Create a “Light-tastic” Logo Reveal Animation – Day 2

Feb 13th in Motion Graphics by Lloyd

In part 2 we learn how to use 32-bit compositing with custom particle shapes to create the "light-tastical" light streaking logo reveal animation.

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Author: Lloyd

I run AESCRIPTS.com which provides useful scripts for Adobe After Effects. You can follow me on Twitter @aescripts

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    adires February 13th

    PERTAMAX euyyy…

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    insic February 13th

    sweet!

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      Rishi March 6th

      your sexy

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      Yo July 12th

      hot

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      Zabi July 22nd

      I Love You

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    HSN February 13th

    Thanks for the tutorial :D

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    Rune February 13th

    Thanks a bunch! I just love all this stuff! You Rock Lloyd.

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    Mike February 13th

    Very Nice

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    Pat Reilly February 13th

    Very Cool thank you but Lloyd, what’s up with your site? AESCRIPTS.com
    I get an Internal Server Error??

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    An eager Brit February 13th

    That was sweet!, just started delving into AE and am lovin these, keep em coming.

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    illd February 13th

    Hi Lloyd,
    thanks for giving all your AE secrets away ;)
    Theres one thing that make me wonder: Although you animate the mask of the logo through the animation – the logo is stil seen all the time. I mean its mostly black, but I can see that black (masked) part . Normally, If I mask (subtract) out something it should be transparent, right? But you made it somehow black instead. How you did that? Why is the Mask not fully transparent at some parts ?

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    mehmet akif February 13th

    thank you

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    mike February 13th

    I’m not sure but could’nt you parent the Front Spot Lights point of interest to the emitters position? Just a thought, Great tut.

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    kamal98 February 13th

    the wait is finally over

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    Lloyd Alvarez February 13th

    @pat – unfortunately aescripts is starting to get more traffic than it can handle, but i’ve increased its hosting capacity so hopefully it will be fine from now forward.

    @illd – because the obscuration layer in particular doesn’t take the mask into consideration. In this particular case it wasn’t a big deal because the whole animation is over black but otherwise it might have been a limitation.

    @mike – Yep, you could do that as well. One thing that I love about AE is that there are so many ways to approach a problem.

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    crumpy crimpets February 14th

    thanks for this one as well, it is a great tutorial and you have managed to make math fun :)

    when you were discussing your throttle preset, I noticed you had multiprocessing turned off. Why is this? isn’t it better/quicker to leave that turned on? Could you maybe lay down some tips on how to get the most out of our machines? I called Adobe’s After Effects Support and they, surprisingly did not really know. I put 18 gigs of Ram in my computer and have dual quad core processors, because I know AE needs a minimum of 2 gigs per processor to fully take advantage of multiprocessing. isn’t okay to leave it on all the time? any input, feed back or snappy one liners you can offer on this is greatly appreciated.

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    giovanni February 14th

    great tutorial

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    giovanni February 14th

    one thing i would like is the custom particle that you made the ones I made looks like crap.

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    Lloyd Alvarez February 14th

    @crumpy – the way MP works is AE fires 8 background instances of the aerender application and that takes some time, so the reason I turn it on and off is that for simple quick rendering like I was getting with particular using the sphere particle it actually works faster with MP off. Hence why I wrote Throttle to be able to easily turn it on and off. For more expensive renders and making sure you have enough ram, which you do, then turn on MP.

    @giovanni – keep practicing! That’s how I got mine to look good

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    Billy February 14th

    Anyone needing any sound effects to put with their tutorial effort….go to http://www.freesound.org. You’ll have to sign up but there are literally 1000’s of sounds you can search through. You’ll definitely find one (or more) you’ll like!

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    crumpy crimpets February 14th

    thanks for the info.

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    Julien February 16th

    Wow! Awesome effect. Realy like this one!

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    alkaiam February 17th

    sweet

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    vijay February 18th

    so sweet

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    Naved Ahmed February 18th

    well thanks for sharing that was a very nice tutorial have learned alot of things from it keep it coming :)

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    aymen vfx February 18th

    thnx for this .realy intersant

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    Tobias February 22nd

    Wow thanks A LOT for this tutorial! Also great that you took the time to go into the sin/cosin part! Realy points it out nicely! What rests for us is to create something realy different now ;-)

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    dos February 24th

    so nice

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    Didier February 26th

    thanks you a lot man, really…
    now i use math in my animations and the results are great and fast!!!
    it boosted up my production speed and allows me to animate things that was only in my wishes.

    cheers from Italy.

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    Didier February 26th

    oh my god, my english is pretty bad:)

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    RZ.Design February 26th

    sometimes i don’t get it …. can u start posting the proyect so we can look at them closely ? =D

    thanks

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    Edge March 4th

    Yeah there are some parts I don’t understand too…Is there any way to post the project file ? I hope I’m not stupid… :S

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    T.Baurain March 5th

    Thanks Lloyd! You’re a great teacher.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oRNiMV9hUQ

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    Charlie Bob March 9th

    Nice tutorial, however messed up when it came to the stroke thing with the brush, I used a mouse and it didn’t look good at all, got really annoyed because I really wanted to try some stuff out with this tut. Does anyone think they can upload the project file??

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    shady March 11th

    very nice friends thanks i hope nice live all time and welcome all time

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    jason reed March 25th

    Is the video tutorial down? It worked a couple minutes ago. There is a lock shown on the video player and the HD is greyed out (tried 2 separate computers).

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      Lloyd Alvarez March 25th

      Must have been a temporary glitch as it’s working for me now.

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    V.M. Rajesh March 31st

    very nice and very happy about u r stuff Thanks

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    Hamad April 1st

    Brilliant mind.

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    Sliver April 5th

    I’m French And I love your Website !!!!! thanks

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    Sal April 13th

    Thanks for your great tutorials. You’re one helluva of a teacher. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UstAmQY5FP4

    I know, I know I still have alot to work on.

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    Klas April 19th

    So sweet!
    Thanks for the tutorial and all of the grest tips. I learned a lot, and now I´m a little bit curious about math :)

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    CgBaran Tuts April 22nd

    Nice work

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    Javier April 29th

    Hi, it lost the tint and the shine of the particles when exporting to any video format, what could be? i tried the HDR compander filter to fix it, but looks the same, maybe it’s related wiht the 8-16 bit color warning?

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      Lloyd April 29th

      You need to render in 32-bit if you want to keep the 32-bit goodness :-)

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        Javier April 29th

        Thank You, the problem was using the File/Export option… but then using the Render Queue option it just worked nice!!

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    dalia May 12th

    Thanks for the tutorial

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    dimas June 16th

    excelent..

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