Create an Animated Homage to Bruce Lee – Day 3

Jan 17th in Motion Graphics by Markus Gustafsson

In day 3 of the training Markus demonstrates how to construct an interconnected After Effects scene from many different animations. You'll then learn how to track a moving camera to the scene.

This is the final video in the "Be Water" tutorial series, and should leave you with all the techniques needed to create a similar style of typographic and animated video.

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Author: Markus Gustafsson

Visit my portfolio at NinjaEffects.com.

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    Dan January 17th

    does anyone freelance AE? I need a real small thing done for hopefully real cheap (or free!)

    Let me know,

    Chords.of.Life@GMail.com

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    DKumar M. January 17th

    Nice one Gustafsson, Thanks for sharing !!

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    lek January 17th

    Thanks Markus!

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    Luis R. January 17th

    Very nice tut for AE………but I just got one question that’s bugging, What version of AE are you using??????

    After seeing the many tuts, it inspires me to kick myself in the you-know-what and get moving to learn AE.

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    mini W January 18th

    one question in mind that…um..how can the word “water” acting like flowing itself??
    u didnt mention in the tut!
    anyway!!nice tut!!

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    Markus Gustafsson January 18th

    Hey!

    Good questions!

    @Luis R, I’m using After Effects CS4
    @mini W, I used Displacement Map with radio waves to make the word “water” flow

    Cheers! Markus

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      ankit sharma May 6th

      hello sir,
      u did such a good job, i have many questions in my mind, but the majour question is that, is there any future in motion graphics cause m deciding to go in that field. i live in india and m having lots of intrest in motion graphics field. so could u please……………………..

      regards,
      ankit

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    manS January 19th

    Awesome…. TQ for tutorial…

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    Branden January 19th

    I really like these tutorials. The only gripe I have about this particular video is the end with “Be water my friend.” I think the water should wave a bit longer as it’s very short and can be easy to miss. Other then that though I love it.

    Job well done Markus

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    Gago January 19th

    Mini W….ripple effect.

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    Sergio Ordóñez January 19th

    Really good tutorials, keep it up :)

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    halli January 19th

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    crayon January 20th

    Nice tutorial !

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    Ahmed Mohsen January 20th

    Awsome!
    keep up the good work
    http://www.motionsociety.com/

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    JOweb January 22nd

    nice tuts but the video system is not really good…. I mean we can’t ALT+TAB from the video and AE without exit the fullscreen mode…
    not confortable to use… Why not add a buton “WTACH THE TUT” and then open a window with large view ?

    THX

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      Philip Rawson June 25th

      I recommend downloading the .flv tutorial video and watching it within your main media player (I use Window Media Player Classic). This way you can treat the video as you would any other, so Alt-Tab-ing to and from AE or another desktop screen is seamless.

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    Mike January 23rd

    Very Good Tutorial

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    JohnM. January 24th

    Nice Tutorial! Why is it that when I render my Comp my radial ramp comes out choppy?
    Can anyone give me any advice on how to properly do it?

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    T.Baurain January 25th

    Not to sound like a broken record but the graphic files associated with this tutorial would be great!

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    adnan January 31st

    perfect technique (: thanks for this amazing tuto

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    David Henderson February 9th

    Really nice! Keep up the good work!

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    Heaven Ideas March 4th

    Hey I loved this tutorial! It was very complete and showed a lot of great tricks!

    I tried a little typographic design of my own! To watch it:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/heavenideas/3326516612/

    Great work!

    Aetuts should open a flickr group now that flickr allows all users to post video so that we can comment on others people attempts to these aetuts!

    This site is wonderfull!!

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    CAZ March 25th

    Sweet tut…..but the audio could have been more clear and crisp.

    But hey….keep the type tuts come’n

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    Irving April 15th

    very nice tut and quote as well!

    looking forward to more tuts

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    Luchrita April 16th

    Thank you Markus! I have been looking for a tutorial just like this one for a while. I am an AE beginner and I found it fairly simple to follow. Even though some of the files are not provided, thats ok b/c the main ones are and I created the other ones myself. To make it more my own, I made some changes to my project by extending or shortening the different variables (instead of following all of the tutorial settings). This design project may not be the “next new thing” but, its new to me and I enjoyed learning some skills from it.

    P.S. The Tuts+ network is AWESOME & PPL that are choosing to gripe on the tutorials should either make a better one (since their skills are so great) or SHUT IT :P !

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    CgBaran Tuts April 22nd

    Fantastic work very inspiring

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    Hampus Nordenson May 4th

    Could someone send me the finished file as a aef file. Something is not working with mine i cant understand whats wrong.
    Does not even look close to as good as yours.
    visual.hampus@gmail.com

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  26. I Luv the tut, much appreciated. Keep them coming, it’s a blessing for us who don’t know how u did it and it also forces you to objectively look at your tech. to see if they are sharp and effective. Again THanx a million. God Bless.

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    Erik May 12th

    i’am asian…mongolia…do you know?….good work

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    Elvis August 30th

    America Owns The World

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