Create a Geometric Color Explosion
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and Illustrator
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 46:34 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Wes Kandel is back to show us how to combine geometric shapes made in Illustrator and then imported and animated in After Effects to create his very cool Geometrika piece.
Republished Tutorial
Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site. This tutorial was first published in May of 2009.
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By Wes Kandel
Wes is a dedicated husband, father and motion designer. His dad was an accountant. His mom was an interior designer. He loves all things design as well. He is currently based in Orlando, FL. He is Swedish.
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Great work!
Very nice!
I love it!!!! great tuto!!
Wow! This looks very clever!
wow…….gooooooooooood………..:)
This looks really good. Haven’t checked out the entire tutorial yet, but I’m sure trying it whenever I can. Thanks!
very very cool. I can see a lot of different ways to apply this. cheers
Great tutorial, Wes. Thanks for sharing it!
Greetings from Brazil.
Nice
very nice work ,,,,, i really like it
this is what i call creativity!!!
keep up the good work man
Wes,
Great tut & great technique. Thanks for sharing.
Sweet!
Thanks Alot
Nice work. Thank you for sharing your techniques.
Hey Marcus – I just took a look at your reel. Nice work!
Hey Marcus
what is the name of the music used in ur showreel
PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ reply soon!!
cool!
I’m impressed, I will try this later on today. Keep up the good work AE-TUTS.
Great flow… very nicely done!
Nice work. Cool!
what music is used?
Nice Tutorial!
The song is called “Bring It On” by Steve Aoki.
isn’t this song by “goose”?
Maybe the original version but this mix was done by Steve Aoki… unless iTunes is lying to me.
Pretty cool tune! Thanks.
The song is “Bring It On” by belgian band GOOSE.
And if Keoki edited it, then the changes are minimal. It actually sounds EXACTLY the same as the original.
So either iTunes is lying, or Keoki is trying to get credit where it’s not due!!
Whats the music??
Thanks a lot, very nice tutorial!
good work dude
Vive les Suisses et leur design !
cheers.
arnodotcom.
DUUUUDE! I am Swiss and he is SWEDISH! Why do people (almost only us americans ;) ) always mix up these two countries. Switzerland is not Sweden and Sweden isn’t Switzerland. Switzerland is in Central Europe and has the Alps and Sweeden is a nordic country that’s between Finland and Norway and they’ve got awesome chicks!
Really like it! Thank you
Im swedish too yey!
yeah the chicks are awesome!Agree
Thank you really much!
Awesome! You’re a natural teacher, Wes. And I’m glad that there’s people like you around to show how powerful AE can be in a design aspect as opposed to VFX.
Keep up the great work.
nice tutorial wes, keep it up man
Looks like a damn good tutorial, definitely gonna try this one!
Thank you! Please do more! You are really good!
Great Tutorial. I downloaded the entire tut so I could follow along. I got one question though. I added a Radial Ramp and when I export it my background doesn’t look smooth. It has “steps.” How did you export it? Did you render it in Animation then used another program to convert it into .mp4??? Please help.
I usually render out a master using Animation and then compress it for whatever delivery format is needed using Quicktime Pro or Compressor. Here’s a screen shot of my compression settings. The thing to pay attention to is your data rate. You’ll want it to be nice and high. Feel free to shoot me an email if you need further explanation.
Excellent job presenting, Wes! Loved that you spent the time setting things up correctly. Your example piece has a great look & vibe. I can see tons of possibilities by adding 3D and playing with the Z space. Thanks for sharing your work!
Brilliant tutorial, thanks a a lot,
laughed my ass off at the Bob Ross part because I was thinking the same thing.
Thanks,
Bryan
thanks mate. this is great
wow man this place is amazing
WOW :D another one to try , good work Wes.
Could you do something with your bandwidth because it takes for hours to load the video in.
Greetings from Hungary
Great work thanks
How to make referenced to a point in Adobe Illustrator. When the triangles draw!?
This is great, going to try it out
on a side note, can anyone access this link on the sidebar?
the one on the 12 awesome french short animations
it says it needs a password
http://www.blog.exxcorpio.com/2009/04/20/12-awesome-french-short-animations/
thanks a lot
[EDITOR REPLY] Thanks for catching that, I’ve removed the link.
so there’s no way to access it?
sad
The links are user provided so they would need to resubmit a working link.
damn good…
Yes~~~THKS~~~
Bring it on by Goose,
you have very good taste in music and the tut is als wicked!
none of the tutorials or the previews load for me… could anyone help?
Lots of really good stuff in this tutorial and very pleasant presentation style.
Thank you!
great tutorial you really touched on a lot of helpful stuff. i love watching these tutorials to squeeze out the tiny details about AE. you didn’t leave out a thing
lol..!!!… “wiggle the crap out of it” best quote ever!
and yes.. very nice tutorial… thanks for making it.. :-)
Hey, real quick note… AE Scripts (thanks Lloyd) has a script to parent the layers automatically. Kinda helps if you have 20, 30, 200 thousand layers… Whatever. :)
http://aescripts.com/parent-chain/
This will help cut down on the not-so-creative portion of the work.
很好!谢谢老师
Um, Wes? I ran into a problem. When I try to parent the Position of one of my Masters to the Null Object I get an error. Here is a screenshot of my error. What am I doing wrong?
Hey John – I’d be glad to take a look at that for you. The screenshot, however, is set to private, so I can’t see it.
Sorry. I’m new to Flicker so I didn’t know. Ok i made it public.
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!
amazing, one of the best i have seen yet
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!