Creating A Smooth And Colorful Audio Reactant Background – Tuts+ Premium
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Creating A Smooth And Colorful Audio Reactant Background – Tuts+ Premium

on Jun 13th 2012 with 11 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and iExpressions
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 22:32 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In today’s tutorial we’re going to create a background that will react to whatever audio you drop in. To make it work, we’ll link both the color of the ramp and the evolution of the turbulent displace to the audio. Though this may seem simple, we’ll be covering some rather complex tips to get the best result.

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  • Jared

    I appreciate the tutorials, but I sometimes wonder why some of them are posted. This just looks awful and seems to be have been posted just to have the site updated.

    • Peter

      I second that.

      • Chet

        Yes, I understand that it doesn’t have to be beautiful to help people learn techniques, but… I mean this looks terrible, I would almost go as far as to say uninspiring. A little polish goes a long way.

      • Chet

        I just saw this is premium as well. As I said before it may be full of helpful tips, but this is not good advertising for premium content. Perhaps a better description of the content would help make it more appealing than the lack of effort put into the final result?

    • http://www.mamoworld.com Mathias Möhl

      Thanks a lot for your feedback! The more feedback, the better we know that you want to see.

      Just to explain the contribution of my tutorial: Its about a technique, the focus is not on a great visual effect. Its not obvious how to control color transitions and pattern evolution based on audio. Its one ingredient for an interesting looking clip, but in a final project, it of course needs to be combined with an interesting foreground.

  • knalle

    yeah this isn’t that ‘premium’ :-S

  • Aragon

    Premium !! > > R U joking ??

  • Raymond

    I’ve seen a lot of the premium stuff and usually it is crap. I bet they pay more money to the premium authors and the director in charge of AEtuts is making sure his buds are the ones getting the money and they are splitting it. Because that is the only thing that makes sense when I see the high quality tuts are not premium and what could also be the case is if they only made the quality ones pay only and left the crap for non-paying this site would die in a heart beat as competition is growing. Some aspects of this company is cool but they seem to be losing grasp of what people want to see and they have expanded to fast and the quality is going to shit because they want to expand fast to make some big money and greed alone will make this site go to shit.

    • http://vfxbyjames.info James Whiffin

      If you’d like to see some changes to the type of content being published, make sure you email Adam the editor, otherwise writers don’t have an accurate depiction of what the community would like to see more of.

  • Israel

    homer Simpson will only pay for this piece of shit

  • conna

    There are times that I’m wondering whether AE artists around the world utilize the so-called inner “imagination”.
    It’s more than obvious that this tutorial focuses on the technique rather than the artwork itself.
    I’m not a premium member but I would love to be and watch this awesome tutorial.
    There are tutors that give us the tools and the Knowledge and it’s up to us to use our imagination to enhance our projects.
    Please my friends you mustn’t become “tutorial monsters” by criticizing so badly the people who really contribute to the community.
    Thank you Mathias for your wonderful efforts and tutorials.