Create a Stormy, Electric Type Reveal
Apr 29th in Motion Graphics by Markus Gustafsson
This tutorial gives a different twist on how to use the powerful form plugin. Learn how to use it to create a mysterious and electric type reveal.
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )mick April 29th
waou !!!
it’s the fiorts time i’m the firts to say : waou, very good tutorial !!!!
congratulations, from France !
every day, i come on AETUTS to see if there is a new tuto, and almost each day i’m so happy to find a new one !
thanks a lot for all the artists !!!
merci !
( )eFresh April 29th
great! Thanks
( )Dan Pope April 29th
Looks good.
( )Thanks!
los April 29th
Nice tut! This place rocks!
( )VeryStrangeFish April 29th
There’s an error on the Tutorial download link.
An ‘h’ in the adress I supposed.
Anyway, great tuts guys, thank you very much!
( )Lloyd April 29th
Fixed!
( )Justin April 29th
Markus! Great work mate, well done. You have inspired me to get all the trapcode plugins a really play around with them hehe, enjoyed the tutorial well done!
( )imsraaia April 29th
awesome… thanks…
( )KJ April 29th
Guys the link to the download movie has one too many “h” in the link.
hhttp://aetuts.s3.amazonaws.com/054_stormyelectric/stormy_electric_form_tutorial.mp4
KJ
( )Sal April 29th
Markus,
Cool!
Beautiful work. Thank you.
( )l April 29th
the form really cool i like very much
( )bashir April 29th
the download links does not work please review it
( )Lloyd April 29th
Fixed, thanks for catching that.
( )Leo Teixeira April 29th
Very very veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery cool!!!!!
( )Snorri3D April 29th
Looks Good
( )vijay April 29th
great work markur i am a huge fan of u frm india u r my inspiratin man doin good keep goin
( )cgnewbeee April 29th
hey hi … well .. even am from india … just wanted to know r .. u mr. vijay .. who teaches in frameboxx chandigarh
( )Tillimanjaro April 29th
Just got back from India(im Belgian). Reading this put a smile on my face.
India is realy getting big in animation. Citys full of advertising schoolcources. Great!
Nice tut
vijay May 1st
hi bro i am sorry i am vijay from chennai workin in sun television network
himangshu April 29th
nice
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Stefan April 29th
Simple but cool
great tutorials as usual.. Congratulations!
( )MARS April 29th
You are an inspiration to the motion graphics community, Magnus…wow…what a tute
( )CgBaran Tuts April 29th
Great work thanks
( )Dot April 29th
Cool effect and tutorial
( )Shadowzproductions April 29th
Wha..
( )That is sweet. Thanks man.
mehmet akif April 29th
very cool!
( )Simon April 29th
Yeah ! Very nice tuts, and cool effect !
A thanks come france too, tuts+ websites are very good comunautary websites !
Thanks a lot
( )illd April 29th
not bad
( )Kevin Richards April 29th
Very nicely presented tutorial, Mark! Thank you. =)
( )Sid April 29th
Thanks a lot, Markus. This was an easy to follow and well done tutorial. Maybe in the future you could film in HD, because it became hard on the eyes after a while since it wasn’t very clear. This effect rocks tho, keep on doing what you clearly do best!!
( )Richard April 30th
Id’ like to DL all the tuts here. But the problem is how to DL it. Everytime iI open the link, it seems that it would play rather than DL it. I can’t find any DL button. Please help Mr. Admin.. Tnx
( )ibox April 30th
hi bro use IDM (internet download manager),..
it will integrate with firefox, after that if you shown “tab” download this movie, then click the “tab”,…
ok
( )Lloyd April 30th
You need to Right-Click on the word DOWNLOAD and choose Save-As and you can then save the movie to your hard drive
( )David Wood April 30th
Nice effect! Near the end when you did the tracking you didn’t set the keyframes. Anyone else catch that? Well, still a cool tutorial.
( )chrisberthe April 30th
Nice effect
( )Diego SA May 1st
Cool!
( )RUGRLN May 1st
Is there any fricken tutorial for AfterEffects that doesn’t require you to buy another plug in!??!!?!?!!??!!?
( )erdinc May 1st
thanks for tut..if u can upload the video tut much more big size , we can see ae seen better, because i am new on ae and i cant see what happening good..
( )have a good day
Swany May 2nd
woo hoo! more form tutorials!
( )Ahmed Dashti May 2nd
Thanks for the Tutorial! You ROCK! It was a Great Effect.. Keep up the good work
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Neil May 3rd
this tutorial is great but this is the second one where you say duplicate the comp…in the video the STORM text duplicate lacks the fast blur. It really doesn’t work that way.
( )unska May 6th
Wow, I definately have to test this. Great tutorial!
( )cheche May 8th
Vrey nice, thanks for tuts…
( )congratulations, from china !
Himangshu Das May 10th
WoW!
