Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series – Legend Of The Guardians
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and Cinema 4d
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 43:27 min
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Continuing our Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series, today’s tutorial will explain how to make the “Legend of the Guardians” flying logo style. In this tutorial using Cinema 4d, we will model beveled text and animate of the logo. Then in After Effects, we’ll complete our project with clouds, a lens flare, particles, and our final composite. Enjoy! ;)
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By Antonio Cerri
I am a freelancer in web, graphic and motion design for about 12 years. When he was young, I was always fascinated by the world of digital visual effects and 3D Motion Graphics, with a focus on impacts futuristic hi-tech. My passion for this work has grown increasingly, thanks to continuous research, but mainly thanks to experimentation, mixing all the graphic visual disciplines "Photography, Design type font, sound effects FX, etc.." For me it is very important, that at the end of writing work, they remain surprised and satisfied. For information and questions, please contact me through my website.
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Why did you pick this, if this had nearly the fewest votes?
Short, sweet, to the point, FREE-exactly as ifnromatoin should be!
Sad…was expecting for the transformers 3 title tutorial 1st..anyway thanks.
Transformers 3 is scheduled for July. ;)
Looks like a good tutorial but the perspective of the light rays is off?
Shouldn’t they be coming from the sun?
Good work still, thanks for sharing :)
Wow! You could do this for a living! The title production seems flawless, with amazing attention to detail.
I do have a couple of comments as it relates to the “tutorial” aspect if you won’t be offended. The script does make a great difference in how concise and precise, and therefore how understandable, the communication is. An aspect which shouldn’t be lost on those who think it’s no big deal to just “turn on the mike and ramble.” Well done. The whole point of a “tutorial” is to teach which is several quantums different than a performance piece. Anything which detracts from the communication or learning is bad and should be avoided. This piece is a great example of how much difference that actually preparing a script, or at least an outline, makes in the overall tutorial.
That said, the speech synthesizer, in some areas required some conscious distraction on a few words. Perhaps you used it for some non-trivial reason; if not, the technique might not be quite ready for prime time, at least to an english speaking audience (which I assume is your largest). However, this also shows how quality content can overcome minor distractions like needing to translate “key” for “chi” and “frame 30″ for “30 frames” and the “negative (or minus) 125″ for “less than 125.”
The background music, on the other hand, should only very rarely be used in a tutorial where it’s the communication on a unfamiliar topic which is the intent and key. Even though what you used was probably very relevant to the movie (where it was very effective) – here it was not. For the movie, it was prepared to meticulous coincide with the actual action on screen and mold emotion accordingly; here it rarely did. First, most people almost never need any emotion when they are trying to learn something; and second, for the majority it is a highly competitive sensory input which is shown to actually impair comprehension.
One place where it can be used is to actually “distract” an audience from repetition – such as in your segment where you were coding the letters repetitively. You could have cut to a later time; but, doing it real time with appropriate background music is nice too. However, it needs to be attenuated whenever a voiceover comes in, which can make it more trouble than it’s worth; again, in a tutorial setting.
Believe me, this tutorial, and the way you did it, didn’t need ANY “enhancement” from music! Personally, you could do one of these a week and it wouldn’t be enough for me. Well done!
Thank you for your comment, I really appreciated it.
Ok, awesome tut, but i was expecting HP.
Harry Potter’s title is more complex than this. I just thought it’ll be chosed.
Thanks anyway.
Sorry for my english.
Harry Potter is scheduled for August. ;)
I used several tutorials on this site to make this video of my holiday in Manicore, a small town in Amazon, Brazil
http://youtu.be/Jcxb_7_su_Y
That’s a nice vid. Good Work.
I am really let down by this; it is a shame to see Harry Potter get pushed aside by Gaurdians of Ga’Hoole, for not only does H.P.’s title animation look incredible, but the series has far larger of a fanbase of those who follow. Plus, with the final installment of the film series coming out in 22 days, it would be a great treat to see the series be sent off – After Effects-style! I did have several people I know vote for H.P. in your poll, so it really goes to show (and H.P.’s votes can show it, too) that our fanbase is strong.
Harry Potter is scheduled for August. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxxi44rOZ8o&feature=related
can you make this tutorial?
The effect is great! And I liked this movie..it was better than most animation I saw so far!
Can someone please tell me what the name of the font used in the tutorial for me to download thanks
Hi, Alif Felipe
As I said during the tutorial, the font is “Initials & Ornaments ITC Golden Cockerel”,
you find it in this link: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/golden-cockerel-init-orn-itc/
Obviously, to fit on the original movie title animation, was changed thickness of the letters with the offset-path in Illustrator.
I would love to see a title only in AE :( I dont have any 3d program.
but still awesome and thanks ;) (Y)
Hi, Dorion2210
Unfortunately, these types of bevel at the moment are taboo with the tools in After Effects.
Who knows, maybe in a few years something will change? ;)
how did you manage to get the same amount of points, close to the original font in the inner path, so that it extracts correctly?
You must start with the simple concept, if you have a path outside with 4 points, one point for each corner, the internal path must be at least 4 points, do not forget to set for both paths “set point first” to give a logical connection. Is important.
In this case, some letters have very complex paths, you must add points internally and externally to improve the result of the mesh.
anyone know where the particular preset PARTICLES IN THE SKY.ffx that he mentions can be found…. i did a search and could not find….
Hi Jason,
the name “particle in the sky” has been assigned by me, you can search on the World Wide Web, as particle system with the use of “CC Particle World,” CC Particle Systems II “or” Trapcode Particular “.
anyone know where the particular preset PARTICLES IN THE SKY.ffx that he mentions can be found…. i did a search and could not find….
The name “particle in the sky” has been assigned by me, you can search on the World Wide Web, as particle system with the use of “CC Particle World,” CC Particle Systems II “or” Trapcode Particular “.
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Hi Antonio Cerri,
this is a very cool tutorials,but i have some question want to ask you. when i import the AI files and do the follow steps, this use the loft nurbs function, when i put the text inside path ,it will happen big problem, the model will not like as the tutorials shows, mine is a big problem text model. So can you tell me how to do the inside path of the TEXT in illustrator? Thanks very much!!!
You can see this tutorial, it can help you!
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects/learn-to-create-a-variety-of-beveled-lettering/
It’s the same process to make these letters?
http://www.megadeth.com/images/Megadeth_TH1RT3EN_Cover_lg.jpg
The logo of Megadeth.
These titles are awesome. Thanks for the AI tutorial on letters.
I am an AE beginner who is a member of premium aetuts+ over this year.
Just a hobbiest when it comes to this. I do a video at a christmas charity every year and was wanting to do a rendition off the Guardian Title but I do not know the 4d tool to get it done. Any chance of getting some help?
Guardians of HOPE
The Owls of Auriga
wow amazing tut thanks Antonio Cerri
Please can somebody help me with the text for adobe illustrator Any tutorial for that?
please help!
it does not accept Illustrator files for loft NURBS
When I import to loft NURBS its making a text looks like a box
PLEASE can somebody help me, how to get this holes in “a,e,o, etc” ? I have to cut the letter into parts, but how?