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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Jake. And in this class,
I'll show you how you can create a cool movie trailer, logo or title reveal. You don't need to have
inexpensive plug-ins to create this template. All you need to have is any version of Adobe
After Effects. Free trial version works too. I'll share with you all
my personal tips and tricks which you need to know
to create this animation. This class is great for
beginners because I take my time to explain each and
every step which I make. This class is great for experienced Adobe After
Effects users to, because I'll show you
a few cool techniques which are pretty unique in
creating motion design. You can just download a
free trial version of Adobe After Effects if you
don't have the software yet. And we will start
from basics and gradually we'll get to
more complex stuff. 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 school movie
trailer Tile effect. I'll be happy to see
it in my class as also your result after
following all the steps. So let's get started.
2. Text Animation: Okay, so I'm using Adobe
After Effects to tabs and 21, but you can use any version
of Adobe After Effects, it will work fine. First of all, let's change
our layouts to standard. So we would see the same windows which you can see
on your screen. It will be on mine. But if for some reason
you cannot see some of the panels which you
can see on my screen. You can go to Window and
enable it from here. For example, a
character, character. So let's create our first composition to
create composition, and we can click here on
New Composition or here. Let's call this
composition source text. Make sure that it has
dimensions of Polish d 1920 by 108030 frames per second and 15 s should be enough and clear. Okay, So in this composition, we want to create our text. To read our texts,
you need to click here on this
horizontal type tool, leftmost ligand it
here and our window, you can let more
sleep, Hold and drag. To create our text box. This text box, we
can type our text. So let's type every game. Then we can choose
the selection tool. And here an Align panel. If you cannot see this
Align panel on your window, you can go to Window and
enable it from here, align and make sure that it
is in center of our screen. Align vertically,
align horizontally. Also, we can go to paragraph and make sure it's
in the center, and then go back to Align
and align it horizontally. Here you can choose
Character panel, whichever font you want to use. In my case, I downloaded
from the web, Rousseau one pond,
which is free, link to it, will be in the
solution to this video. So let's click on it and
increase the size right here. I'm going to set to 155 because it's exactly the
numbers which I chose. Also, I've decided to squish
a bit in vertical space. So I'm going to say to
90 and the spacing, I'm going to change to 44. And in this video we are
going to animate this text. So we would have some kind
of animation just like this. As you can see, we have here
3D rotating of the letters. And later we can place it any
logo inside of this text. So let's create this
animation for text. To read the animation for texts, you need to click here
to this drop-down menu. Here and animate. You need to click on
this little arrow and change to enable
per character 3D, which will allow us to rotate
each character in 3D space. Next, we need to click here once again and choose rotation. Because we want to add animation to our
rotation of each letter. So here we can choose whichever
notation we want to use. Also n, y axis, and z axis. By the way, if we would
want to rotate in x axis, we could even change here in a more options,
the anchor point. So it will rotate
from the center of our letters, just like this. So here, anymore options you can choose wherever you want to
place your anchor point. So let's set this
exploitation to zero. And we will rotate
only NY predation. So about here at nine frames, as you can see here,
I'm at nine frame. We can set this value to 70. So it would be almost
rotated to 90 degrees. But in case if I'm going
to set to an idea, you can see that some of the
letters almost disappear. For this effect, we
don't use any plugins, so we will only simulate the
3D field of each letter, but as you can see, it doesn't have any depth. So this is why we want to
rotate only 70 degrees. And later we will
take some 3D depth. So let's create a keyframe. Click on this stopwatch on about 2 s and 20th,
three frames. As you can see here,
2 s, 23 frames. We can set back to zero. So what is key-frame?
