Create a “Light-tastic” Logo Reveal Animation – Day 1

Create a “Light-tastic” Logo Reveal Animation – Day 1

Tutorial Details
  • Program: After Effects, Trapcode Particular
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 23:30 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this 2 part tutorial we get our hands dirty with a little expression math to create some beautifully organic light streaks that are used to reveal the AETUTS logo. In part 1 Lloyd breaks down the science behind creating a simple expression that drives the light streak emitter and shows you how easy it is to create infinite variations with ease.


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Requirements: Trapcode Particular (download the trial version here)

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  • zain

    very nice tuto

  • Hamani

    great tutorial
    thank so much

  • Dave

    that’s the attitude how the stuff works behind, not just “hey look at my super duper expression set I made, just for 9.99 bucks you can repeat it exactly the same”… c’mon

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  • http://tuts.cgbaran.com/ CgBaran Tuts

    Nice animation thanks

  • Arthur

    Hi Lloyd . i’m a newbee to after effects, so i have a question, where do i get this grapher from..?

    • http://aescripts.com Lloyd
      Author

      Comes built-in with OSX.

      • Arthur

        I’m Using a PC , what do you recommend me to do in order to get it?

  • http://GFXgamers.co.nr Joe

    Why do i keep getting ” After Effects Warning: is not an object
    expression disabled

    Error ocurred at line 4
    Comp: “Comp 3″
    Layer: 1 (“Emitter”)
    Property: “Position”

    Please Help!!

  • http://GFXgamers.co.nr Joe

    Why do i keep getting ” After Effects Warning: is not an object
    expression disabled

    Error ocurred at line 4
    Comp: “Comp 3″
    Layer: 1 (”Emitter”)
    Property: “Position
    My Expression thingy is set to
    x = Math.sin (Time * 10) * 10
    y = Math.cos (Time * 10) * 10
    z = Time * 10
    [x,y,z] + value

    • http://aescripts.com Lloyd
      Author

      javascript is case-sensitive so you need to make sure everything is capitalized correctly and in this case time should not be capitlized. You also need to add semi-colons ; at the end of each line:

      x = Math.sin (time * 10) * 10;
      y = Math.cos (time * 10) * 10;
      z = time * 10;
      [x,y,z] + value

    • Richie

      Your expression should be:

      x = Math.sin (Time * 10) * 10;
      y = Math.cos (Time * 10) * 10;
      z = Time * 10;
      [x,y,z] + value

      (simple matter of the ” ; ” )

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  • scat

    hmm my trapcode particular isn’t emitting anything when i apply it. Basically i apply the effect change the type to light and nothing, still just the light operating on the script.

    any ideas??

    • scat

      never mind i fixed it after toggling ridiculous amounts of ae options

  • Arthur Abramov

    Hey Lloyed ! i had a a problem before with AE using expressions , i fixed it somehow.

    Just wanted to thank you properly!

    Thank you very much for this !

    Arthur.

  • Michael

    Did buy and download, Trapcode Particular or does it come After Effects CS4?

  • http://VALENTINESRESORT.COM Diamondstar

    Awesome TUT AE, brings back trig flashbacks :)

  • marina

    is ther any other way to do it without using a tripcode preset- i dont have it.

  • looney

    hey great tut,
    although it seems that when i go for 32b color, when i set my logo to obscuration layer, particular doesn t really go around this. Its like the same thing to put an obscuration layer or not. Please help, I cant find anyway to solve the issue.

    thanks

  • looney

    ok i got it. It was because of the light, makes the logo too bright…

  • http://tidwellcreative.com Michael

    AArrgh! Awesome tutorial (even with the siren special effects in the background :-) But my project is due today – I’m one hour down and now no sexiness?! where’s part 2?

    *heavy sigh*

  • http://medialocal.com Michael

    Lloyd, That was great. Thank you!

  • tiff

    hey lloyd your tutorial seems to keep freezing in the middle of the Day one. Is there any problems on your end

  • Swaid

    I can’t seem to find the expression where you put the sin and cos in

    Help?!

  • http://www.languagesdirect.co.uk/ Alesia Vansise

    Interesting. Been trying to learn a new language for a while now so this is highly relevant! Thank you.

  • Carlos Alberto García

    Excelent tutorial!!!! Could you please tell me where did you get the background audio efect?