Create a “Light-tastic” Logo Reveal Animation – Day 2
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
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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Requirements: Trapcode Particular (download the trial version here)
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PERTAMAX euyyy…
sweet!
your sexy
hot
I Love You
Thanks for the tutorial
Thanks a bunch! I just love all this stuff! You Rock Lloyd.
Very Nice
Very Cool thank you but Lloyd, what’s up with your site? AESCRIPTS.com
I get an Internal Server Error??
That was sweet!, just started delving into AE and am lovin these, keep em coming.
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 ?
thank you
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.
the wait is finally over
@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.
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.
great tutorial
one thing i would like is the custom particle that you made the ones I made looks like crap.
@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
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!
thanks for the info.
Wow! Awesome effect. Realy like this one!
sweet
so sweet
well thanks for sharing that was a very nice tutorial have learned alot of things from it keep it coming
thnx for this .realy intersant
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
so nice
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.
oh my god, my english is pretty bad:)
sometimes i don’t get it …. can u start posting the proyect so we can look at them closely ? =D
thanks
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
Thanks Lloyd! You’re a great teacher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oRNiMV9hUQ
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??
very nice friends thanks i hope nice live all time and welcome all time
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).
Must have been a temporary glitch as it’s working for me now.
very nice and very happy about u r stuff Thanks
Brilliant mind.
I’m French And I love your Website !!!!! thanks
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.
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
Nice work
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?
You need to render in 32-bit if you want to keep the 32-bit goodness
Thank You, the problem was using the File/Export option… but then using the Render Queue option it just worked nice!!
Thanks for the tutorial
excelent..
Awesome!!
Did you try it with trapcode particlar V2?
I’m testing it, but I have a problem when I personalize the particule….
Nnothing appear.
Have you got an idea?
Thx
I’ve been trying to export this correctly but I can’t seem too. Every time I export it, It renders as (at least it looks like it) as 8bpc instead of 32bpc. The “sexyness” isn’t glowing as it does in AE. Any ideas? What should I be exporting this as? .mov?
I Love You
Husna
whew! found it… :-0
I have a question. Why is it hardly visible when I export the movie? It looks way different than the one I render inside AE.
Hey this tutorial is GREAT !
The only thing is that when I want to change the particle type to Custom, I don’t see anything called custom 
I don’t know why. Can you please help me with that? Thanks a lot and keep the good work ! 
If I join AETUTS Premium, can I download a file that allows me to finish making this intro even though I don’t have Particular? Like an idiot, I made an entire video only to figure out that there’s a watermark when you render it if you’re only doing a trial of Particular…
You’d still need to buy particular unfortunately…