Create A Beautifully Organic Coral-Like Animation

Create A Beautifully Organic Coral-Like Animation

on Aug 6th 2012 with 21 comments
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In this tutorial I will be explaining step by step how to create this organic opener. We will dive into the complex world of particles with Trapcode Particular, go over the Aux System as well as the shading. Creating the movement of particles will be done with a special expression that will create a controllable hierarchy.

I will also cover some scripts from Aescripts that can help maintain a very good workflow and save some valuable time:

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File size: 281.3 MB

Daniel Brodesky is Final_Step on Videohive
 
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My name is Daniel and I have been using After Effects for 3 years, creating projects for Videohive and freelancing for different clients. I'm self-taught. I love what I do and I do what I love. I learned a lot from tutorials and now I think it is time I make some of my own.  

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  • Marché Bantum

    CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE NAME OF THE SONG USED FROM “AUDIO JUNGLE” I NEED IT FOR A SCHOOL PROJECT? :(

    • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
      Author

      I’m so sorry mate, I didn’t save the link, something I should have done to at least credit the author. My bad…
      I have looked for over 30 minutes on AJ and still didn’t manage to find it… =\

    • Bjarke

      The song is called “In the Moment of Inspiration” :)

      • Marché Bantum

        It’s ok I found it thanks to Bjarke, Thank you anyway! :D

      • Marché Bantum

        thank you so much omg! <3333333 woo yay!

  • http://filearena.x10.mx PrakashGD

    Very Attractive

    • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
      Author

      Thank you, glad you like this :)

  • https://vimeo.com/gexproduction Gabe

    Verry Nice

    Check out this (Growing Water):

    https://vimeo.com/47021067

    made in C4D and AE
    and tell what u think
    Thx

    • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
      Author

      Thank you mate, happy to hear that.
      As for the video you posted, the idea is nice but there are many many things to work out. Something that really bothered me while watching where the transitions, they are really not smooth and natural. I also suggest you working on the movement of the text and background music didn’t fit to some extend.

      Never give it up, just learn from this project and move on the the next one which you can make times better :)

  • http://www.creativedojo.net VinhSon Nguyen

    Great stuff man, very in-depth tutorial from start to finish. :)

    • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
      Author

      Thank you mate, I appreciate it :)

  • http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/create-a-beautifully-organic-coral-like-animation/ Mostafa Tarek

    Hello it’s a great tutorial it’s really amazing but u were copied an expersion and u say int the tut.” ctrl+v that’s i copied before ” can u tell me from where u copied it please and thank you

    • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
      Author

      Thank you for your positive feedback! I thought that people could just copy it from the screen since it is there for enough time. I have copied it from a .txt file I have created for future help.

      The expressions:

      radius=200/(time+1)
      angle=time*200;
      x=radius*Math.cos(degreesToRadians(angle));
      y=radius*Math.sin(degreesToRadians(angle));
      z=time*200
      center=[640,360,0];
      add(center,[x,y,z]);

      Thanks for the note, next time the tutorial will include it.

  • Henri Papier

    hey do you know why when i try to render out the shadows disappear??

    • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
      Author

      The disappear when you try to render the project out of AE into a movie format? Actually it never happen to me…

  • http://www.zebravideo.ca video production toronto

    great tut , very indepth one .thanks

    • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
      Author

      Thanks mate :)

  • adize

    Very good tutorial with lots of useful hints! Thank you :)

    • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
      Author

      I’m glad to hear that! Happy that helped! :)

  • towhid

    i have some problem with it..it looks blurred..i can’t fix it..
    http://i.imgur.com/m5fPJ.jpg
    can you help a little that how can i get nice clean and closer look to it..

  • http://videohive.net/user/Final_Step Daniel
    Author

    There are 2 things that could be blurring it out.
    1. The fast blur effect we added to the particular layer. Simply lower the blur level or remove the effect if you don’t like it.
    2. The sphere feather parameter which can be found under the particle tab.

    Hope it helps you out :)

    Kind regards,
    Daniel.