Key-frame is basically point in time, which remember, is the
value of thorium property. In our case, this keyframe
at this moment in time, which 2 s and 20th three frames. Remember is the value of zero
of the property rotation. In this moment in time, we've created another
keyframe which remembers this moment in
time, which nine frames. It remembers this
value of 70 degrees. And our property rotation, basically now Adobe
After Effects will change this rotation
from 70 degrees to zero. Basically from this
keyframe to this keyframe. So if I'm going to
scroll through, you can see that
this value changes. And this is how animation works inside of
Adobe After Effects. If we will change
this work area by clicking on this edge
and drag it here. We can press zero numbered
to see the preview. You can see we already
have this animation, but if we can create more
interesting dynamics. So let's select all
of these keyframes. Leftmost click, and
select both of them. And press F9 on keyboard It will make this
motion start slow than a bit faster and slow
towards this keyframe. We can also go to graph
editor by clicking here. And you can see this
motion in this graph, which basically means
that here is low moment, then rapid movement and slower. And to amplify this motion, we can select this
second keyframe and drag by this handle, leftmost click and
drag to the left, which basically means that
this motion will start rapidly here and then
slower towards the end. Let's press zero or not. But to see how it looks. You can see now we have
this smooth animation. So let's go out
from graph editor. Let's also add
another animation. By the way, if you will
scroll with the wheel on the mouse while your cursor
on top of this window, you can zoom in or
zoom out your window. So let's go to this Add button, which is not here, under
Animate is right here. And we need to click
here to create a property which
called tracking. With this tracking,
we can change this value and spread
these letters. Here at zero frames. I want to change this
value to maybe 240. So we will spread these letters. Then let's create a keyframe. And on this keyframe, which is last one, we want to create another
value which is zero. So basically we've
created this animation of this letters all
coming together. Once again, we can select these letters and
go to graph editor. And we can select
this last key frame, drag it to the left. So we would have this
kind of smooth ending. And this one we can drag
it also to the left, which means that this
motion will start rapidly and slower and
slower towards the end. Let's go out from
this web editor. And with discrimination
of these two animations, we can get this really smooth
and trailer like animation. And finally, we can add
some logo inside here. So I've added this logo
inside of this text. I basically double-clicked
on my text and edit. Few spaces here, just like this. And let's press zero numbered. And as you can see, now we have this space for any
logo which we want. You can change now
to any other texts. And this animation will still applies to our
text as you can see you. Okay, so let's import some logo. You can let mouse
double-click here in project panel or go
to file import file. So these files will be available in resource
step to this class. You can just drag them and
import in this text documents, you can find the links to the fire image logos if you want to choose
any other logo. And also the link to
this Rousseau font. So let's invert our fire
logo and particles. Click Import. And let's place this logo here inside
of our source texts. Just left mouse click and
drag it on top of this text. Now we can just select this and move it wherever
you want to place it. Also, we can press S on
keyboard and change the size. You can size it down to
whatever size you want. It would look fine
inside of your text. And let's also animate it. You can click on our
text and press U on keyboard to see
this last keyframe. And at this point, we want to create a
keyframe for scale. So once again, select your logo, press S to see the scale. Create a keyframe for it. Because this is the look
which we want to have a d and then drag it to beginning. Here, we can size it up
as high as you want. In my case, I've used value of 420 and also select
this last keyframe. Go to graph editor. And once again, make
sure that your animation starts rapidly and then
slower towards the end. And after this animation, you can still move around
this logo to make sure that it stays and right
place at the end. If you want to change
the size of this logo, just make sure that your
time cursor on top of this. Let's keep reading. In this case, you
can change the size. And it will not create
any other animation. Because if you will change while your cursor is another place, like here, you'll have
two types of animation. It will go to this moment
and then to this moment. So make sure to not create
any additional keyframes. So I'm going to delete this one. And we will left
with this animation. Make sure that in
the graph editor, It's still has this kind
of graph which will go faster and slower at the end. We can also make sure
that this one stays here. So now let's press is zero
number to see how it looks. You can see now we have this
perfect smooth animation. In the next video, I'm going
to show you how you can create this kind of
debt to our letters. See you next video.
