Create a Split-Flap Type Display
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and Project File
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 5:41 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at a post that was published 2 years ago in June 2009. “Split-Flap-What?” You may ask… It’s the term used for displays that are found in train stations and airports, where they typically display departure and/or arrival information and do that cool flipping of letters to display the new information.
This tutorial does not show how to create the effect from scratch but instead it is a tutorial to explain how to use the project file created by Mattias Peresini who runs the totally awesome mattrunks website which has incredible tutorials for After Effects in French. We are very happy to have Mattias doing his first English tutorial for us here at Aetuts+.
Tutorial
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Yeah Mattrunks ca fais plaisir de te retrouver sur la scène internationale ;-) bien vu !!
Wow, thats look great!
nice~ thank you~
I liked it very much
This is the best site ever……and Thanks Mr.Peresini :).
Yeah, French are on Aetuts ^^ . Bravo Mattrunks :)
Merci Mattrunks! Ca fait plaisir de te voir sur Aetuts+
Hehe super travail. Ca fait plaisir de te trouver ici !
Merci mattrunks !
Thanks a lot! especially for the non-torrent link, really helpful for those on a college network
Félicitations pour ton very good english speaking my friend ! J’ai toujours été un big big fan de ton website http://www.mattrunk.com. keep up the bon travail !
ca doit etre tout de meme marrant pour les anglos de voir l’interface de AE en français.
oops sorry for the typo… as I just said ; I like learning on http://www.mattrunks.com/
Sweet can’t wait to get home and try this one out.
kewl tutorial dude
Excelente idea incluir el torrent, ya que para bajarlo de otra forma, es
sumamente tardado.
Good point buddy, and good tutorial.
Bless.
I love this guys stuff….just can’t figure much of it out since they’ve bee in French….up to now! Great to see you here Matt. Hopefully you will put all your tutorials up here!
Not even cool! I was just about put this in a vid I’m working on right now.
Beat me to it. >:(
(Yours looks a lot better than mine, though…haha)
Thanks, Mattias, for sharing the great project file. I’ve enjoyed your website and the tutorials there now for about 4 months. Although I don’t speak French, it has been fun watching you work and trying to follow along. Kudos!
Muito bom! Adoro todos os sites tuts+. Sempre aprendo muito aqui.
Obrigado e parabéns.
Excellent, Mattrunks est désormais dans la place :)
Et puis ici, ça permet de toucher en plus des brouzoufs !
Oh wow. I’ve been waiting for something like this! Thanks!
nice !!!
http://www.pixelsrender.com.br/site/SecaoTutoriais/conteudo.php?id=31
Great tutorial! thanks for sharing!
I’ll definitely try it out, when I have time…
I’m gonna go check your website now,
regards!
Hi, that was cool to have that tutorial, flipping text. I understand how it’s supposed to work. But we don’t see how you make it happen (i assume it’s with expressions). I like the way it looks (don’t get me wrong) I’m just wondering if there will be an other round with expressions.
Thanks, and keep up with good work like that.
Nice!
I like how easy it is to download the file and begin to use it in AE. This is the first tutorial I’ve done where I’m using the project file and not creating my own along with the tutorial. It’s great, I love it, fast outcome.. but, I don’t feel I’ve really learned anything from this particular tutorial. Don’t get me wrong, the effect is great and your outcome is wonderful but I’d like to know how you created the flipping tiles.
The way you set up the files and made it so easy to change the text is great. I need to start working more towards that workflow. I realize we can’t get everything we want on here but a part 2 would be something I’d like to see.
Your accent was great, and I didn’t miss a thing! I’ve finished the tutorial and now I’m going to play. Thank you! I look forward to your future tutorials.
Well done ! :-)
That tutorial showed nothing on actually how to complete or create a flip-letter for yourself. There was no direction, this maybe the worst tutorial I have ever watched.
I was messing around and had a few questions about the file set up..
I’d like the words to start from the blank cards, flip over to the word and then stop for each line…basically just one word for each line rather than flipping to the next…
[W] [O] [R] [D] [1] [] [] [] [] []
[W] [O] [R] [D] [2] [] [] [] [] []
[W] [O] [R] [D] [3] [] [] [] [] []
[W] [O] [R] [D] [4] [] [] [] [] []
I was trying to look in the Flip folders to see how the next word was being brought in but I couldn’t figure it out. I was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I was looking at the expressions but I’m not sure how to modify it… if (toCompVec([0, 0, 1])[2] > 0 ) value else 0
cool!
super mattrunks, tu t’en sors super bien en version anglaise !!
well done !!
