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Ben Watts

My name is Ben and I’m a motion graphics designer from Swan Hill , Victoria in Australia. My day to day work consists of design for broadcast but I love doing anything VFX / 3d in my spare time. This is my number 1 passion in life, aside from my family of course ;)

Pimp Out Your Text With A Shiny Chrome Style – Tuts+ Premium
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Pimp Out Your Text With A Shiny Chrome Style – Tuts+ Premium

In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how to create some great looking 3d chrome text. I’ll demonstrate how to create gleaming edges, convincing shadows and my basic 3d workflow. Enjoy!

Design A Fantastic Floating Card Logo Reveal – AE Premium
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Design A Fantastic Floating Card Logo Reveal – AE Premium

In this tutorial we’ll break down a project I created called Motion Cards. We’ll create 3 scene’s in which we’ll animate some falling customizable placeholders that will be re purposed using Trapcode Particular for a dynamic logo reveal.

Hyper Versatile Hellfire Logo Reveal – AE Premium
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Hyper Versatile Hellfire Logo Reveal – AE Premium

In this tutorial we’ll cover a procedural reveal effect made completely with After Effects’ built in toolset. This is a versatile effect which is great for logo & text reveals or transitions. I’ll also explain a few extra ways we can use the organic burn & edge maps we’ve created to enhance your work.

Invent Your Own Custom Logo Transformation Template

Invent Your Own Custom Logo Transformation Template

In this tutorial I will show how to create a logo transformation template that can be re-purposed and features the ability to drop in any logo and have the effect and shadows update automatically… similar to something you might see on Videohive. Then, to finish off we will build a simple 3d environment plus some additional scene elements.

Dealing With Spontaneous Particle Combustion

Dealing With Spontaneous Particle Combustion

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to build up a procedural dispersion effect using Trapcode Particular. This is great for burning off logo’s, text or even 3d renders. The color and motion of the effect can be changed easily as well as the wipe angle thanks to handy global wipe control we will construct. Enjoy!