3. Creating Reflections: So in this video, we
are going to create this kind of death
to our letters. We need to create
another composition. So let's click here or go to composition,
new composition. And let's call it bevel. Click. Okay. And this time we need to select our source texts and drop it
inside of bevel composition. Here we still have this
kind of animation. And now to get these
kinds of edges, we need to add some kind
of h on top of our text. So for this, we need to select our source texts and
right mouse click on it and go to layer
styles, inner glow. But this inner glow right here, we can change the blend
mode to Multiply, which basically means
that we can change to darker colors like black. So make sure here in
color change to black. And scroll down
and here in size, you can see how we can
add this inner shadow. And we need to change the
type of shadow which we got. So let's change this technique
from softer, too precise. In this case, we can get this
really nice and tight edge. So as you can see, if
we will use this kind of smaller value, like three, we can get this kind
of tight edge on each of our letters
is also on our logo. Then we need to create
a new adjustment layer. So let's go to layer,
new adjustment layer. So with this adjustment layer, we want to get rid of
this kind of edge here, look of our shadow. So let's go to
effects and presets. Waited for this to load up. If you cannot see this
effects and presets panel, you can go to Window and enable it from here,
Effects and Presets. And let's type here Fast Box Blur and drag it on this adjustment
layer, just like mostly. And drag on adjustment layer. Here we can add
some blur radius. Let's set it to 1.2 iterations. Let's change it to one. And also click on
this repeat edge pixels with the combinations
of these values, you can get this blurriness, which is you can see,
makes it a lot smoother, which is exactly what we want. So this point you might
ask how this would work. So let's create our final
composition in which we are going to add all of
these effects together. So let's click on this Create
New Composition button. And let's call it
Final Comp and click. Okay. And let's drag this
Bible inside here, and let's scroll through
to see this last point. This moment, if you are
familiar with After Effects, you could say that we can use
just simple bevel effect. So let's try Bible Alpha. And if we will
increase the edge, you can see that we already
have this kind of h, which gives the illusion of 3D, is pretty easy effect. But in our case, we don't
want just to have this kind of black and white
lighting on our letters. So let's see my
original example. You can see that we don't only have this kind of lighting, but we can also see some details and multiple colors
inside of this Bible. This is why we don't just
use this level Alpha, which kind of looks similar. So let's do it. Instead. We are going to
use the CC glass effect. Let's type here CC glass. And to use this
sea glass effect, we don't want to use on
this bevel effect itself. We will use on the background. So let me show you how it works. But first of all, let's
save this project because After Effects can
crash from time to time. So go to File, Save As, and save
whatever you want. Okay, so let's see
how this works. So first of all, we need to create a background composition. So let's click here on
greed in your composition. Let's call it BG for background. And click Okay, Here let's
drop this fire image, which I provided in resource
type to this class. So let's click and drag it to this decomposition and drop it. So now we have this
kind of background. So we have this
final composition in which we will have
all of our effect. Here we have our source
texts where we can apply our text and
our logo and Bevel, we are going to
change how much Bevel we're going to add in
here and background, we are going to feed
any images which will apply as lighting
on our letters. So let's go to final comp. Let's add this BG composition. We can hide this bevel effect by clicking on this eyeball. And on top of this
VG composition, we're going to apply
this easy glass effect. So let's drop it here. As you can see,
it already works. And to see our text itself, we also want to add
Set Matte effect. So let's type here, Set Matte, drop it on our BG layer. Here. Let's change to babble. As you can see, we already
have our texts back. Also, you can see that we have this light from our image
on top of our texts, which is exactly what we want. Now we can even play
around more with this kind of lighting
on our texts. Basically, we want to add Motion Tile effect. Let's drop it on our BG layer, and let's drop it on top here. So it will work before
all of our effects. And this order matters. Because if we are
going to apply later, it will move all of our text. And if we will set it before, you can see that we
are going to change the position of our
image behind our text. So this is why this order of
our effects really matters. So in our case, we
want to add a bit of animation on our text. We can hold alt key on keyboard. As you can see, I'm holding Alt and left mouse click
on this tile center. Here. Now we can write an expression. It will be easy. Expression type open
square bracket. Then we want to apply this
first value, which is 960. Then comma, and then type time multiply -250 and
