Create a Stunning Website Demo Presentation

Apr 6th in Motion Graphics by Markus Gustafsson

As our world moves more and more onto the internet there are lots of websites that are worth showing off. In this tutorial Markus shows us how to create a clean and elegant solution to show off your favorite site.

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Author: Markus Gustafsson

Visit my portfolio at NinjaEffects.com.

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    Kamal Krishna April 6th

    nice. i’ve been searching for soemthing like this all over the net.
    cheers to the team!!

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    GazDenA April 6th

    Nice. Very nice!

    First?

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    ernadh April 6th

    Awesome stuff. Keep up the good work!

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    Joe April 6th

    Quite a simple effect but I like the application of it.

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    Bueaka April 6th

    Nice. Clean and simple. Good work

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    andrew bilash April 6th

    very good! thank you!

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    motojiro April 6th

    Thank you for the best i wish all good thing return to.Thank you from thailand
    ขอบคุณมากมาย

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    mido April 6th

    very cool ninja good work

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    lzx917 April 6th

    gerat cool thing contine

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    khaled April 6th

    wow
    great tutorial thank’s
    waiting for more tutorial in motion grapic

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    edk April 6th

    Very cool, I’ve always wanted to do that sort of reflections. You’ve done it brilliantly, fantastic work!

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    Bajzito April 6th

    Very nice, going to try this out right now :)

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    Rafi April 6th

    thats how i like it: fast and straight forward!

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    Sean April 6th

    Thanks to Andrew Kramer there is a simpler way to do reflections….

    http://www.videocopilot.net/presets/quick_3d_reflections/

    Just apply the preset and move on!

    One other thing…Marcus…I love the tuts man, but the screencast is not nearly as clear in full screen as many of the others around here. Since you are a regular contributor (and a great one, at that), I’d love to see you get a better screencast set up.

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    1. Yeah I know, I record everything in 1280×720, I don’t know why they get so grungy. Try downloading the tutorial and you will get it in high resolution.

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        Sean April 6th

        Markus…you are completely correct! Downloading the tutorial give a crystal clear picture! Thanks again and keep up the great tuts!

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      Lloyd April 6th

      Regarding using the quick_3D_reflections preset, just remember this old chinese saying: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” :-)

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        Sean April 6th

        Very good point Lloyd. Markus’s method is a very good one. But we have presets, scripts and expressions for reasons…..don’t we? :)

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        John April 7th

        Give a man a fish… well there is the preset but he also has a tutorial on creating the reflections and even with displacement:

        http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_reflections/

        http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_reflections_with_refractions/

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    Topher Welsh April 6th

    Awesome work dude, I have been needing something like this for some time.

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    mehmet akif April 6th

    wow. very nice

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    Dot April 6th

    Cool tutorial there isnt anything like it on the net so thanx for showing it
    would like to see more motion graphics tutorials
    thanx

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    protos studio April 6th

    Thanks for this nice tuts!!!

    What is the song, it’s very cool…

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    1. Thx! The song is: Teddybears sthlm – Automatic Lover

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    Jayblo April 6th

    Cool tutorial, May I suggest using an expression from [url=http://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/invisible-facing-away.html]Dan Ebbert[/url]

    So that we wont need to animate the opacity of those layer not facing the camera

    Thanks

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    Carl April 6th

    Mycket snyggt! Tack!

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    Ralph contreras April 6th

    Wow! These are some great tutorials. Right on!

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    Diego SA April 6th

    Oh my God!!! That’s what should be inside my portfolio. Great!

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    Payman April 6th

    Awesome work dude

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    Tom April 6th

    Bravo your idea has been just Genious and really usefull , you have a certain talent to teach tutorials you should do much more!!!!!! Thx m8

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  25. Clean and simple. Good work ^_^

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    B April 7th

    Very USEFULL and professional making good use of after effects unlike alot of other tutorials out there which just use filter effects:)

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    Phil April 7th

    Awesome Tutorial!
    Really like the result!

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    Braden Keith April 7th

    This is a very awesome effect! I love this style. However one constructive critiscim remark is:
    I know your english isn’t all that well, but I found you very hard to follow because you spoke very softly. Please speak up a little bit to compensate for the lack of perfect english. Also some knowledge was “assumed” usually I’m able to just play the audio and click while the person is saying what they’re clicking, with you I kept having to rewind to see what you clicked because I didn’t hear any instructions. And rewinding on Vimeo is a pain sometimes. haha. But thanks for sharing any way, I hope you have some more tutorials soon and that you keep my suggestions in mind! Thanks.