( )Adam Kerow May 12th
Seriously i just dont know how to thank you guys !
( )Lollipop May 15th
I think I love U Markus! U ARE THE MAN!
( )qana6r-des.com May 16th
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( )abcd May 22nd
Great job on the tutorial, but video could use some more quality so I can see more for what’s going on lol… keep the work up!
( )kruz May 27th
sugeeeeeeeee!!
( )Kai May 28th
Awesome tutorial, I had a great time following along and learned a lot!
( )Ryan May 31st
This is the first time I’ve seen the inner-workings of Adobe After Effects. Your tutorial has captivated my mind, and I now have to master this application!
I will never forget your tutorial from this day forward, Markus! Tremendous tutorial, and thank you so much for blowing my mind and making your work something to aspire to.
( )Alessandro Ales June 1st
You’re great guys ….
Even a newbie like me can do something interesting é_è
Thank you, really
Regards from Italy
( )Teliko June 1st
Kick ass tutorial but at 16:22 my words aren’t initially covered in flames? And it looked like yours weren’t either but you paused the recording and changed it -_- can anyone help me out?
( )Mouhamad Kattan June 12th
that’s cool effect Markus and it’s easy to understand with this tutorial thank you very much
( )Sudhir971 June 12th
gr8, I am new to After effects, n dats so nice
( )thanx
ptbx June 14th
I even confuso.because from 04 minutes, seeking “fast” – “fast blur .. I do not have search .. many things .. and this is not After Effects CS3 or CS4? is that my pen drive is that it ?
( )help-me…ops:very cool.
ptbx June 14th
ah let it out .. .. I have other questions and how to open the pre-compose ?I am the new
.i understand more photoshop and flash.lol
( )after effects
MARK June 14th
It would help if you made sense and told what settings to use. New composistion. What size etc…
and i dont have trapcode =/
( )Steven Butler June 14th
Great Tutorial. Very helpful!
( )Rene June 17th
You dont need to speak so high at the end of every sentence…
( )Acskaterzz June 19th
Well please reply I don’t know how you pre-compose the other composition you just clicked on it and thats what I did but pre-composition box did not pop up please help!
Thank you very much!
( )acskaterzz June 19th
ok i need to know why when i do that color and alpha thing my screen just goes black HELP!
( )raven mikhail June 26th
great video, i have tried to recreate this a few times but when i create the text strength and add the adjustment layer then the invert and go back to the main comp, there is a white square background. i have no clue what is going on, i have followed the video about 7 times now and even watch it thur and wrote out the tutorial.
( )raven mikhail June 26th
the link to get the trap code is above the video it says to get it HERE, you click on the here to down load. thats all i did to get trapcode
( )raven mikhail June 26th
never mind i figured out what i was missing
( )Jason July 1st
Thank’s for the tutorial, form is very powerful and has so many possibilities. Here is what I put together from what you showed us. http://vimeo.com/5407763
( )CSS designer July 6th
thanks this is great stuff!
( )Caden Adam July 7th
Im abit confused on the “pre-compose” that u did for the text at the start of the film Im trying to find it but I just cant seem to find it Im using After Effects CS3 can someone tell me where to find it or a shortcut plz…
its amazing tutorial and the end result u guys are legends!
( )Juglord September 11th
Hit Ctrl+ Shift+ C or go to layer pre-compose it’s at the very bottom
( )TooNz October 28th
I went to the toolbar on the top, and clicked “Compose” and at the bottom was Pre-Compose. Not too sure if it works the same with CS3 though.
( )sodes July 8th
thanks man i appreciate u
( )dannyhimself July 30th
hi!! great tutorial, i used for my logo!
hey how is name of these font???
i try to finded but…
please tell me!
and thank`s for the tutorial man!
( )a hug from Chile!
vicente castillo August 10th
muy buen tutorial, como dicen los cagones de arriba very good!
( )gen August 28th
Awsome! Thanx u soo much, god bless the turorials, i am lovin it!
( )KtromeX3 September 3rd
Whoa great tut man :3
I bought the Trapcode Plugin 8D
But this thing help me a lot, I felt as if I was in a hole, because a girl asked me to make a few logos for our studio and this looks perfect with voice and sound effects =)
Seriously, nice one =P
( )Matiss September 24th
Very profi !
thanks for that tutorial, explain much
( )mark October 6th
Horrible tut video, horrible speaking and worthless quality.
( )JA October 27th
Hey,
( )I think I must have done something wrong. When I add the camera, 35 mm, my partical fom disappears. Turn the camera off the particl form is visable. Any ideas? I am going to start the tutorial again in hopes of the camera works as I get closer to the end. Any sugestions would help.
Thanks
TooNz October 28th
Wow, very nice.
For some reason, I can’t download the tutorial. It just keeps loading then says “Page cannot be Displayed”
But amazing nonetheless. I’m trying to become a professional at AE & PS and this tutorial helps a lot.
( )