closed square bracket. So what this expression does, it tells to this opera, to after effects that we want
to keep this first value. So let me disable
this expression. This expression means that
we don't want to move this background image
left and right. We want to stay at 960. Fundamentally. With this second part, we are saying that
if time goes on, we want to move each
second to -250 pixels, which basically means that
it will go up like this. So let's see how it looks. I'm going to click here. So
this expression will apply. And let's make sure that
this work area is a bit smaller because we
want to preview only 3 s to see if it works. Now let's press zero numbers. So now as you can
see, we already have our animation of
the text itself. And also we can see that our image is running
across of our letters. As you can see, it
looks pretty well. But here you can see clear cut. Basically to fix this, we just need to click
here on a mirror edges. So let's press here on out. But once again to
see how it looks, now, it works pretty well. Let's apply some changes
to CC glass effect to make this effect look even better
though let's close it here. So now let's tweak
the CC glass effect, open this surface and
change from vg to bevel. Now as you can see, it
already has this kind of Bible and it will change the softness, fight
and displacement. We can adjust how
this bevel looks. So in our case, if we will set the softness to really
small value even to zero, you can see that we have
this really tight babble which we want to add. Also, we can change this
displacement if you like, or increase it if you want
to have more distorted edge. In my original example, I've set it to zero, but for this class we can
play around and set it to 77 to get a bit
different result. Or you can just set
to zero if you want. Also, we can change the height. I can set it to 100
because this is basically the same amount which I've applied here in my
original example. But once again, here you
can change to your taste. I'm gonna leave at 100. And to get this
more tighter edge, we can go to bevel and
select the source text, press U two times on keyboard. And here we can
change size to one. And if we will go back to
the final composition, you can see that we have
this more tighter edge. I'm pressing Control Z and Control Shift Z to
see the difference. So you can see we're
getting more tighter edge. And finally, let's open this light part and we can
change it to a perfect slides. And to see the effect
from this property, we can create a new light. So let's go to layer. New light, changed it light type from spots to
point and click. Okay, so now we have this
kind of light and we can change how it will
light up our letters. As you can see now, we have a lot more control
over our texts. And it has even more
this 3D field on it. And as you can guess,
it works a lot better than simple bevel effect. If we're going to press P on keyboard and set it
in z space to zero. You can see only the edge, which can give this
really dramatic effect. So let's set one of the
lights, maybe about here. And then press Control D
to duplicate this slide. Select one of the lights. Press Control D to duplicate it, and then just move it lower
and maybe below like this. So at this point you can move
around your lights as you like to get different
kinds of looks. In my case, I've set
it at them like this. So we would see every
letter by the edge. You can always
change it in Z space like this if you want
to add a bit of color, our text, but in my
case I want to use it as black and all
the edges will appear. Also here we can add some
really cool trick on the light. We can go to layer
new null object. And also let's click here on
toggle switches and modes and make sure that this
null object is 3D layer. Then let's set it above and select both of
these point lights, select one of them, then hold
shift and select other one. And with this pick whip, we can parents to this null object. So this is allow us to rotate
only our null object and x space like this to get
different kinds of lighting. Or y, x is to also play
around with the lighting. But in my case, I want
to rotate it in Z space. You can see it gives this nice shimmer on
the edge of our text. So let's add some animation
using expression. Basically you need
to hold Alt key on a keyboard. Leftmost leak. You can see I'm holding
Alt and let us click on this rotation stopwatch here. Let's type time, multiply 55. If you will increase
this number, it will rotate faster. And Mike is 55,
should look fine. And now, if you want to
take a look frame-by-frame, you can see that these
lights are moving in the circle, which
looks pretty fun. So let's press your own
to see how it looks. Now as you can see, we
have pretty cool result. And next videos I'm
going to show you how you can add this
background with the lighting as also
these particles and this 3D feel to our texts. So we would have a bit of
extrusion and our text, I have this little dip. See in the next video
4. Finalizing VFX: So we already have this
pretty cool effect. And now we just want to add
a bit of depth to our title. It's pretty easy
effect to create. Select our BG layer and press
Control D to duplicate. So let's select this bottom one. We can press Enter on
keyboard to rename it. Let's call it depth.
