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.
View Tutorial
RSS readers: click post title to view preview video at AETUTS.
Requirements: Trapcode Particular (download the trial version here)
Instructions: Click ‘View Full-screen’ button (bottom right corner) to see this HD tutorial at maximum size. Click screen to pause, click again to play.
Download
Tutorial
Enjoyed this Post?
Subscribe to our RSS Feed, Follow us on Twitter or simply recommend us to friends and colleagues!
By Lloyd
Join our newsletter!
Create a Tutorial, Get Paid!
Have something to teach the world? Want to earn money doing it? Tutorials, screencasts, and articles published here on Aetuts+ are largely contributed by readers just like you! We'll pay you great money for good content. Find Out More
NIce effect…basic but kick ass….
Yeah! First one to comment (Hopefully)
Basic? Maybe in looks but that’s a lot of expressions!
Good AEtus.con Number One…….
Have fun. please Up tut AE more….. Thank
i luv this place. so many things to learn and its rocks! keep em coming :]
nice! Lloyd, keep up these great tuts!
…great tut! But are there comparable FREE plugins to do that? A lot of people are volunteer like me and would love to work with it if reachable for long time.
Very nice tutorial. Can’t wait for the sexiness to be added in ;-)
Best wishes,
Mark
great tutorial
thanks
My Blog
http://MotionSociety.com/blog
Hey Lloyd,
Great tutorial.
What if I want to have the light emitter travel along a path like a circle, or donut instead of linear?
How do I augment the expressions to accomplish that?
Very cool!
Great tutorial! Love the site, and can’t wait for part two.
Love it
Great Tutorial and to say in geek style: Math is sexy.
but, after sizing up the amplitude the circle doesnt look perfect. kind of angled.
to get rid of this edgeness (corner, angled)…. just increase frequency… about 155 or so…
cool!
sexy tutorial….lol
Very nice tutorial. I never though the trigonometry course i took in High School would be useful one day. Just wondering…What does the tangent function do in AE then?
Lloyd…seriously….your tutorials are ABSOLUTELY THE BEST!!!! No offense to any of the other contributors but their work is NOTHING compared to the stuff you come up with. Thanks a TON! You are THE MAN!!!!!
Hi Lloyd,
thats the first time in my live I liked listening to maths :). I use the mathfunctions rightaway in my next project. Theres a little trick you can do if you´re anoyed by the AE-lights turning on and off because of its motion:
Just set the light to an adjustmentlayer and, then it will only affect the layer bellow it. So put it as last one if it shouldnt affect anything. Thanks for the reminder of separating 2d and 3d layers in AE, thats the reason why I ran in so much problems…
Just got done with part 1….seriously….Lloyd Alvarez is the AE KING! So freakin’ sweet! As Lloyd would say….this tutorial is “DOPE!” LOL! Cannot wait for part 2!!!!!!!
hmmm….let me see now simple but very effective
crazy! made me upset I skipped math class in high school.can you make the tuts downloadable plzzzzzzzzzz
If I had to choose one cause to fight for in my life, I would choose to eradicate people who comment “first” on blogs…
ANYWAY
great tut, as always!
What about when people say NOICE!!!!!
No seriously this is womp
Thanks
@ luis: I would hold him while you punch em :)
thats a really good tutorial
I finally know why I needed to Take Trigonometry and precalc :)
thanks Lloyd. this really helped me conquer some of my expression demons and gave me a much better understanding of the possibilities.
Help , Whats wrong ?
how come i dont get the WIGGLE – WIGGLE CIRCLE Movement
with the same exact Expression
x = Math.sin(time * 10) *50;
y = Math.cos(time * 10 ) *50;
z = time * 10;
(x,y,z) + value
its just move foward toward the Z value
Sorry but its not amazing we looking for new idea and new tools.
Anyway thank you pro.
I looking for another tutorial. :)
Opps my Mistake , it works fine now.
thanks you for this good tutorial.
Abdullah….it wasn’t amazing? If it wasn’t amazing, dude….come up with your own tutorials. I’m sure we’d all find them “enlightening.” Lloyd’s tutorials are the best on the internet.
Hello Billy
It’s not personal.
You presented the material and I said what I have clearly.
I am currently I can’t subscribe to this site because the regions do not support Visa card,but I promise you I’ll give you what you needed ASAP.
@kc – make sure you keep your () and [] straight:
[x,y,z] + value
How come the text box to enter the values wont pop up?
Cool Tutorial and expressions
Thanx
hi how do i get to view this tutorial.
Great Tutotial , thanks =D
where can I find that song ?
@R.Z. – It’s not a song, it a bunch of SFX that I layered together.
Cool, this tut inspired me to do one using Particular and Lissajous figures.
Expressions rock!
thank you
Ok i am totally new but how do i even get the postion little bar???
I got a problem with it being that the dot don’t move in a sprial and also when i apply the expression it says: After Effects warning: is not an object exoression disabled.
Error occurred at line 4
comp: ‘Comp 1′
Layer: 1(‘edmitter’)
Property: ‘Position’
When using expressions you need to make sure you get your spelling correct. The light needs to be called: Emitter
Done tht bit but now i am stuck on the camara bit on how to rotate it on windows….
Awesome!
I love the siren effect at 20:50 also ;)
yeh i followed upto abot just before the sptral but it dosent work it goes in a straight line what do i do
Haha, i just love your commentary (keep it up!) and teaching style as a young student i find your tutorial easier to comprehend versus others out there and i can see where each action is being derived from, which helps out a lot.
Thanks a bunch for putting this out there!
I just started out on After Effects and am slowly learning about the program. Are there any beginner tutorial sites anyone can suggest? Anything is helpful.
Nick Campbell just finished a beginner series over at http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/category/visual-learning/ and there is always video copilot’s basic training http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/
great tutorails thanks
very nice tuto
great tutorial
thank so much
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
Nice animation thanks
Hi Lloyd . i’m a newbee to after effects, so i have a question, where do i get this grapher from..?
Comes built-in with OSX.
I’m Using a PC , what do you recommend me to do in order to get it?
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!!