we're getting really nice and slick edges of this effect. Let's also add a bit of visibility and subtle colors. So select this via CA and press Control D to duplicate. Let's track it on top. Let's undo this adjustment layer and select the chromatic aberrations and delete it. Then you can just select this rectangle tool, left most licking. We can just simply create a mask around the center just like this, and then press F on keyboard to see the mask feather and just feather it a lot, just like this. And then we can go to Tuggle and switches and set it this to add, for example. So with this kind of effect, we are adding a bit of light and increasing the visibility, as you can see. And play around to this effect and even open this mask and create a path animation here at the end, we will stay as it is. And here at the beginning, we can just go to Selection tool and leftmost double click on one of the edges, and by clicking on this little square, we can just expand it like this. So we would have a bit more light. So as you can see, now we kind of colored and added a bit more light to our glass effect. And you can always rename it. Let's call it subtle colors, close it, and press T on keyboard to see the opacity. And here, you can reduce the opacity. And as you can see by adding this little subtle light, we can increase the visibility of the edges if you would want. So another cool thing which you can do is to go to effects and presets and here type RAM, select it and gin drop on the subtle colors and set this color tap to wherever you want. In my case, I've used something like blue, and here something like red. Or any kind of color which you would want. And in this case, as you can see, we're getting these subtle colors, and our glass is getting these colors as well. And once again, by pressing T on keyboard, you can change the opacity and reduce it a bit if you would want to have this not that bright. And in the next video, I'm going to show you how you can colorize the front edge of this effect. So we would be able to read super easy this text as a final shot. See you in the next video. 8. Advanced Glass: Okay, so now what we left to do is to increase the visibility of our logo or text, and it's also really easy to do. You just need to go to our project back clicking here and select our three D animation and press Control D to duplicate. Select this duplicate and press Enter and delete this too, let's call it face because we would want to add a phase to our animation. Just leave this and then open it. Here, we don't need to change much. It's super easy. You can just select this logo, open here, close the transform. We just need to see only the geometry options. And extrusion depth, we need to set to zero, lead here. And in this case, as you can see, we are getting only this phase, just like this. So now we can use it. We can go to final and drop this three D animation phase here on top. And now, as you can see, we are getting this three D phase on top. What we can do, we can find the moment just before this final reveal. So here we don't need to see it because it messed up the illusion. And just before this last rotation, where we are going to reveal our final text, you can just find this moment just before here and cut it to this moment. And as you can see, it's invisible, and then we can see it. For my taste is a bit too thick, so let's go to three D animation phase. And just change this depth of our bevel depth. In my case, I like to use something like two, super small. Let's go to final. And as you can see, it's nice, and it's even harder to see this transition point. So let's cut it to this moment. And it's really smoothly transition to this point. So what we can do to change this color, basically, you can just color it in any color which you like. You can just go to effects and presets and type here tritone, select it and drop it here on three D animation phase. And let's change to something bright. We can change to any kind of color which we like. We can even try it bluish tone and click Okay. And here, also, let's type curves to make it a lot brighter as you can see here this color. So something like this. We can just play around with this color to whichever we like. We can go with the goldish one if you would want and click Okay, in this case, we can just disable the subtle colors at the back and press T on keyboard to change the opacity. If we will lower it even to something like 93, we already can see this kind of glass looking effect and we can even increase the light, so it will resemble this color even more just like this. Then press Zeronpe to see how it looks. So now as you can see, we've increased our visibility of this really nice effect. You can go to File, Import File, and find this image which I provided in resource step to this class. And just simply drag and drop above of our background and our text. And as you can see, it distorts the original image of your background. So basically, you can use any background and it will work fine. To fix this little problem here, you just need to go to VR, press as on keyboard and reduce the size, change the scale until it completely disappears. So for me, 95 worked well. To fix this, you can also go here and tweak these values as well. As you can see, we still have these chromatic aberrations, which you like or don't like, and you can always disable this layer. And basically, press your numpad, and as you can see, it distorts any kind of background which we will place here. By the way, if you're going to go to the glass Vx, you can move it here as well, these distortions. And once again, you can fix these kind of lines which you might don't want to see. So move it just here and fix some of the imperfections if you would want. Or just go overboard. Just like this and even add more distortions. So this is up to you of how much you would want to distort your background. As you can see, it's really dynamic and you can get really nice distortions. I'm really excited to see your project file after finishing this class. Feel free to follow me here on Skillshare. I have a lot of VFX classes. If you're going to click here on S more, you're going to see even more VFX classes. Also, I have this section of new classes this month, as well as fundamentals of Adobe after effects, logo animation, free AI tools, complex VFX, DaVinci Resolve, and even more. Have this really short class if you would want to learn even more about text animations, really cool classes on text animations. I highly recommend you to check out and try it for yourself. This one takes only 13 minutes and you'll get really powerful result at the end, as well as these kind of VFX classes, which can also take only 12 minutes. Make sure to submit your project here in projects and resources. I'm excited to see all of your projects and give you tips if you want. Once again, follow me here on Skillshare, and I'll be happy to see you in my next class. Thank you for watching.