Create Whispy Spirit-like Text
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy!
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 21:35 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 Quick Tutorial I posted back in May 2009. I was playing with the good ol’ built in CC plugins and came up with a fun technique. I used CC Smear as the basis to create text that appears in as if a spirit whisped into it.
Tutorial
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Lloyd please refer uTorrent as a client… [Its lightweight
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Its much cute than others……
Thanks…
Sure, you can dowload uTorrent here: http://www.utorrent.com/downloads
Hey I’m getting messed up when I go to animate it out for the LAST one. My mask is covering up my first one ((I think)) your the expert can you tell me what I’m doing or what I can do?
Yeah, when you apply the effect that causes it to suck out in the end, the effect is applied to the whole video, even the stuff that you don’t want sucked out, so you’ll have to do a mask grow in one key frame sorta deal… where you just have the mask off to the side until you actually want it, then pull it on withing one keyframe… or just duplicate the layer with one masked and the other not, just to make sure the effect is off for everything before, and then on when you want it to be… this might not be what you’re looking for, but the question was a little vague… could you upload an example of the problem?
nice tutorial
thank ‘s
i love this site. you could put the tutorials in braille and id still figure out how to “See” them.
The mentality that says “I dont like torrents or rapidshare or megaupload, etc. because pirates use those too” doesnt make much sense. Pirates use the internet, we do too. Pirates use computers, we do too. In fact, alot of you guys use Mac computers, did you know a hacker was one of the founders of Apple?
Anyhow, I think it is a good idea if it works. Torrents can be fast, and the only way they open you up to a virus is if the person sharing the file gives you the virus. I highly doubt that AEtuts is going to give anyone a virus.
Anyway, stay encouraged Lloyd and the Tuts+ network.
PS – I best some software pirates learn to use their pirated software by watching Andrews and Creative Cow’s tutorials, better not watch them anymore or you may be an eccessory. (that was a joke obviously, both are great).
- Evan Schaible
Podrían colgar este mismo tutorial mero subtitulado en español.
Gracias.
Pablo
great tut! i don’t speak enlish but i did every thing as you did but how make my result looks like your at this moment?
http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo137/69Tm/outros/hoW2.jpg
thank you
Hi nice Tut i have a problem by copy or create the five pre-compose. How can i create the last effect.sry for my bad English I came from Germany
ehm i mean the mesh effect to the another site of the name…
what software is used. i want it
I’m very very glad for this tutorial, I’m learning 2D Animation with After Effect. God bless you. Thanks a lot.
Nzuzi
thanks for giving a nice tutorial. expecting more from u sir thank u sir
Thanks…
The excellent lesson, has learnt a lot of new, thanks!
Hey I’m fairly new to After Effects and following this tutorial strange things were happening and I’m sure it must be a setting or something.
I did like you did, using a logo for my film production team but when using the smear and masks i got lots of random artefacts jumping around the screen at different points, even though i followed your every word. I even tried it as a vector and turned on Continuous Rasterize to no avail. It’s really strange.
Thanks for a great tutorial, just wish i could get it to work. Any ideas?
You could send me your project and I’ll take a look at it when I get the chance… that is strange… ae@tutsplus.com
Where is the torrent file?
When I click to download the torrent ou “save as” it saves the .mp4 file.
Could someone help me to understand why I’m having this distortions on my final piece??
thanks
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVUpocKgIGw
That’s really strange… first off, I’d pick a smaller font…. as for the side ways glitching, I don’t really know, that’s strange… if you’d like to send me the project file I can take a look at it. ae@tutsplus.com
This seems to be a bug in the CC Smear plugin with CS5, not sure about CS4. I had the exact same issues with unpredictable artifacting. As soon as you turn off CC smear artifacting goes away. Seems like just having the plugin active on the comp causes the wierd problems.
You remove all attribute to apply mesh wrap. How do you do that ? Need to use a shortcut ? or a special click ?
Are you asking how I precomposed it? go up to layer, and then Precompose.
I too am getting weird artifacting jumping out of the mask. It seems to be the ccsmear. Don’t know why?