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    Sean April 7th

    One question…now that I’ve gotten around to it….

    Is this in CS4? I can’t separate the dimension of the camera positon in CS3. Must be a CS4 thing, I’m assuming…

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    1. Yeah, I’m using CS4, if you want to separate the XYZ dimension in CS3, you could use the effect “separate XYZ Position”

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        Brako April 29th

        what layer do you put that on?

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        Ralf June 23rd

        Same problem here. Where to put that “Separate XYZ Position”. It doesn’t work on Camera.

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    kris April 9th

    Great tut! Bad profile pic! Who uses a picture of themself eating food? Why?

    lol sorry it just seems silly.

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    Chad Fullerton April 10th

    Hi Markus! FANTASTIC tutorial, it’s something I’ve been wanting to do for my portfolio for a long time.

    Question: I notice that in the tutorial when you first previewed it with the animated text, that the camera animation looked a bit choppy… but then when you previewed the final thing there was some sort of ‘blur’ effect happening when the camera flies from the top corner to the bottom, and when the site spins around. I don’t remember seeing you adding that motion blur effect in the tutorial… how did you do it?

    THANKS!

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      Marcos April 20th

      Hi Chad!, Markus checked the motion blur switches for the layers and also checked the motion blur toggle in the timeline (moving ball with trails icon)

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    Jeremy C April 10th

    Awesome tutorial, didn’t run into any problems.

    Just wondering where you got the music for it, I’ve spent ages looking for some royalty free music for my presentation!

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      Mossawir Ahmed July 22nd

      you can compose your own music .. using FL STUDIO ;)

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    Kwaa April 11th

    This is a amazing Tutorial, very nice!

    But i want to change the image when i turn my site around. I mean, when the cammera rotates around the site, i want the backside to be another screenshot (code view). When i dubblicate the layer and replace on of the images, it wont work, cus then both will be in code view..

    Maybe not the best explanation.. If anyone could explain how i do it, i would be very very gratefull!

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      Chris April 17th

      Yes something like this would be good. If we knew how to do this we could keep layering up different images.

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        Thijs Hartman June 7th

        it is very easy to do.
        Just take another screenshot of a diffrent site page or something. And just set it on the same position as your first screen shot then when you turn when you on 90% of your turn then you only this | then you set your first screen shot off and your second screen shot on so when you turn to 180% you see your other screen shot.

        Any questions just ask

        -Thijs Hartman

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    Franky April 12th

    Awesome, I want to do this for my entire portfolio!

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    Dean April 14th

    Great tutorial!
    This will be great for a like tour of a website.
    Thanks for sharing!!

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    Chris April 17th

    nice work. I acnt wait to finish the Uni term then I can work on all the tuts :)

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    apnaysms April 17th

    awesome

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    CgBaran Tuts April 18th

    great work

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    Satya Meka April 18th

    This looks so simple but very complex inside. Good Work.

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    Matt April 18th

    Excellent tutorial, great work!

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    slb April 18th

    merci pour ce tuto, vraiment terrible !!! :)

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    oni April 21st

    Any chance you could slow down these tutorials – moving way too fast that I’m having to keep pausing and resuming.

    Are you using keyboard shortcuts? Because I don’t get the same kind of mouse functionality as you do in different parts of the tutorial

    For example, I’m completely stuck on how to manipulate the camera movement despite following your tutorial exactly.

    Any help would be apprecaited.

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    Sehel April 28th

    I would like to thank you.
    First of all for this beautifull and usefull website.

    And also for this tutorial that helped me to learn how to use AE and let me design my own composition.

    Check this out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UesjMn7Hv4I

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      Markus Gustafsson April 28th

      That looks great! I think it’s a great example how you can use this tutorial

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    Sal April 28th

    Great tutorial!

    I have a tiny question and it may seem like a dumb one but how did you convert a htm file (your snap shot of the aetuts homepage) to a jpg file.

    I’m sure the answer is as obvious as the air we breathe but I can’t figure it out.

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      Markus Gustafsson April 28th

      I took a print screen of aetuts, pasted it in photoshop and cut out all the parts I don’t want in the final picture

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    Sal April 28th

    Thank you, Markus. Clever!

    And here I was scrambling through the internet for free htm to jpg converters.

    LOL…explains why you’re giving the tutorial and I’m askingthe dumb questions.

    Thanks again

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    oni May 2nd

    Any chance of getting the AE source files for this?

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    Lollipop May 7th

    MARKUS DU ÄR BÄST!

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    Lee Hall May 8th

    Thank you! This tut is extremely useful!