This motion tile effect. We don't want, we can
select it and press Delete to delete it here
on this depth layer. So make sure to select it. Cc glass effect. We also don't want to have it, believe it as well. And now we want to add CC, radial blur, click hold, and drag on this that layer. Let's change it to paint
in Zoom and amount. Let's set it to maybe minus V2. So we will see this effect
beta, as you can see, we already have this
fading zoom effect, which already looks pretty fun. With this amount. We can change it how far we want to have this
kind of effect. And for some effects, it also looks pretty
cool, but narrow case. We don't want to
overdo it because we are going to apply an
effect called curves. So let's type it here, curves, interface and presets and
drop it on our depth layer. And here an alpha channel. We want to change this curve
to higher value like this. It will make this H tighter. As you can see before and after. With this amount, we can decrease how much we
can add this effect. And my original example, I've set it to
minus five because I just want to give
this little illusion, as you can see here,
and not overdo it. With this curve right here. We can make sure that
this page is tie. But also don't overdo
it because we will get this region S and our
text and some artifacts. So let's set it a bit
lower, just like this. So play around with
this amount and pick whichever value looks
best on your text. So in my case, I'm gonna
say two minus five. And as you can see,
it already has this, also this light on our texts, which is pretty cool because
you can add any moment, import any other image. For example, I am
going to import a few other images so you could see how easily you can
change the lighting. You can just open BG
layer and just drop it. Other images, let's
size it down. So we would see the
image itself has also this one and this one. So let's go back to Final comp. And as you can see, we already have different kinds of light. We can change to R1. This looks pretty cool
tool or this one. With these background images, you can pretty much change
the fill of your text. It will still have
this animation. So if you want, you can play around with different
kinds of images. But as you can see, as brighter this image
you're going to use, the more color you'll
get on your text. So feel free to experiment with different kinds of images. I'm going to delete
these images. And finally, let's
add some background. Let's go to layer new solid. Let's call it BG as well. Make sure it's black. And click okay, set it below because this
is our background. And let's add some lights as you saw on my
original example, this warmer one and
this cooler one. So let's go to layer new solid. Let's pick this color, which is more like a orange-ish. Something like this
should work fine. Click Okay, and let's call it warm light and also click a key. In our case, we can even use a fill effect and
drop it on top of it. Let's disable it and
pick this color. So it will be easier to change to any other
color if we want. Then we can just select
this ellipse tool, just like mostly here and hold, it will drop down
this menu and choose this ellipse tool
and just create this kind of mask
here in the corner. And this mask, we can open it. And mask feather is set
to high value like this. We can even set it
to highest value, something like 900, and
even change the expansion. It will take much more space. Maybe let's set it to 1,000. So it will cover most
of our background. And we can duplicate
this mask once again. With this second mask. We can decrease this
feather maybe to 500 or even 250 and
change this expansion. So basically we would
have this kind of bright spot and
this overall light. And let's set it to add. So let's close it here and click here on toggle switches and
modes to see these modes. Now let's set it to add. So basically it will also
eliminate our letters. Then we can press
T on keyboards and reduce this amount
of our opacity. We can set it to 80. And I want to add
this kind of Flickr We need to hold Alt
key on keyboard, mouse click on this stopwatch
and type the expression. This time we will go into
type wiggle, open bracket. And first value is amount, how often it will wiggle. In our case, I'm
gonna set to two, so it will not be so frequent. And second value is amount, how much percentage
it will affect. So let's set to 25. So it will not go above 100 per cent and it will not
go to 0% as well. So 25 should work fine. And just click anywhere,
just like here. And if I'm going to
solo this layer, you can see that we have
this kind of wiggle. And let's press zero
numpad to see itself. And as you can see,
it's not that frequent. If I'm going to change
this first value to Lake luteum, embrace
zero numbered. We can see this really
aggressive liquor. So I'm gonna choose you to
two. And let's close it. Let's un-solo this. And we can also
duplicate this layer, press M to see both of these masks and select both
of them just like this. Select first one, hold Shift, select second one, and
go to selection tool. And just move it here. You can also let mouse double-click on one
