Create a Leaf Growing Network TV ID

on Jul 15th 2009 with 148 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: After Effects, Trapcode Particular Plugin
  • Difficulty: Intermediate

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Network TV ID’s are usually a 5 or 10 second piece that pleasantly announces the channel’s logo. In this tutorial you will learn how to create this real-world, network ID-style scene for your logo or type treatment using After Effects, Trapcode Particular, and stock images.

Some techniques covered will be:

  • using the layer emitter and custom particles in Particular to create growing leaves
  • using “wiggle” and “random” expressions to create wind movement in leaves
  • simple 3D AE camera use with Depth of Field (DOF) and wiggle for handheld feel.
  • using a “length” expression to tie the DOF Focus point to a NULL for easy animation
  • color grading with blend modes and overlay effects

Requirement: Trapcode Particular Plugin (download free trial here)

Tutorial

Download Tutorial .flv

File size 316MB

 
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Bryan is an animator/designer/illustrator for various forms of visual marketing, including television, print, & web. He works mostly in Adobe Creative Suite and Cinema4D. He also loves writing his own biography in third person.  

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  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d0e19e2faf6c5bd68c3db31d29df8754?s=80 prabhakar

    hey man thanks for the tuts

  • CC

    I can not see this material, please solve what, thank you share

  • http://www.iretiredat25.com Leo

    5/5

  • Stephen Curry

    Anyway to download the project files for this tutorial….such as the images and what-not

    • Stephen Curry

      never mind….didnt see the earlier post

  • http://www.yahoo.co.in PRADIP J SARKATE

    Hello… So I have no words to say more than ‘thank you’ for this …

  • panda

    great job

  • Ton

    good~thanks O(∩_∩)O

  • pekz

    from thailand said i like it.

  • jason

    i cant download ae will someone pleasee create a smilar effect for me pleassse :/

  • Mike Wilday

    Thank you, I learned some great tips in this tutorial that I am anxious to try out! Good Work

  • http://www.vectanim.com Fabien Lesbordes

    Hello mister Clark,
    A great thank for all these explainaition. Very useful method for the depth of field. I am getting better, here is my last animation.
    Best regards fron Paris, France.
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbd6df_happy-christmas_creation

  • tao

    nice tutorial! i am a new learner from Hong Kong.
    i like videocopolit.net, but the mood and tone of thieir work is too cool for me….
    i like your warm tone work!!!
    hope you can bring me more tutorial lesson.
    really great

  • Henry

    Great tutorial! The DOF trick would be very useful only i’m my scene it doesn’t work. When i animate my camera from right to the left the focus differents in the Z-axis. The Z-axis value of the FOCUS layer is constant. Any options to solve this problem?

  • Henry

    Nice tutorial! The DOF trick is very useful but doesn’t work fine in my scene. When the camera is moving from right to left the focus is not constant but the z-position of the focus layer is. Any suggestion to solve this problem?

  • kristjanfreyr

    Very nice – just the thing I needed – good job!

  • Jose

    Excellent tutorial. Thank you so much.

  • http://www.cehd.org/ CEHD

    Awesome, excellent tut! Great use of in-depth instructions, too!

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    Nice tutorial! The DOF trick is very good. Will put to use tonight.

  • Saran

    Very Nice…

  • http://stwidyanas.co.cc stwidyanas

    good brother. .

  • http://altafk.com Altaf

    amazing, amazing tutorial dude, good work keep it up. nice use of colors focus stuffs.

  • spidey

    Hi, is there any file for this? i can only download the video tutorials..

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller

      Hey, this was before we required authors to upload their project files… sorry :(

  • Daniel

    excellent Tut Dude!

    Bravo! Really well explained easy to follow good tips and expressions and of course a fantastic final work. You got your style and i like it, good luck and i hope you keep sharing with us your knowledge

  • Anisha

    WOW! Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial!!!!! Great explanations and tips. And yes, please, keep sharing more! :)

  • http://bonefracturetreatment.com/ Amy Parker

    How do you even come up with such great stuff. Very inspiring. I would like to download this tute.

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    Thanks for this useful tutorial. Your page is being added to my favorites right away!

  • Ganeshan Nadarajan

    Network TV ID’s are usually a 5 or 10 second piece that pleasantly announces the channel’s logo. In this tutorial you learn how to create this real-world, network ID-style scene for your logo or type treatment using After Effects, Trapcode Particular, and stock images.

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