    I found your site through GoMedia…It’s a fantastic resource!!!

    Keep up the amazing work!

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    ragesh May 9th

    Great tutorial. I love it.

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    Davey May 14th

    Looks cool. ^^

    I’ve never really used AE, so this might be a good time to start video editing.

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      Charmaine Lim June 14th

      I will try it out soon

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    thaï May 14th

    here’s my try!!
    http://www.photosupplements.com

    (it’s no advertising uh! i made the video for them!)

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      Lloyd May 14th

      Very well done!

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    2. That looks great! I like that you added some particles, it’s a nice touch

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    Matt Litherland May 19th

    Hi i’ve never used After Effects before but im extremely confident in Illustrator and Photoshop so i know my way around the adobe software.

    I’ve got to the aprt where u start adding keyframes, erm 8:39 into the tutorial. And for some reason i cannot add Keyframes, as there appears to be no timeline within my timeline ?

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    pablo May 31st

    Awesome! Just gave me an apporach to a clients ad! Thanks!

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    chriz June 1st

    heres my result

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    sheila June 4th

    Hi, and thanks. I have a question. After making the tech design using the brush in Photoshop, how do you do all the settings and save the file so it opens in AE with no background????

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      Thijs Hartman June 7th

      Open in photoshop a new file and then you can choose white background your own background and transparant bachground choose transparant.

      -Thijs Hartman

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    Thijs Hartman June 7th

    Hello Markus,

    I’m a 14 years old kid out the Netherlands. I saw the tutorial on AE-Tuts of the Website demo.
    I use the tutorial to make this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS1kcGveDNw
    Then i saw the website demo you made for HUB on ninjaeffects.com.
    I really really liked that one.
    Can you give me maybe some tips and tell me maybe how you did that thing whit your mouse that your mouse is also 3D.
    And whit which cam you made this?

    Really Really Thanks

    I’m a big fan :D

    -Thijs Hartman

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    Charmaine June 14th

    I am a newbies, thanks, it is very informative.

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    mario ermitiko June 18th

    the video stops at around 5 mins.

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    Chris June 19th

    Thanks a lot!! It´s so nice to find something for free with this value at those times. Keep on going. YOU… ARE GREAT!

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    baokhangluu June 26th

    I was expecting this to show ways time-based, interactive, or dynamic features of a website could be presented (Feel free to make a tutorial for that. Hint Hint Wink* Wink*). Alas it is not…BUT it would be appropriate when you really need to impress a client, unless they are the type of client who will question you as to why you are putting so much energy into presentation when you could be working on the website itself. I can see it being used on web apps, e-commerce, etc sites to show off and highlight features and content on their own pages. All in all it’s well done and slick. Very nice. KUDOS!

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    Gary July 26th

    I can honestly say that your tutorial was amazing,if I can master all the tools I will end up with the site I have been trying to achieve for ages,I am overawed by it all,but I will get stuck in and then come back here with my result,thankyou once again.

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    Chris July 31st

    Thanks for the fantastic tutorial. Although I dont have much experience of after effects I was able to follow the tutorial without any problems and use it as a basis for my new demo reel. Check out the final result here, just scroll down the homepage to the Demo Reel block:

    http://www.alpinewebdesign.co.uk/

    Thanks again for the great work.

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    Julien August 28th

    Hi, This tut helped me alot to create my very first vid on AE, I couldn’t resist to change it a bit :http://www.vimeo.com/4884249
    Thanks a lot for it

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    Lee September 4th

    Hi Markus,

    Great tut but how do you get the blur effect as the camera swings to the new position?

    Thanks!

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    panda September 22nd

    fantastic work u rock dude

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    Fatdude October 19th

    Nice tutorial…..Regards from Colombia

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    Felipe Valladares October 25th

    Hi Markus, I saw you video for SpellOfPlay – hub and I love the song, can you tell us what song is it? Please.

    Thank you so much, and good tutorial.

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    Ahmad November 8th

    that’s a very creative tut
    i’m newbie in after effects and i walked through this tutorial, but i stopped at the minute 15:50 when he right-clicked the position of the camera to choose “separate dimension”… when i pressed right click i couldn’t find this option
    first option in the menu was “Edit value…” and the second one was “Remove keyframe” and i couldn’t complete the video

    so the question is how could i separate dimensions and why this option is not available ?
    i’m working on after effects CS3
    thanks :)

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    Imone January 15th

    It’s a very good

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    Veli January 20th

    I’ve been looking for something like this for our video campaign. Keep up the great work. Thanks tons!

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