of these points. And this will allow us to change the size as
also to rotate it. We can set another
kind of light here, and this light we are going
to use as more cooler one. So here you can pick whatever
color which you like. We can even press
Control Shift Y, well-cited this cooler one and
rename it to cooler light. And also we can change
to other colors. So we would see this one is
blue and this one is orange. We can also select
this color light and press U double times
to see our expression. And we can make this
Flickr even less to one. So we would have a
bit of difference. Also, we can press T on keyboard and change
it maybe to 70. So it would be not
so bright or 50, it's up to you how
much light you want to use in your video. So let's press zero number
to see how it looks. We already have this kind of lights at the
bottom and our top. You can always change how
much light you want to add. Maybe here let's set
it to 70 or even 60. And also let's add some race
here at the left top corner. And maybe let's make
this light below 55 and this a bit
brighter to somebody. So to summarise,
without any plugins, you can just go to layer
new solid and call it race. Let's set it to white
color and click. Okay, then we want to use a
preset which called codons. So let's select the skirt and effect and place it on race. As you can see, we have this
kind of pretty cool effect. I'm going to press zero on up. You can see this pretty
cool animation of Gordon's. If I'm going to press
you on keyboard, you can see these keyframes. We can set it here, so it will start right here, and then right here. We can even add a bit
more of animation. So make sure on
this last keyframe, you can add amount of
predations like to, to. This animation will be
a lot more obvious. So now we don't
need these colors. We can just delete
this Tritone effect. We can open this
transform effect, and here we can adjust
our scale and height. In my case, I've used 25. Now we need to use a effect which called
polar coordinates. So let's place it here, then set it to 100 per cent
and change to react to polar. So we would have
this kind of race, which comes from the center
here with this scale width, you can change how
these rays would look. Also, I want to use
a package called linear wipe and
set it just before this polar coordinates here is important to change this
wipe angle to zero. Let's delete this keyframe on transition completion and
change it to maybe 32. With this feather, we can just factor out
this kind of edges. In my case, I've used 280. And basically now we can just
move these rays about here. We can change it in
this mode to screen. If you cannot see this moles, you just need to click
on Toggle Switches to see these modes,
set it to Screen. And also let's change this
size to something big, like 275 and move it right here. Now as you can see, we
have two bright rays. So to change that, we need to go to contrast
and set it this contrast 23, and there's brightness
to minus two. And also let's change
this practical type, summary and noise type to spline Complexity, I want
to change to one. So we would have
only this kind of little gist of these arrays. To see this ray is better. You can just increase
this amount, maybe to like 15. If you want to see them better. With this scale width,
you can change too. If you want to
have more of them. And once again,
degrees this contrast, if you want just to have a
little hint, just like this. And just by playing
with these values, you can get the race, which you like without
using any plug-ins. And finally, to get this
effect to the next level, we can just simply
add these particles, just like these particles, which is available in
resources tab to this class. And drop it on top
of your video. If you are interested,
where you can get this kind of particles, you can just type on
YouTube dust particles. And as you can see, some
people are dropping these links to free
stock footage. So let's drop this
particles layer, change this mode to add and
just move it to the left. So we would find these moments where we can see
our particles more. You can also duplicate
and right mouse click and go to
transform and flip horizontal and also move it a bit if you want to add even
more of these particles. So these ones will
be cooler ones, which is white, and these ones, we can make lake buyer. So let's solo this
layer and let's type curves effect and drop
it on these particles. Now let's go to our
blue channel and make curve like this to add
a bit of warmer colors. Then ingredient
Cheryl, we can add a bit of green and reduce here. And in red channel, let's add a lot of red. So we'll have this kind
of really kind of look. And finally, with
this RGB curves, you can increase or decrease the visibility
of these sparks. So this is basically
how you can get not only dust particles, but this kind of look of sparks. And finally, you can
just simply go to layer, new adjustment
layer and also add a curves effect and add a
bit of contrast if you want. So it would look
even more dramatic. Makes sure to post your project, has any questions in common
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