Psychedelic.
Nice work, but I would have prefered to have made it from scratch.
nice
Congratulations, Mattrunks.. ! Good job !
aetuts!!!!!
félicitation mattias! et très bon tuto, ça manquais justement sur ton blog!
bravo dude!
Thanks, very nice. I saw this effect on mitsubishi car ad and wanted to try and make it. You made it easy for me.
Once again thanks.
THe Ad is played in Australia.
Oh, I love to decipher all these comments written in French, very fun for me!
Neat effect by the way, just a bit frustrating that how it’s actually achieved isn’t explained in the tutorial.
Hey is there a link to the project files of your website tutorials? I clicked on all the links but couldnt find them. I dont know if youll reply but if you did have profect file links then we could learn from your great tuts
The Terminal!!!
I figured out how to complete the cards flipping with one word and then stopping the flipping cards in that row… turned off some of the rotation inside the flip filders…
[T] [H] [E] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
I’m having trouble duplicating the Flip folders to make a 2nd row.
They seem to be using the old word 1, word 2 etc.. files… I’ve also created a new Word 2 file for these new Flip folders to use for the new 2nd row word, but even when I change the files (Lettre1-2) inside the Flip folders the new row is still using the old (Word 2) file from the first row…
[T] [H] [E] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
[C] [U] [R] [I] [O] [U] [S] [] [] []
Any suggestions or help would be great, I’ve really enjoyed playing with this project, I’m so close to finish but can’t seem to solve this problem…
Hi, just wondering
1) how we can add more flips, say we want more than 5 words/flips to display
2) or how we can add more lines, say more than 10 letters
3) and how to change the color and background of the text and the shape of the box
Thanks!
and i think having the project file is great for newbies like me so at least we know what kind of effect we should get instead of wandering around blindly.
Thanks and keep up the great work!
Hey Matthias!!! This is not a tutorial – this is a template!!! It’s maybe better if you explain how to add another letter at the end – that will be a tutorial!
However, thanks! It’s great!
I totally agree with some of the above. While this looks really good and is very clever it still is just a project file, not a tutorial. Your idea of commenting stuff in the comp itself is great but it’s not a substitude for explaning your method. Some advanced users might be able to dig in and figure out how you actually achieved the effect but I guess most people stopping by on aetuts won’t.
Please add an explanation on how to get there to make it an actual tutorial so people can follow along and improve their skills. That’s the reason I come here and I bet most other people do to.
I would even go so far to say that this is something aetuts should have brought to your attention in the first place.
It is noted in the description that this is not a full tutorial.
This is a “tutorial” site…..right? Templates and project files do very little to teach people how to use AE. Most of us know that this guys site exists. If we really wanted the project file we could go to his site and get it. You should be requiring those who put up project files to create a tutorial on how they created what they are presenting.
I will try to record a full tutorial on how to do this project from scratch. Doing tutorials is easy for me in french, but more difficult in english, this is why a short project explanation was easier. But I will try to make the full tutorial, promise ;)
i hope you’ll make a full one in French too, i like to watch your tutorial in French rather in English ;), but its a cool tip anyway, i’ll try to dig in it ,maybe i can understand it better
by the way…is there any chance to put this technique in a preset
hi matt..have you done any full tutorials for this one? i really want to know the full details and steps you made.. thanks..
mazette !!!
Mattrunks sur aetuts !
Il va devenir une star international notre frenchie
It is not a tutorial… :( Please explain at least expression on the opacity parameter in FLIP comp… Does it make the letters or flip background invisible to camera when it is located behind the layer or what?
may be somebody else can explain toCompVec expression?
Thanx beforehand!
Here’s a different terminal board solution from Cartoon Smart: http://tr.im/nazH
Cool =)
J’étais sur que ça allait porter sur ça !
aaaaaah le voila le “tuto BY Mattrunks” :D
content ke tu puisses prendre part a ce site énorme!
seeyou;)
@matt: Bravo tu as le droit à tes vacances maintenant ^^
For some of you who say that it’s not a tutorial and it will be nice to explain how he did, you must know that it is almost impossible to explain each expressions, it’s for that mattrunks did this :)
thats gangsta kid! thx a big one homie, ima holla at that very soon for more inspiration!
Cartoon smart has got nothing on it! Plus it FREE!!!
I agree! Just pointing out another take on the idea. I do like that the Cartoon Smart version cycles through all the characters to get to the right ones.
you’re right homie. i didn’t see your pervious post. sorry if i sounded rude :)