Create the “My Paper Mind” Effect
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Run Time: 54:06 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 this tutorial posted back in Aug 2009. This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the “My Paper Mind” effect done by Javan Ivey, but with the environment in mind, Nicolas has come up with a way to save some paper (as well as about 3 days worth of paper cuts!) It is all done in After Effects without any third party plug-ins. Enjoy!
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Hair pulling over :o) … I have figured out where I was going wrong so please disregard my previous comment.
Problem 1) was solved because I had missed re-enabling the viability to the stage after adding the paper texture.
Problem 2) was simply incorrect setting of the time remapping.
Thanks anyway folks x
Kate
Hey Kate,
Umm the original color should stay the same, you can add effects >generate> color correction to tweak it back to what you want if you don’t like it after importing (make sure it is RGB)
As for the go into tunnel, it is so easy, you add what ever basic animation you want to the stage composition (where the null object is) and it multiplies like the first layer did all by itself (thanks to the expressions – as in coding he made us write.)
Hope that helped. :D
PS best way is to follow him one step/second at a time.
I have a project for school, a channel bumper. I did something i believed was fun and engaging .. but after the professor through around some comments about how drifty it was due to my basic skills in “motion tweening” .. i wanted to push the envelope far and fast. Thank YOU SO MUCH for this. It was fun and inspiring and now i get it! I get what motion graphics needs to do. I honestly wished you continued with the light tower and the rest of it. Don’t worry about the length when the quality is so far ahead! Please continue to inspire us. I will always be a fan.
Hi Nicolas,
Need some help i don’t knw much about scripting in AE.
Suppose i need to also have a script control for other postion such as “X” & “Y”
So how would i have to go about with it.
WOW! What an inspirational tutorial! I am just learning AfterEffects and this has taught me so much!
I have a timeline duration question in regards to this project.
I followed the tutorial exactly just make sure I got everything right, including the exact timeline duration. But now that I got it working exactly the way it does in the video, I wanted the movie to be longer.
So I went into the comp settings for all three comps (stage, paper_stage, main_paper [like in the example]) and changed the duration from 0:00:05:00 to 0:00:30:00, (I’m pretty sure in the video he had the comps set to 0:00:05:00, correct me if I’m wrong). Then I extended each instance in the timeline to extend to 0:00:30:00
So when I went to go and test it. That caused all the animation I was putting into the “stage” comp to pause at 0:00:05:00 in “main_paper.”
Which seems weird since I changed the durations in all three comps…
Did I forget to change the duration somewhere else?
What else could I be doing wrong?
Anybody have any ideas?
Well… Was expecting a more “complete” tutorial with all the little cool stuff that goes on, and he only shows us how to make the stage!! Rather disappointed for almost an hour tutoria that shows how to do only 5% of the full intro…
I’ve decided to do this kind of thing for my school project and i’m wondering…. Is it possible to make the initial animation in flash and then put it into the stage layer? Thanks :)
Hi Nicolas,
LOVE your work. ALL OF IT.
After many hours of many days and its complete….thank you so much for the tutorial. Heres the video…..(my first using after effects) please tell me what you think.
http://vimeo.com/32984857
Hey guys i have a quick question i am trying to add the text and for some reason when i look at the Main_paper after adding the text in different glowing colors in the Stage it shows my test as if it was just revealing the back round image which i also decided to change it up and use a trippy flower background instead of paper any advice?
Disregard my past post i solved my problem thank you and GREAT tutorial by the way
wonderful and creative tut’ !!!!!
ans it comes at the right moment for what i’m doing !!!! : ))
I never used Audio Spectrum before… real discovering for what’s it’s possible on a mask !!!!! full of possibilities !!!
Thank’s a lot !!
I think this is a great tutorial, however, when I go to use the first bit of code it tells me index is undefined. Also, timeRemap is undefined. Help! I am making my gf a valentine’s day card and I really want to use this effect in it.